# Robert Herjavec

> Robert Herjavec is a seed investor at The Herjavec Group backing Food and Beverage and Retail. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [The Herjavec Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-herjavec-group)
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertherjavec
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/robertherjavec
- Website: http://www.robertherjavec.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robertherjavec007

Robert Herjavec is a seed investor at The Herjavec Group in Toronto focused on Food and Beverage and Retail. Robert Herjavec is based out of Arlington, Virginia, and is the Board of Directors of Lovelytics. Robert previously worked at CYDERES as the CEO. Robert Herjavec attended the University of Toronto. Robert Herjavec has been awarded an Emmy award.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $150k–$12M |
| Angel | $250k–$500k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 4 | 27% |
| Retail | 3 | 20% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 20% |
| Health Care | 3 | 20% |
| Pet | 2 | 13% |

40 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 47% |
| Angel | 3 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 7% |
| Series A | 1 | 7% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 73% |
| Israel | 1 | 7% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 7% |
| Australia | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The Ben Buckler | The Ben Buckler is a winery that produces wines. |  | Seed | Jul 27, 2026 |  |
| Aryon Security | Aryon Security provides a cloud security enforcement platform that helps organizations prevent security risks before they are deployed into cloud environments. The company enables security teams to define, manage, and enforce cloud security policies across infrastructure managed through infrastructure-as-code tools, command-line interfaces, cloudconsoles, and third-party services. Its platform applies preventive controls at the deployment stage, helping organizations address configuration risks before they reach production environments. The solution includes policy management, automated policy recommendations, exception handling workflows, drift monitoring, and support for multi-cloud environments. Aryon Security also offers AI-driven policy capabilities that adapt security controls to an organization’s cloud infrastructure and operational requirements, helping teams maintain governance and compliance while reducing reliance on reactive remediation processes. | $29M | Series A | Jun 10, 2026 |  |
| Lovelytics | Lovelytics is a data and analytics consultancy. We partner with people, teams, and organizations to deliver services and build solutions that drive outcomes while promoting self-sufficiency through hands-on enablement. Lovelytics partners with best-in-class technologies, such as Databricks, Tableau, Microsoft Azure, AWS, dbt, and others to deliverworld-class solutions and services. |  |  | Feb 26, 2026 |  |
| Amore Congelato | Amore Congelato provides food and beverage services. They offer products that include dessert, food, dairy-free, chocolate, vegan, plant-based, and dark chocolate. | $175K |  | Jan 13, 2026 |  |
| Wildcoat | Wildcoat is an animal-themed jacket manufacturer. These coats were created with both use and enjoyment in mind, including waterproof fabrics, helmet compatibility, and genuine animal appearances. | $350K | Angel | Dec 17, 2024 |  |
| Sweetkiwi | Home of the best tasting, mouth-watering, low fat, healthy froyo. Healthy Never Tasted Better! | $250K | Angel | Mar 10, 2023 |  |
| THEMAGIC5 | THEMAGIC5 designs custom-fit swimming goggles based on the contours of a user's face. THEMAGIC5 goggles are made to measure with optimal fitting technology for a better swimming experience. THEMAGIC5 removes the distractions that keep people from being at one with the water. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Nov 09, 2021 |  |
| FreePower | FreePower is a consumer electronics company that specializes in wireless chargers. It offers a wireless charger that can place multiple devices anywhere on the surface and they'll all charge simultaneously, no alignment needed. | $12M | Seed | Aug 03, 2021 |  |
| FreePower | FreePower is a consumer electronics company that specializes in wireless chargers. It offers a wireless charger that can place multiple devices anywhere on the surface and they'll all charge simultaneously, no alignment needed. | $500K | Angel | Oct 26, 2019 |  |
| Basepaws | Basepaws is a pet genetics company. The first company of its kind, Basepaws created a direct-to-consumer feline DNA test, focusing on delivering breed and trait information and actionable health insights. Each test reveals the genetic breakdown of the cat, with results that explain breed composition and health markers. As more owners add to thegrowing database, future reports will be able to link results with potential diseases and nutrition needs. We work closely with pet owners, veterinarians, breeders, shelters and pet nutrition companies, and will use genomic data in a variety of fields including pet nutrition and therapeutics. Our products are built on proprietary cost-saving sequencing technology which combines whole genome sequencing with the specificity of amplicon approaches. Our tests are available in various online and offline channels, and the database built will be used in creation of additional products and services, such as personalized pet food and pet health coaching. | $250K | Seed | Sep 09, 2019 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ATX Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atx-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Azure Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/azure-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BlueStel Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bluestel-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Dillon Hill Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dillon-hill-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [KEC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kec-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Partech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/partech) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About The Herjavec Group

VC Fund · Toronto, Canada

The Herjavec Group (THG) is one of Canada's fastest-growing technology companies and the country's largest IT security provider. THG delivers complete security and network acceleration services to companies around the globe, supported by Canada's largest group of certified security engineers. Their expertise enables THG to maintainits leadership position across a wide range of functions, including secure content management solutions, Email Security, WAN acceleration, intrusion prevention technologies, risk management and fully-managed network security systems.

5 contacts available at The Herjavec Group.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adam Hawkins | Vice President, Healthcare & Life Sciences; Executive Vice President, Healthcare & Life Sciences | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-hawkins-2 |
| Bobby Kuzma | Practice Director, Security Assessment & Testing | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bobby-kuzma |
| Evgeniy Kharam | Director, Network Security Solutions Architect | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evgeniy-kharam |
| Ira Goldstein | Senior Vice President of Technical Operations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ira-goldstein |
| Robert Herjavec | Founder, CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robert-herjavec |

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## FAQ

### What does Robert Herjavec invest in?

Robert Herjavec invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Retail and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Robert Herjavec's check size?

Robert Herjavec typically joins rounds of $150k–$12M at Seed and $250k–$500k at Angel. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Robert Herjavec participates in.

### When did Robert Herjavec last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Robert Herjavec closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 15 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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