# Sheldon Elman

> Sheldon Elman is a seed investor at Esplanade Ventures backing Artificial Intelligence. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Esplanade Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/esplanade-ventures)
- Location: Montréal, Canada
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Nov 2023
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-sheldon-elman-50741a27/

Sheldon Elman is a seed investor at Esplanade Ventures in Montréal focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Sheldon Elman is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Esplanade Ventures.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 50% |
| Software | 2 | 33% |
| Health Care | 2 | 33% |
| VoIP | 1 | 17% |
| Training | 1 | 17% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 83% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tali AI | Tali AI is an impact-oriented company that provides physicians with a voice-enabled virtual assistant that is placed over their electronic health records. The system dictates notes directly into the EHR to add information about patients and drugs. The company's contact mode is at its physical address. |  | Seed | Nov 08, 2023 | https://tali.ai/ |
| Impro | Impro is a technology platform that enables action-based coaching at scale. | $1.7M | Seed | Jun 21, 2022 | https://impro.ai |
| Babbly | Babbly is building the world's largest data platform to help parents monitor and support their child's development. Our first product is a mobile app that lets parents track their baby's speech development using a video recording of their child. | $2.5M | Seed | Jun 10, 2022 | http://Babbly.co |
| BrainBox AI | BrainBox AI utilizes cloud-based computing, algorithms, and a proprietary process to create an autonomous building technology. The company's solution supports 24/7 self-operating building that enables maximum energy efficiency and reduces cost. BrainBox AI was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. | $24M | Series A | Oct 28, 2021 | https://www.brainboxai.com/ |
| KixCare | KixCare is a Canadian pediatric virtual healthcare platform. The platform connects families and their children with pediatric telehealth services and aims to enable equitable access to quality care for all Canadian children. | $1.6M | Seed | Oct 12, 2021 | https://www.kixcare.com/ |
| BrainBox AI | BrainBox AI utilizes cloud-based computing, algorithms, and a proprietary process to create an autonomous building technology. The company's solution supports 24/7 self-operating building that enables maximum energy efficiency and reduces cost. BrainBox AI was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. | $8.6M | Seed | Apr 28, 2020 | https://www.brainboxai.com/ |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Desjardins Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/desjardins-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [well health ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/well-health-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ABB](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abb) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate and Social Impact](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amfam-institute-impact-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [DigiTx Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/digitx-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Good News Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/good-news-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Esplanade Ventures

VC Fund · Montréal, Canada

Esplanade focuses on early stage and high-growth companies within digital health and primarily invest in Seed and Series A companies, with a geographic focus on North America, Israel and Europe. Our team is composed of healthcare practitioners, operators and founders. Esplanade empowers innovative digital health companies by supplementing capitalwith active strategic direction, business development and distribution channel support.

5 contacts available at Esplanade Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ella Seitz | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ella-seitz |
| Alexandre Nossovskoi | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexandre-nossovskoi |
| Daniel Warner | Entrepreneur In Residence | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-warner |
| Jeffrey Kadanoff | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeffrey-kadanoff |
| Josh Blair | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/josh-blair |

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## FAQ

### What does Sheldon Elman invest in?

Sheldon Elman invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Health Care startups, most often at Seed 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.

### How do I contact Sheldon Elman?

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### When did Sheldon Elman last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sheldon Elman closed in Nov 2023. Shizune tracks 6 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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