# Ron Warburton

> Ron Warburton is a Series A investor at BDC IT Venture Fund backing Software and Big Data. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [BDC IT Venture Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bdc-it-venture-fund)
- Location: Ottawa, Canada
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Feb 2015
- Lead investor: 30%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ron-warburton/b/696/a79

Ron Warburton is a Series A investor at BDC IT Venture Fund in Ottawa focused on Software and Big Data. Ron Warburton is the Managing Partner at BDC IT Venture Fund.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 50% |
| Big Data | 4 | 40% |
| Analytics | 3 | 30% |
| Enterprise Software | 3 | 30% |
| SaaS | 2 | 20% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 30% |
| Seed | 2 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 20% |
| Series D | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 6 | 60% |
| United States | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Solink | Solink is a data-driven security platform that captures and audits 100% video and transactional data to reduce fraud proactively. Solink’s unique Video Discovery application allows users to search for any event, putting an end to manually retrieving evidence by time and location. For a monthly fee, the platform provides everything users need tocollect, analyze, investigate and manage their data. Solink’s fraud prevention as a service offering is the first one of its kind to be data driven instead of incident driven. | $5M |  | Nov 01, 2017 |  |
| Hubdoc | Hubdoc is changing the way accountants and bookkeepers work. Our platform leverages cloud computing and machine learning to automate financial document collection and processing – helping customers save time, scale their practice and build deeper relationships with the small businesses they serve. | $4.3M | Seed | Jun 21, 2017 |  |
| Axonify | Axonify provides eLearning software, interval reinforcement solutions, and gamified learning. Using principles of interval reinforcement and incorporating the realities of how emerging workforces learn in today’s environment, Axonify enables its customers to make training stick and improve employee performance. | $27M |  | Nov 01, 2016 |  |
| CENX | CENX, provides interconnect services for the new generation of Ethernet-based backhaul networks. Awarded by multiple leading publications for its innovation, CENX's Ethernet Backhaul Management Service aggregates and translates different Ethernet backhaul services from multiple access providers to all cell sites in a given market. CENXprovides a normalized Carrier Ethernet handoff to a given wireless provider enabling ubiquitous 4G-LTE Ethernet backhaul coverage to all cell sites in that market. CENX manages the entire circuit life cycle, yielding better quality of service, reduced CapEx and a level of monitoring of Ethernet Backhaul service traffic that has not been feasible previously. CENX's investors include its management and a number of leading firms, including DCM (whose co-founder, Dixon Doll, is the Chairman of the CENX Board of Directors), Highland Capital Partners and Mesirow Financial. Through its work in the MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum) and in the industry, the CENX management team has played a critical role in the definition of standards and the development of the Carrier Ethernet market over the past ten years. | $12.5M | Series D | Aug 11, 2015 |  |
| Klipfolio | Our mission is to help people succeed with data. We believe in empowering you to make better decisions by eliminating the unknown. Take control of your data and be stronger, better, and more competitive every day. Klipfolio is the new way people and their teams make informed decisions leveraging team-based BI, dashboards, and reporting. Fromstartups to Fortune 500 teams, Klipfolio provides the power and flexibility you always wanted. Succeed with data and start for free. | $6.2M | Series A | Feb 25, 2015 |  |
| Klipfolio | Our mission is to help people succeed with data. We believe in empowering you to make better decisions by eliminating the unknown. Take control of your data and be stronger, better, and more competitive every day. Klipfolio is the new way people and their teams make informed decisions leveraging team-based BI, dashboards, and reporting. Fromstartups to Fortune 500 teams, Klipfolio provides the power and flexibility you always wanted. Succeed with data and start for free. | $1.2M | Seed | Feb 16, 2014 |  |
| Klipfolio | Our mission is to help people succeed with data. We believe in empowering you to make better decisions by eliminating the unknown. Take control of your data and be stronger, better, and more competitive every day. Klipfolio is the new way people and their teams make informed decisions leveraging team-based BI, dashboards, and reporting. Fromstartups to Fortune 500 teams, Klipfolio provides the power and flexibility you always wanted. Succeed with data and start for free. | $1.2M | Seed | Feb 16, 2014 |  |
| Analyze Re | Founded in 2013, our vision is to revolutionize and modernize the way that reinsurers analyze their data. We do this by offering a high-performance-computing framework which takes care of the common data processing needs that reinsurers have. | $1M | Series A | Nov 05, 2013 |  |
| Axonify | Axonify provides eLearning software, interval reinforcement solutions, and gamified learning. Using principles of interval reinforcement and incorporating the realities of how emerging workforces learn in today’s environment, Axonify enables its customers to make training stick and improve employee performance. |  |  |  |  |
| CloudLink Tech | CloudLink® Technologies (formerly AFORE solutions) is a leading provider of advanced data security and encryption management products. Enterprises and service providers trust CloudLink to secure mission-critical data and sensitive customer information in multi-tenant private, public and hybrid clouds. CloudLink is certified by world-recognizedleaders in cloud technologies like AWS™, EMC®, RSA®, VCE® and VMware®. For more information, visit www.cloudlinktech.com |  | Series A |  |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [BDC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bdc-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Mistral Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mistral-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Acadia Woods Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acadia-woods-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [CVP Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/commonangels) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [BDC Capital Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bdc-capital-corporation) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [boldstart ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boldstart-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About BDC IT Venture Fund

VC Fund · Toronto, Canada

BDC IT Venture Fund is a venture capital firm that invests in emerging and mid-stage Internet, mobile and enterprise companies in Canada. Its initial investment typically ranges from $2M to $5M in Series A or B rounds with up to $15M invested over the life of the company.

5 contacts available at BDC IT Venture Fund.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Denisia Pereira | Senior Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/denisia-pereira |
| Robert Simon | Senior Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robert-simon |
| Ron Warburton | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ron-warburton |
| Saif Hashmi | Principal, Seed Fund and IT Venture Fund | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/saif-hashmi |
| Steven Abrams | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steven-abrams |

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## FAQ

### What does Ron Warburton invest in?

Ron Warburton invests primarily in Software, Big Data and Analytics startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Ron Warburton last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ron Warburton closed in Feb 2015. Shizune tracks 10 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?

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