Rick Nathan
Managing Director @ Kensington Capital Partners Limited
Toronto, Canada
Rick Nathan is a Series C investor at Kensington Capital Partners Limited in Toronto focused on Robotics and Software. Rick Nathan leads Kensington’s venture capital investment program as a Managing Director and member of the firm’s Investment Committee. His career spans many years across the private equity and venture market as an industry leader, investor and professional advisor. Rick currently serves as an active board member of several companies within theKensington venture portfolio, and as a member of the investor advisory committee of several of Canada’s leading venture funds.Rick began his career as a corporate and securities lawyer at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, where he practiced law for 12 years, including as head of the firm’s Technology Business Group from 1995 to 1999. He then entered the investment industry as a Co-founding Partner of Brightspark Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm. Rick served as President and Chair of CVCA- Canada’s Venture Capital and Private Equity Association from 2005 to 2012, and was a founding Co-Chair of CIX- Canadian Innovation Exchange from 2008 to 2016. Rick joined Kensington in 2005.Rick is a graduate of Dartmouth College (Computer Science) and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 83%
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Industries Rick Nathan invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Robotics 2 (33%)
- Software 2 (33%)
- SaaS 1 (17%)
- Mobile 1 (17%)
- Jewelry 1 (17%)
Stage
- Series C 2 (33%)
- Series A 1 (17%)
- Series B 1 (17%)
- Private Equity 1 (17%)
Investments
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| Jewlr is selling personalized jewelry such as rings, pendants and necklaces. | Private Equity / Feb 10, 2022 | ||
| Clearpath provides self-driving vehicle technology and services to over 500 of the world’s most innova-tive brands. Proprietary hardware, software, and services are delivered through the company’s industrial and research divisions: Clearpath Robotics and OTTO Motors. Visit www.clearpath.ai for more information. | $29.4M / Series C / Jun 01, 2020 | ||
| OTTO Motors, a division of Clearpath Robotics Inc. OTTO Motors provides autonomous mobile robots for material handling inside manufacturing facilities and warehouses. The vehicles operate with infrastructure-free navigation, offering intelligent, safe, efficient, and reliable transportation within industrial centers. Proprietary hardware, software,and services are delivered to provide customer excellence. | $29M / Series C / Jun 01, 2020 | ||
| Scalable, secure and hardware-agnostic, Mojio is the platform and SaaS solution provider of choice to build, launch and scale connected mobility services. Founded in 2012, Mojio has growing teams in Silicon Valley and Vancouver, and counts some of the world’s biggest brands as customers, investors and partners, including Amazon, Bosch, DeutscheTelekom, Microsoft, T-Mobile and Vivint.Mojio’s platform, apps and services deliver a smarter, safer and more convenient car ownership experience for the global driving community. With over 15 billion miles of driving data gathered from more than a million vehicles, Mojio’s big data analytics framework uses machine learning to generate actionable insights, unlocking the next generation of revenue streams for companies throughout the automotive value chain. Learn more at moj.io. Force by Mojio is the ideal GPS fleet tracking solution for small businesses that rely on their vehicles to get the job done. Learn more at forcebymojio.com | $40.2M / Series B / Feb 20, 2019 | ||
| Scalable, secure and hardware-agnostic, Mojio is the platform and SaaS solution provider of choice to build, launch and scale connected mobility services. Founded in 2012, Mojio has growing teams in Silicon Valley and Vancouver, and counts some of the world’s biggest brands as customers, investors and partners, including Amazon, Bosch, DeutscheTelekom, Microsoft, T-Mobile and Vivint.Mojio’s platform, apps and services deliver a smarter, safer and more convenient car ownership experience for the global driving community. With over 15 billion miles of driving data gathered from more than a million vehicles, Mojio’s big data analytics framework uses machine learning to generate actionable insights, unlocking the next generation of revenue streams for companies throughout the automotive value chain. Learn more at moj.io. Force by Mojio is the ideal GPS fleet tracking solution for small businesses that rely on their vehicles to get the job done. Learn more at forcebymojio.com | $23.3M / Series B / Nov 30, 2017 | ||
| Scalable, secure and hardware-agnostic, Mojio is the platform and SaaS solution provider of choice to build, launch and scale connected mobility services. Founded in 2012, Mojio has growing teams in Silicon Valley and Vancouver, and counts some of the world’s biggest brands as customers, investors and partners, including Amazon, Bosch, DeutscheTelekom, Microsoft, T-Mobile and Vivint.Mojio’s platform, apps and services deliver a smarter, safer and more convenient car ownership experience for the global driving community. With over 15 billion miles of driving data gathered from more than a million vehicles, Mojio’s big data analytics framework uses machine learning to generate actionable insights, unlocking the next generation of revenue streams for companies throughout the automotive value chain. Learn more at moj.io. Force by Mojio is the ideal GPS fleet tracking solution for small businesses that rely on their vehicles to get the job done. Learn more at forcebymojio.com | $7M / Series A / Dec 12, 2016 |
Co-Investors
Kensington Capital Partners Limited is a leading Canadian alternative investment manager founded in 1996.
Kensington Capital Partners Limited Contacts
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Rick Nathan
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Thomas Kennedy
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What does Rick Nathan invest in?
Rick Nathan invests primarily in Robotics, Software and SaaS startups, most often at Series C and Series A stage. Most of the 6 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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