# Plaza Ventures

> Plaza Ventures is a VC fund in Toronto backing Software and E-Commerce. See 21 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 21
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 5%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/plaza-ventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/plazaventures
- Website: https://plaza.ventures/

Plaza Ventures is a VC fund in Toronto focused on Software and E-Commerce. Plaza Ventures’ micro-fund model was designed to efficiently pool capital from the firms high-net-worth investor community into annual investment vehicles targeting a basket of Series A and Series B investments. These micro-funds have built a proven track record, backing successful entrepreneurs through multiple funding rounds.Half of each PVFund is allocated to new companies with proven business models ($3M+ annual revenues) that are resistant to macro-economics and need capital to meet current demand. The remaining capital is re-invested into 4-5 successful businesses from prior funds.Plaza Ventures identifies as sector agnostic but has an affinity for, as well as expertise in enterprise SaaS, location-based services, IoT, Smart City, digital media, and marketplaces.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $2.2M–$70M |
| Series B | $5M–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 43% |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 24% |
| FinTech | 4 | 19% |
| SaaS | 3 | 14% |
| Travel | 3 | 14% |

66 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 8 | 38% |
| Series B | 4 | 19% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 19% |
| Series C | 2 | 10% |
| Series D | 1 | 5% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 16 | 76% |
| United States | 2 | 10% |
| Israel | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Daniel Israelsohn | Vice President | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-israelsohn |
| Ben Mason | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-mason-24b2 |
| Daniel Brothman | Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-brothman-e3d6 |
| Matthew Leibowitz | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matthew-leibowitz-9c1e |
| Matthew Leibowitz | General Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matthew-leibowitz |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Neo Financial | Neo Financial is a Canadian financial technology company that directly issues a range of Mastercard credit cards and offers CDIC-insured chequing and savings accounts through partnerships with regulated banks. To help Canadians improve their credit scores, Neo uniquely offers all its cards, including its premium ones, as secured cards. Beyond corebanking, Neo operates a proprietary rewards network of over 11,000 merchant partners, allowing users to earn cashback on everyday spending. | $50.2M | Series D | Feb 03, 2026 |  |
| SenseNet Inc. | sensenet provides an integrated Internet-of-Things (IoT) system that revolutionises data collection and analysis for large-scale IoT applications, with a focus on early wildfire detection to protect public communities and private industries from the destructive effects of wildfires. The installation of their IoT system as a wildfire monitoring andprotection belt is part of this pilot project. | $14M | Series A | Oct 22, 2025 |  |
| Super.com | Super.com is the savings super app for everyday Americans. The app helps customers save across travel, entertainment, financial services, and daily spending. The Super+ membership supercharges the app. Members get 10% cashback on hotels, unlock financial tools like cash advances and credit building, and much more. Since 2016, Super.com hasdelivered more than $1 billion in savings. Learn more at Super.com | $60M | Series C | Apr 24, 2023 |  |
| Super.com | Super.com is the savings super app for everyday Americans. The app helps customers save across travel, entertainment, financial services, and daily spending. The Super+ membership supercharges the app. Members get 10% cashback on hotels, unlock financial tools like cash advances and credit building, and much more. Since 2016, Super.com hasdelivered more than $1 billion in savings. Learn more at Super.com | $25M | Debt Financing | Apr 24, 2023 |  |
| 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. | $41M |  | Nov 17, 2022 |  |
| 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. | $42M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 17, 2022 |  |
| KERV Interactive | KERV is a digital advertising platform built on cutting-edge patented technology that identifies objects by their pixel edges in any video stream. | $12M |  | May 25, 2022 |  |
| Busbud | Busbud is a mobile app and platform that connects passengers to bus operators. It enables its users to search, compare, and book city-to-city bus tickets for any location and from any location. It is a comprehensive source of city-to-city bus schedules and tickets around the world, gathering schedules for over 10463 cities in 89 countries, in 10languages, and 15 currencies. The app offers a search tool allowing travelers to discover and plan their next bus trip.Busbud was founded by Michael Gradek, LP Maurice, and Frederic Thouin in October 2011. It is headquartered in Montreal City in Québec, Canada. | $11.2M | Series C | Sep 29, 2020 |  |
| Iguazio | The Iguazio Data Science Platform enables enterprises to develop, deploy and manage AI applications at scale. With Iguazio, enterprises can run AI models in real time, deploy them anywhere; multi-cloud, on-prem or edge, and bring to life their most ambitious data-driven strategies. Iguazio is backed by top financial and strategic investors and ledby serial entrepreneurs and a diverse team of innovators in the USA, UK, Singapore and Israel. | $24M |  | Jan 27, 2020 |  |
| LANDR | LANDR is a leading AI-powered music production platform that empowers artists to create, distribute, and monetize their work. With a global community of over 6 million musicians, It provides cutting-edge tools and services to enhance music production and distribution. | $13.9M | Series B | Jul 16, 2019 |  |

10 of 21 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Inovia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inovia-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Export Development Canada](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/export-development-canada) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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- [BDC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bdc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Plaza Ventures invest in?

Plaza Ventures invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and FinTech startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 21 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Plaza Ventures's check size?

Plaza Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.2M–$70M at Series A and $5M–$30M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Plaza Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Plaza Ventures?

Public channels for Plaza Ventures 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 Plaza Ventures?

The team at Plaza Ventures includes Daniel Israelsohn (Vice President), Ben Mason (Associate) and Daniel Brothman (Managing Partner), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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