# Scott MacDonald

> Scott MacDonald is a Series A investor at McRock Capital backing Software and Internet of Things. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [McRock Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mcrock-capital)
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 54%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/scott-macdonald/0/2b/25
- Website: https://x.com/scottymacvc

Scott MacDonald is a Series A investor at McRock Capital in Toronto focused on Software and Internet of Things. Scott MacDonald is based out of Toronto, Ontario and is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of McRock Capital. Scott previously worked at SkySpecs as a Board Member. Scott MacDonald attended the Dalhousie University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 46% |
| Internet of Things | 4 | 31% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 31% |
| Analytics | 3 | 23% |
| Manufacturing | 3 | 23% |

37 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 38% |
| Series B | 4 | 31% |
| Series C | 2 | 15% |
| Series D | 1 | 8% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 5 | 38% |
| United States | 4 | 31% |
| Spain | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| OneLayer | OneLayer provides enterprise-grade security for private LTE/5G networks. | $28M | Series A | Oct 16, 2025 |  |
| Worldsensing | Worldsensing is a market leader in Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. The company has built on its expertise in low-power wireless sensing networks and has created comprehensive vertical solutions in sectors where IoT is making a measurable impact.The company focuses on two key markets:Mobility - a unique smart traffic management portfolioincludes Bitcarrier, a real-time traffic flo management solution, and Fastprk, its market-leading smart parking system. Industrial Solutions - offers the LS-G6 platform to monitor key assets in remote or hard-to-access locations. Examples include bridges, tunnels, large public buildings and infrastructures, mines, power lines. Worldsensing raised its round of seed capital in 2010. A series A round was closed in 2013 with Fundación Jose Manuel Entrecanales (FJME) and IESE Business School's Finaves fund as investors. A series B round was completed in 2015, led by FJME, Kibo Ventures and Mitsui & Co. Cisco Ventures and Endeavor also participated in this round.Today, the company has offices in Barcelona and London and has a team of more than 40 professionals. Awards -Fastprk- has won two major awards: the Stockholm Smart City Living Labs Global Award 2011 and the IBM Smart Camp 2010 London Award. -Bitcarrier was IBM Smart Camp Winner (2011), and it has been recognised by Analyst Firm Gartner as "Cool Vendor 2013". -Ignasi Vilajosana, Worldsensing’s CEO, was named the first Spanish Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2014. |  | Series D | Mar 22, 2023 |  |
| LandingAI | Landing AI empowers customers to harness the business value of AI by providing enablement tools and transformation programs. One of the company’s core products is LandingLens, an end-to-end AI platform specifically designed for industrial customers to build, deploy and scale AI-powered visual inspection solutions. Founded by one of the mostrecognizable names in AI, Dr. Andrew Ng, (founding lead of the Google Brain team and former Chief Scientist at Baidu), and a world class team, Landing AI is uniquely positioned to help companies across the globe successfully move their AI projects from proof-of-concept to full-scale production. Additional information is available at: www.landing.ai. | $57M | Series A | Nov 08, 2021 |  |
| Triax Technologies | At Triax Technologies it is our mission to transform the most challenging work environments and industries through intelligent, innovative technology and real-time data collection and analytics to make worksites run safer, faster, and smarter.To achieve this, they deliver a fully connected Internet of Things (IoT) platform through a proprietarycommunication hub designed for Construction, Oil & Gas, Energy, Heavy Industrial, and other challenging IT environments. Their flagship Spot-r system elevates worksite visibility, safety, security, and risk, connecting workers, equipment, and operations through a scalable, minimal infrastructure network, wearable and sensor devices, and a cloud-based dashboard. By providing real-time, data-driven visibility into site access, worker and equipment location, manpower, safety incidents, and evacuation and muster procedures, Spot-r enable actionable insights, helping firms streamline processes and work safer and smarter. In April 2020, we launched Proximity Trace, an IoT solution that provides proximity distancing alerts and contact tracing for the workplace. The solution offers added protection for essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic and helps companies get workers back to work safely while addressing recommended social distancing practices. More information can be found at: https://www.triaxtec.com/ | $12.5M | Series A | Jun 17, 2021 |  |
| Poka | Poka is a Web and mobile app that gives factory workers the power to capture, consume and share critical information in real-time on the plant floor, leading to improved productivity. By creating a standardized multimedia knowledge base of procedures, training content and solutions related to each workstation and machine, Poka helps reduceproduction downtime, improve quality and safety, and facilitate communication across factories, departments and shifts.Poka has become a catalyst for digital transformation among industrial leaders including 12 of the largest manufacturers based on IndustryWeek’s Global 1000 rank. | $24.8M | Series B | Jun 07, 2021 |  |
| Invixium | Invixium is a leading global provider of touchless biometric solutions that utilize face recognition and temperature detection for access control, workforce management, and visitor screening. Invixium’s fully integrated hardware and software solution provides meaningful analytics to enterprises and industries for increased safety, health, securityand productivity.During these unprecedented times, the security of organizations and the health of employees are ever so important. As countries ease lockdowns and plan for a return to the workplace, Invixium has been hard at work developing solutions to solve real-world problems at a rapid pace. By focusing on touchless biometric solutions that ensure the safety and security of the enterprise as well as the employee’s peace of mind; and by implementing technologies like fever detection, Invixium is leading the change into the new world of access control and workforce management. Our razor-sharp focus on enhancing the customer experience has driven us to devote countless hours to perfect our enterprise-grade software platform – IXM WEB. With intuitive workflows and data-driven dashboards, the software provides a comprehensive summary and health of your biometric system. Innovative features within the software, including IXM Time, Health, Link, Convert, and Translate, are designed to optimize enterprises’ access control or workforce management systems to be more efficient and productive.Invixium’s management team has a combined experience of more than 200 years in the biometric access control industry. This extensive experience manifests itself in everything that we have to offer. Invixium’s solutions have been deployed by major enterprises and industries across a broad spectrum of verticals including government, banking, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, refineries, seaports, mining, and higher education in over 60 countries. Invixium products are proudly Made in Canada. | $3M | Series C | Jun 08, 2020 |  |
