# YUL Ventures

> YUL Ventures is a VC fund in Montréal backing SaaS and Machine Learning. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Montréal, Canada
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Jul 2019
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/yulventures/about/
- Website: http://www.yulventures.com

YUL Ventures is an early stage private fund that is sponsored by entrepreneurs and invests in technology businesses. The company is situated in Canada and it was founded in 2013 by Pascal Pilon

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $421k–$2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 2 | 22% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 22% |
| Productivity Tools | 2 | 22% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 22% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 22% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 44% |
| Series A | 1 | 11% |
| Series B | 1 | 11% |
| Series C | 1 | 11% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 4 | 44% |
| United States | 1 | 11% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pascal Pilon | President and Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pascal-pilon |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LANDR | LANDR is a leading AI-powered music production platform that empowers artists to create, distribute, and monetize their work. With a global community of over 6 million musicians, It provides cutting-edge tools and services to enhance music production and distribution. | $13.9M | Series B | Jul 16, 2019 |  |
| Sonder | Sonder is revolutionizing hospitality through innovative, tech-powered service and inspiring, thoughtfully designed accommodations combined into one seamlessly managed experience. Officially launched in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, Sonder is making a world of better stays open to all with a variety of accommodation options — from roomsto suites and apartments — found in more than 30 cities spanning eight countries and three continents. Sonder’s innovative app empowers guests by making self-service features and 24/7 on-the-ground support just a tap away. From simple self check-in to boutique bathroom amenities, we bring the best of a hotel without any of the formality. | $85M | Series C | Aug 23, 2018 |  |
| Unito | Unito is taking on a major problem that people are passionate about solving: they make it easier to collaborate across teams. They don't make users learn new tools and change the way they work. By connecting work management tools, they allow managers, cross-functional teams, departments, and entire companies to benefit from seamlesscollaboration and improved communication. The app syncs projects across a number of tools like Trello, Asana, JIRA, GitHub, Wrike, Zendesk & Hubspot. This is a hard problem of semantics, synchronization, and APIs. | $2M | Seed | May 09, 2018 |  |
| Luffa Technologies | Luffa is a technology startup based in Montreal, Canada.We believe that combining voice technologies and artificial intelligence, captured conversations will become a powerful and practical way of tapping into the organization’s collective knowledge. So we created the Luffa platform to transform the way meetings are run. |  | Seed | Jan 05, 2018 |  |
| Unito | Unito is taking on a major problem that people are passionate about solving: they make it easier to collaborate across teams. They don't make users learn new tools and change the way they work. By connecting work management tools, they allow managers, cross-functional teams, departments, and entire companies to benefit from seamlesscollaboration and improved communication. The app syncs projects across a number of tools like Trello, Asana, JIRA, GitHub, Wrike, Zendesk & Hubspot. This is a hard problem of semantics, synchronization, and APIs. | $421K | Seed | Feb 24, 2016 |  |
| LANDR | LANDR is a leading AI-powered music production platform that empowers artists to create, distribute, and monetize their work. With a global community of over 6 million musicians, It provides cutting-edge tools and services to enhance music production and distribution. | $4.5M | Series A | Jun 29, 2015 |  |
| XpertSea | XpertSea is a Canadian technology company that's transforming how the global aquaculture industry farms seafood to help feed the world. Combining smart aquaculture equipment with a farm management platform, our collaborative solution uncovers actionable insights driven by artificial intelligence. These insights enable farmers and industryexperts to optimize feed efficiency, reduce environmental waste, take preventive actions against diseases and use data to bring transparency and knowledge to the entire supply chain. With customers in over 50 countries, we’re using Canadian ingenuity to make aquaculture profitable and sustainable. | $1.3M | Seed | May 08, 2015 |  |
| LANDR | LANDR is a leading AI-powered music production platform that empowers artists to create, distribute, and monetize their work. With a global community of over 6 million musicians, It provides cutting-edge tools and services to enhance music production and distribution. | $1.8M | Convertible Note | May 01, 2014 |  |
| LANDR | LANDR is a leading AI-powered music production platform that empowers artists to create, distribute, and monetize their work. With a global community of over 6 million musicians, It provides cutting-edge tools and services to enhance music production and distribution. | $1.1M | Seed | Jun 01, 2013 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Real Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/real-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Anges Quebec](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anges-quebec) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Plus Eight Equity Fund LP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/plus-eight-equity-fund-lp) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Warner Music Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/warner-music-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fonds de solidarité FTQ](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fonds-de-solidarit-ftq) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does YUL Ventures invest in?

YUL Ventures invests primarily in SaaS, Machine Learning and Productivity Tools startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is YUL Ventures's check size?

YUL Ventures typically joins rounds of $421k–$2M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds YUL Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact YUL Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at YUL Ventures?

The team at YUL Ventures includes Pascal Pilon (President and Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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