# Roger Martin

> Roger Martin is a seed investor at Martin Prosperity Institute - MPI backing SaaS and FinTech. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Martin Prosperity Institute - MPI](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/martin-prosperity-institute---mpi)
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Aug 2016
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/RogerLMartin
- Website: http://rogerlmartin.com

Roger Martin is a seed investor at Martin Prosperity Institute - MPI focused on SaaS and FinTech. Roger Martin is Premier’s Chair in Productivity & Competitiveness and Academic Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management. From 1998 to 2013, he served as Dean. Previously, he spent 13 years as a Director of Monitor Company, a global strategy consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where heserved as co-head of the firm for two years.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$5.4M |
| Series A | $5M–$7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 2 | 29% |
| FinTech | 2 | 29% |
| Finance | 2 | 29% |
| Software | 2 | 29% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 29% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 57% |
| Series A | 2 | 29% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kira Talent | Kira Talent is the world’s only holistic admissions solution designed for higher education. Founded in 2012, Kira transforms the admissions process by combining on-demand, timed video and timed written assessments with existing admissions requirements. Kira works with more than 300 programs worldwide to build applicant-first assessments thatidentify and select their best-fit students. | $5M | Series A | Aug 10, 2016 |  |
| Taplytics | Developer of a SaaS customer engagement platform designed for the world's leading enterprise brands to improve and personalize their apps, websites, and customer communication channels. The Company's platform unifies the digital customer journey, product optimization, and marketing automation in a single, AI driven application. Thisempowers modern engineering and marketing teams to create robust customer experiences, using contextual data and AI orchestration to optimize customer engagement, conversion and revenue. | $2.4M | Seed | May 20, 2015 |  |
| Kira Talent | Kira Talent is the world’s only holistic admissions solution designed for higher education. Founded in 2012, Kira transforms the admissions process by combining on-demand, timed video and timed written assessments with existing admissions requirements. Kira works with more than 300 programs worldwide to build applicant-first assessments thatidentify and select their best-fit students. | $1.2M | Seed | Mar 11, 2015 |  |
| Borrowell | Borrowell is a credit education company that offers free credit scores, education, and weekly credit monitoring. It also offers innovative digital tools like personalized credit coaching and AI-powered financial product recommendations. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. | $5.4M | Seed | Dec 03, 2014 |  |
| Wealthsimple | Wealthsimple offers financial tools to help investors grow and manage their money. Wealthsimple builds a diversified portfolio of ETFs on the investors' behalf and guides them in achieving their financial goals. Wealthsimple is backed by a team of world-class financial experts. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. | $1.4M | Seed | Sep 15, 2014 |  |
| Kira Talent | Kira Talent is the world’s only holistic admissions solution designed for higher education. Founded in 2012, Kira transforms the admissions process by combining on-demand, timed video and timed written assessments with existing admissions requirements. Kira works with more than 300 programs worldwide to build applicant-first assessments thatidentify and select their best-fit students. | $2M | Seed | Sep 25, 2013 |  |
| Work.com | Ryple is a web-based social performance management platform that helps managers and employees improve performance through continuous coaching, real-time feedback and meaningful recognition.Designed to build a transparent, results-driven work culture, Rypple replaces the traditional performance review with an easy, social and collaborativeapproach so people know where they stand and are accountable for achieving their goals.Unlike top-down enterprise performance management software, which sits on the shelf until annual review time, Rypple's quick set-up, intuitive Facebook-like interface and social environment make it easy and fun to use. Thousands of high-performing organizations use Rypple, including Facebook, Gilt Groupe, Kobo, Mozilla and Rackspace. | $7M | Series A | Sep 29, 2010 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Relay Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/relay-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [ACE & Company](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ace-and-company) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BDC Capital Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bdc-capital-corporation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BDC IT Venture Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bdc-it-venture-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BDC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bdc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bisk Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bisk-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Martin Prosperity Institute - MPI

VC Fund



1 contacts available at Martin Prosperity Institute - MPI.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Roger Martin | Chair in Productivity & Competitiveness and Academic Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roger-martin |

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## FAQ

### What does Roger Martin invest in?

Roger Martin invests primarily in SaaS, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Roger Martin's check size?

Roger Martin typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$5.4M at Seed and $5M–$7M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Roger Martin participates in.

### When did Roger Martin last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Roger Martin closed in Aug 2016. Shizune tracks 7 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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