Ray Sharma
Founding Partner @ Extreme Venture Partners
Toronto, Canada
Ray Sharma is a veteran of the mobile technology sector. Ray Sharma’s industry accomplishments include: #1 ranked wireless technology analyst based on Greenwich and Brendan Woods International surveys of fund managers for five of eight eligible years; visionary research on the mobile device representing the next evolutionary wave of computing;leading the most successful tech IPO in Canadian capital markets history; one of the world’s first BlackBerry users. Ray Sharma is considered a leading authority in the current evolution of the mobile application layer.Previously Ray Sharma spent over 11 years in technology investment banking research, including positions at the CSFB Technology Group, BMO Nesbitt Burns, and most recently GMP Capital Trust. Ray Sharma has a degree in Business Administration from the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.
- Total investments:
- 3
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
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Industries Ray Sharma invests in
Stages Ray Sharma invests in
Countries Ray Sharma invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 1 (33%)
- Insurance 1 (33%)
- Financial Services 1 (33%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (33%)
- Series A 1 (33%)
Investments
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Foxquilt
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Foxquilt is an Insurance technology company focused on empowering small businesses and B2B networks to save on Small Business insurance. | $8M / Series A / Sep 16, 2021 | |
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Foxquilt
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Foxquilt is an Insurance technology company focused on empowering small businesses and B2B networks to save on Small Business insurance. | $2.6M / Seed / Jul 07, 2020 | |
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Foxquilt
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Foxquilt is an Insurance technology company focused on empowering small businesses and B2B networks to save on Small Business insurance. | $878K / Seed / Oct 18, 2018 |
Co-Investors
About Extreme Venture Partners
Extreme Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in start-up, early and seed stage investments. It seeks to invest in technology with focus on internet, mobile application, cloud computing, and big data that include machine learning, open public databases and analytics and the "Internet-of-things" including robotics,drones, wearable tech, and connected devices. Extreme Venture Partners seeks to invest in Canada with focus on Toronto-Waterloo corridor. It invests in businesses which are pre-revenue or expanding. It seeks to make equity investment in companies between CAD.05 million ($.04 million) and CAD.1 million (.08 million). Imran Bashir, Ken Teslia, Ray Sharma, and Sunil Sharma founded Extreme Venture Partners in 2007. It has its headquarters in Toronto in Canada.
Extreme Venture Partners Contacts
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Ray Sharma
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Ian Ainsworth
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What does Ray Sharma invest in?
Ray Sharma invests primarily in FinTech, Insurance and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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.
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The most recent investment recorded for Ray Sharma closed in Sep 2021. 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.
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