| ThoughtTrace | ThoughtTrace™ exists to empower people and companies to greater insight and creativity through better access to their most challenging information. We help enterprises review and validate critical information in existing contracts and legal documents. Using artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing, and machine learning, our SaaSplatform, ALI™ reads words, sentences, and paragraphs just like a human does, driving better strategy, decisions, and execution. With results in minutes or hours, not weeks or months, advanced analysis and understanding is your edge. | $10M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 20, 2020 |  |
| SkySpecs | SkySpecs automates the inspection, diagnostics, and maintenance of utility scale wind turbines with custom autonomous drones. The company develops an affordable form of energy, through the use of an automated drone inspection service and analytics platform that allows for repeatability, high-quality data, and safer inspections.SkySpecs wasfounded on 2012 and is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. | $17M | Series C | Dec 21, 2019 |  |
| Decisive Farming | Decisive Farming provides information technology solutions for farming industry in Western Canada. Its solutions include Optimize-RX, a variable rate technology and precision agronomy service for applications in the areas of fertility, seeding, fungicide, and top dressing; Sure-Check soil testing for soil testing applications; Know-Risk, a farmmanagement and crop marketing program; and My Farm Manager, which handles farm information in the areas of precision agronomy, crop management, and farm-risk management. Decisive Farming helps clients to make decisions on precision agronomics, variable rate technology, soil fertility, crop marketing, risk management, data management, and carbon credits. Garth Donald founded it in 2011, with its headquarters in Irricana in Canada. |  | Series B | Jun 10, 2019 |  |
| Invixium | Invixium is a leading global provider of touchless biometric solutions that utilize face recognition and temperature detection for access control, workforce management, and visitor screening. Invixium’s fully integrated hardware and software solution provides meaningful analytics to enterprises and industries for increased safety, health, securityand productivity.During these unprecedented times, the security of organizations and the health of employees are ever so important. As countries ease lockdowns and plan for a return to the workplace, Invixium has been hard at work developing solutions to solve real-world problems at a rapid pace. By focusing on touchless biometric solutions that ensure the safety and security of the enterprise as well as the employee’s peace of mind; and by implementing technologies like fever detection, Invixium is leading the change into the new world of access control and workforce management. Our razor-sharp focus on enhancing the customer experience has driven us to devote countless hours to perfect our enterprise-grade software platform – IXM WEB. With intuitive workflows and data-driven dashboards, the software provides a comprehensive summary and health of your biometric system. Innovative features within the software, including IXM Time, Health, Link, Convert, and Translate, are designed to optimize enterprises’ access control or workforce management systems to be more efficient and productive.Invixium’s management team has a combined experience of more than 200 years in the biometric access control industry. This extensive experience manifests itself in everything that we have to offer. Invixium’s solutions have been deployed by major enterprises and industries across a broad spectrum of verticals including government, banking, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, refineries, seaports, mining, and higher education in over 60 countries. Invixium products are proudly Made in Canada. | $665K | Series B | May 21, 2019 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Connecticut Innovations](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/connecticut-innovations) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Altira Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altira-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Business Development Bank of Canada](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/business-development-bank-of-canada) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Chevron Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chevron-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Export Development Canada](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/export-development-canada) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [40 North Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/40-north-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About McRock Capital

VC Fund · Toronto, Canada

McRock Capital specializes in growth capital and later-stage investing in intelligent infrastructure companies.It focuses on power, water, oil and gas, transportation, and building efficiency sectors. It seeks to make investments in companies offering Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) software and sensor solutions for grid automation, digitaloilfield, advanced manufacturing, and smart city markets. The firm targets large industrial and internet markets and the intersection of sensors and software in large industrial markets and seeks companies involved in innovative software, hardware, and device integrated solutions. Scott McDonald and Whitney Rockley founded McRock Capital in March 2012. It has its headquarters in Toronto, Ontario with an additional office in Calgary therein.

5 contacts available at McRock Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Josee Bertrand | Head of Finance & Operations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/josee-bertrand |
| Scott MacDonald | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scott-macdonald |
| Siddharth Srivastava | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/siddharth-srivastava-8ffd |
| Udit Bhatnagar | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/udit-bhatnagar |
| Amit Chaturvedy | Limited Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amit-chaturvedy |

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## FAQ

### What does Scott MacDonald invest in?

Scott MacDonald invests primarily in Software, Internet of Things and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Scott MacDonald last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Scott MacDonald closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 13 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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