Warren Katz
Angel Investor @ Techstars
Montréal, Canada
Warren Katz is a Member of the Advisory Board at Ecovent. Warren Katz is a partner and is head of the Corporate/Commercial Law Group in the Montréal office of Stikeman Elliott. Mr. Katz specializes in complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions involving both public and private companies and investment funds, public offerings, privateplacements and going private transactions.Warren is a member of the Quebec and Ontario Bars and the Law Society of Upper Canada. Mr. Katz is also member of the office's Management Committee and Business Development Committee.
- Total investments:
- 26
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 31%
Last updated:
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Industries Warren Katz invests in
Stages Warren Katz invests in
Countries Warren Katz invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (23%)
- Network Security 3 (12%)
- Information Technology 3 (12%)
- SaaS 2 (8%)
- Drones 2 (8%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 7 (27%)
- Seed 5 (19%)
- Angel 1 (4%)
- Convertible Note 1 (4%)
Country
- United States 11 (42%)
- Canada 1 (4%)
- Portugal 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| We've reached a zero to one moment when all engineers will begin to use simulation to inform their day to day work, and it will no longer just be a small number of specialists running these codes. MSBAI develops a 'Universal Interface for Simulation' called GURU — a cognitive AI assistant that enables untrained users to runspecialized simulation software. MSBAI, an Air Force Techstars 2020 company, delivers a game changing enabler for the mass adoption of simulation like never before. The broad range of GURU clients include the Air Force and Missile Defense Agency for trajectory simulation and digital engineering for aerial platform development. We are also applying GURU to minimize scenario generation time in virtual world immersive training. | $120K / Pre-Seed / Feb 10, 2020 | ||
| Cleo Robotics is developing a revolutionary new drone technology designed specifically for indoor applications. | $120K / Pre-Seed / Feb 18, 2019 | ||
| Avocado Systems is an industry-leading Application Security, IT Discovery, and Compliance company that automates the headaches out of next-generation security standards including Zero Trust, Microsegmentation, Runtime Application Security, API Security, Threat Modeling, and much more.Built by & for enterprise leaders, Avocado is designed fromthe ground up to create AppSec that works at scale in any environment. | $120K / Seed / Feb 18, 2019 | ||
| Botanisol Analytics improves measurements and analytics with engineering and science and provides agricultural biotechnology services. The company makes devices that are simple to use and clear to interpret. Its portable and durable device can be used in a wide variety of applications in the agricultural supply chain.Botanisol Analytics wasfounded in 2018 and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. | $120K / Pre-Seed / Feb 18, 2019 | ||
| FortifyEdge provides zero-trust identity and access solutions. They concentrates on cyber security, machine learning, and AI for OEMs. Additionally, they provide situational awareness of critical infrastructure, such as fixed and remote assets from perimeter monitoring, waste management, utility usage, and protection. | $120K / Pre-Seed / Feb 18, 2019 | ||
| FLITE has a laser-based technology that changes the surface topology of familiar materials (glass, plastic, metal, ceramics and semiconductors) to make them attract or repel water and oil - without the use of chemical coatings. | $120K / Pre-Seed / Feb 18, 2019 | ||
| Graphenest is a nanotechnology company that provides sustainable graphene-based coatings and plastic solutions and IP to protect electronics from electromagnetic shielding interference.Graphenest offers conductive plastics and coatings products that provide 220% more RF/EMI/EMC Shielding performance while reducing production costs bymore than 15% and weight by up to 75%. Current shielding products are based on metals that are heavy, rigid, and energy & resource-intensive.Our customers are Tier 2 and 1 component or systems manufacturers for batteries (package and electronics control), electronics (housing, IC, printable electronics, antennas), electronics/telecom (Radar, LiDAR, 5G/6G, etc), cables & wires (power and data), among other critical components.Graphenest has vertically integrated material production, formulations, and IP to incorporate into clients' products. Our clean technology to produce graphene using recycled graphite, which is highly scalable, modular, and cost-effective due to implementing a 3R approach in our process, Reduce – Reuse – Recycle and "Industry 5.0" concepts, will enable a fully circular economy. | $120K / Seed / Jan 23, 2018 | ||
| Guardion helps save lives by detecting and tracking dirty bombs in their cities. Guardion has the world's first radiation detector that exploits quantum properties of nanomaterials allowing us to build low cost, sensitive, and low power detectors uniquely capable of being deployed at a large-scale. Guardion was a winner of the $50kMassChallenge 2017 Gold Prize and Technology in Space Prize from CASIS (Center for Advancement in Science in Space) and Boeing. In early 2018, Guardion joined the inaugural cohort of the Techstars Autonomous Tech Accelerator sponsored by the Air Force. | $120K / Seed / Jan 22, 2018 | ||
| OmniPreSense is developing Smart City traffic monitoring sensors to help make our cities safer. The sensors detect excessive speeding and are networked to provide real time alerts or traffic reports. This data is easily provided to authorities for speed calming or other corrective actions. We are currently in Beta site testing of our product. Wehave validation of the market as we have had customers who are engineers buying our base radar sensor and building their own traffic monitor. Now we're building a simple to use solution for everyone. Our product is like Ring, but instead of protecting your door we protect your neighborhood.OmniPreSense was founded on 2016 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. | $120K / Seed / Jan 22, 2018 | ||
| 14bis Supply Tracking helps aerospace and defense supply chain managers reduce the risk of unapproved parts and eliminate the high admin costs caused by the current paper-based documentation practice. We provide transparency and immutable lifecycle provenance tracking and can adapt to any industry ERP platform and tagging mechanism. Selected asPrivacy/Security finalist for SXSW2018, winner of the Accenture Innovate Award for Websummit 2017 and featured startup at the Paris Air Show 2017. | $120K / Pre-Seed / Jan 17, 2018 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Techstars
Techstars offers a pre-accelerator initiative designed to equip participants with training and tools for business development. Additional offerings include three-day sessions that allow aspiring entrepreneurs to experience the process of launching a startup. The company also organizes events featuring speakers, educational sessions, and pitch competitions to support entrepreneurship. Its operations involve connecting founders with a network of mentors and peers across various technology verticals.
Techstars Contacts
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Andrew Cleland
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Artur Hasselbach
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Atlanta Daniel
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Beata Puncevic
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What does Warren Katz invest in?
Warren Katz invests primarily in Software, Network Security and Information Technology startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 26 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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