Sam Haffar
Partner @ Real Ventures
Montréal, Canada
Sam Haffar is a Series A investor at Real Ventures in Montréal focused on SaaS and Sales. Sam joins us from Silicon Valley where he has actively been involved in starting and growing top tech companies for nearly a decade. Only six months after launching his first company while in university, Sam was offered a founding team role at Chegg, a leading education technology company where he drove many of the key growth initiatives andmarketing strategies, Chegg went public in 2013. After Chegg, Sam ran marketing Kno, an education technology company backed by Andreessen Horowitz that creates engaging digital learning technologies, the company was later acquired by Intel. Before making the move to Montreal, Sam ran marketing and sales for EAT Club, a fast growing venture backed food tech company that provides enterprise catering solutions for companies.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
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Industries Sam Haffar invests in
Stages Sam Haffar invests in
Countries Sam Haffar invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 2 (25%)
- Sales 2 (25%)
- Software 2 (25%)
- Information Technology 2 (25%)
- Apps 1 (13%)
Stage
- Series A 5 (63%)
- Seed 3 (38%)
Country
- Canada 4 (50%)
- United States 1 (13%)
Investments
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| Uvaro's career success platform includes training, paid experience, advancement and ongoing coaching to ensure long-term career success. Our training program includes on-demand and live classes, our virtual internships let companies hire talent based on performance, our coaching and mentorship network drive ongoing career growth. Our averagestudent lands their new role in less than 17 days from graduation at more than 2x their previous income, and in their new roles achieve 50% more sales than their peers. | $10.6M / Series A / Nov 03, 2021 | ||
| Uvaro's career success platform includes training, paid experience, advancement, and ongoing coaching to ensure long-term career success. Their training program includes on-demand and live classes. Their virtual internships let companies hire talent based on performance. Their coaching and mentorship network drive ongoing career growth. | $12M / Series A / Nov 03, 2021 | ||
| Uvaro's career success platform includes training, paid experience, advancement and ongoing coaching to ensure long-term career success. Our training program includes on-demand and live classes, our virtual internships let companies hire talent based on performance, our coaching and mentorship network drive ongoing career growth. Our averagestudent lands their new role in less than 17 days from graduation at more than 2x their previous income, and in their new roles achieve 50% more sales than their peers. | $1.6M / Seed / Sep 01, 2020 | ||
| Uvaro's career success platform includes training, paid experience, advancement, and ongoing coaching to ensure long-term career success. Their training program includes on-demand and live classes. Their virtual internships let companies hire talent based on performance. Their coaching and mentorship network drive ongoing career growth. | $1.6M / Seed / Sep 01, 2020 | ||
| RenoRun is building the world's largest single source platform for general contractors to purchase materials. Their mobile-friendly platform is a one-stop-shop when it comes to construction material supply. This app is revolutionizing the construction industry by maximizing productivity, saving contractors wasted run-around hours, and allowingtheir clients to leave their competition in the dust. Their trained runners will collect and deliver the desired materials to the job site.RenoRun was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with offices in Toronto and Austin, Texas. | $17.1M / Series A / Nov 01, 2019 | ||
| RenoRun is building the world's largest single source platform for general contractors to purchase materials. Their mobile-friendly platform is a one-stop-shop when it comes to construction material supply. This app is revolutionizing the construction industry by maximizing productivity, saving contractors wasted run-around hours, and allowingtheir clients to leave their competition in the dust. Their trained runners will collect and deliver the desired materials to the job site.RenoRun was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with offices in Toronto and Austin, Texas. | $3M / Seed / Feb 01, 2019 | ||
| Looka is an AI-powered design platform that helps entrepreneurs bring their brand to life with beautiful design — and brings the experience of sitting next to a designer online. | $4.6M / Series A / Nov 15, 2018 | ||
| LoginRadius is a leading cloud-based Consumer Identity and Access Management solution that empowers businesses to provide a seamless experience for their consumers. The developer-friendly Identity Platform comes with a comprehensive set of APIs to enable authentication, identity verification, single sign-on (SSO), user management, and accountprotection capabilities such as MFA on web and mobile applications.The company offers open source SDKs, integrations with over 150 third-party applications, pre-designed, and customizable login interfaces, and top-notch data security products. The platform is currently utilized by over 3000 business organizations and has a monthly reach of 1.17 billion consumers worldwide.The company has been named as an industry player in Consumer Identity and Access Management (CIAM), by Gartner, KuppingerCole, and Computer Weekly. Microsoft is a major technology partner and investor. | $17M / Series A / Jul 25, 2018 |
Co-Investors
About Real Ventures
Real Ventures is an early-stage venture firm focused on serving daring entrepreneurs with the ambition to create successful, global companies. Since 2007, Real Ventures has dedicated itself to building the Canadian startup ecosystem on the belief that people, not money, build game-changing companies. Real Ventures provides stage-specific guidance,mentorship, and access to networks and resources to fast-track founders’ personal and company growth. Real Ventures manages $325 million across five funds and its active portfolio of 100+ companies is currently valued at $10 billion. www.realventures.com
Real Ventures Contacts
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John Stokes
Managing Partner
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Sam Haffar
Partner
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Alan MacIntosh
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Craig Follett
Limited Partner (Investor)
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Hamzah Nassif
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What does Sam Haffar invest in?
Sam Haffar invests primarily in SaaS, Sales and Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 8 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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