Discovery Capital

Discovery Capital Corporation was a venture capital firm based in Port Coquitlam, Canada, founded in 1986. The firm specialized in seed, startup, early, and late-stage investments, focusing on companies located in British Columbia. Its investment portfolio included sectors such as information technology, with an emphasis on hardware and software, communications, particularly in wireless and networking solutions, and health and life sciences, concentrating on biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. Additionally, Discovery Capital targeted advanced technologies related to environmental and energy solutions, including clean technology and alternative energy sources. The firm aimed for successful exits from its investments, typically through initial public offerings or sales of portfolio companies, and was committed to supporting small businesses that qualified under the Small Business Venture Capital Act.

Charles Cook

Partner

18 past transactions

One97 Communications

Series G in 2019
One97 Communications Limited is a mobile payments services company based in Noida, India, founded in 2000. It operates under the Paytm brand, offering a comprehensive range of mobile content and commerce services. The company provides digital goods and services, including top-ups, ticket bookings, hotel reservations, music, videos, games, and other mobile content. Additionally, One97 Communications is a leading provider of payment solutions for e-commerce merchants, utilizing its RBI-approved semi-closed wallet. With a workforce of over 4,500 employees, the company has a wide geographical footprint, with regional offices in major Indian cities such as Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune, Chennai, and Kolkata, as well as a global presence in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.

Cardlytics

Series G in 2017
Cardlytics, Inc. operates an advertising platform that integrates with the digital channels of financial institutions, including online and mobile banking, email, and real-time notifications, primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the company partners with over 1,500 financial institutions, such as Bank of America and PNC, to enhance customer loyalty through banking rewards programs. Utilizing purchase-based intelligence, Cardlytics enables marketers to effectively identify, reach, and influence potential buyers while accurately measuring the impact of their marketing campaigns. The company's primary offering, the Cardlytics Direct solution, serves as a native advertising channel within banking platforms, allowing marketers to connect with consumers in a trusted environment. Additionally, Cardlytics provides other platform solutions that leverage purchase insights outside the banking context, further enhancing marketers' capabilities to engage with their target audience.

PHEMI

Series A in 2015
PHEMI Systems Corporation specializes in developing a comprehensive privacy, security, governance, and data management system optimized for Microsoft Azure. Founded in 2013 and based in Vancouver, Canada, the company focuses on the healthcare sector, offering the PHEMI Data Privacy Manager. This cloud-based platform addresses the critical need for healthcare organizations to secure, manage, and control access to sensitive information while ensuring compliance with privacy regulations. Built on a privacy-by-design architecture, PHEMI’s software facilitates data sharing and integrates seamlessly with numerous data sources, as well as popular data science and business analysis tools. The platform is designed to scale according to the organization's size and offers a flexible usage-based pricing model.

Cardlytics

Series F in 2014
Cardlytics, Inc. operates an advertising platform that integrates with the digital channels of financial institutions, including online and mobile banking, email, and real-time notifications, primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the company partners with over 1,500 financial institutions, such as Bank of America and PNC, to enhance customer loyalty through banking rewards programs. Utilizing purchase-based intelligence, Cardlytics enables marketers to effectively identify, reach, and influence potential buyers while accurately measuring the impact of their marketing campaigns. The company's primary offering, the Cardlytics Direct solution, serves as a native advertising channel within banking platforms, allowing marketers to connect with consumers in a trusted environment. Additionally, Cardlytics provides other platform solutions that leverage purchase insights outside the banking context, further enhancing marketers' capabilities to engage with their target audience.

SoFi

Series C in 2014
SoFi, established in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, operates as a commercial bank offering a range of financial services. Primarily serving early-career professionals, SoFi provides personal loans, mortgage refinancing, and student loan assistance. Their wealth management services include retirement savings plans, investment products, and credit card offerings. Additionally, they provide small business financing solutions.

Lat49

Series A in 2009
Lat49 is the online mapvertising system that brings geographically relevant advertising to users of online maps. By leveraging how visitors use maps online, lat49 serves geographically targeted display ads that are complimentary to current advertising models and change dynamically depending on where the user positions the map. This patent-pending technology addresses the large demand from web publishers for an ad serving technology that will provide an effective revenue strategy for their map-centric properties, as well as the demand from local and brand advertisers to effectively reach the huge number of people who use online maps to plan, explore and discover. With lat49, advertisers buy entire sections of the map at multiple zoom levels to suit the goals of their advertising campaigns. They can build regional branding campaigns by owning the map's most zoomed out views, or they can finely tune their message to target the local, street, neighborhood, or urban level audiences.

Gatekeeper Systems

Venture Round in 2008
Gatekeeper Systems, Inc. is a company that specializes in shopping cart management solutions for brick-and-mortar retail stores. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Foothill Ranch, California, it offers a range of products designed to enhance cart retention and prevent push-out theft. Its flagship product, CartControl, prevents carts from leaving store premises, thereby minimizing abandonment, damage, and associated fines. The company also provides Purchek, a solution focused on push-out theft prevention, as well as CartManager, which aids in cart retrieval and addresses labor costs, injury liabilities, and cart-vehicle accidents. Additionally, Gatekeeper Systems offers Cart Analytics, which supplies marketing and operations managers with valuable data to help reduce costs and improve sales and customer service. The company was previously known as Gatekeeper Systems, LLC before changing its name in 2004.

Inimex Pharmaceuticals

Series B in 2008
Inimex Pharmaceuticals Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company based in Burnaby, Canada, specializing in the development and commercialization of Innate Defense Regulators (IDRs). These innovative drugs are designed to selectively modulate the body's innate immune defenses without inducing inflammation. The company's lead product, IMX942, aims to enhance survival rates, reduce tissue damage, and mitigate bacterial infections. Inimex's IDR products target a range of medical conditions, including infections and tissue injury-related ailments such as ventilator-associated pneumonia, tracheobronchitis, bacteremia, endocarditis, mucositis, and certain cancers. Founded in 2001, Inimex Pharmaceuticals is dedicated to advancing its unique therapies to improve patient outcomes.

Navarik

Venture Round in 2008
Navarik Corp. is a software and data service provider specializing in the commodity trading industry, particularly focusing on crude oil, refined products, and dry bulk commodities. Based in Vancouver, Canada, the company offers a range of solutions, including Navarik Inspection, a Software-as-a-Service platform designed for cargo inspections that enhances loss control and facilitates the timely delivery of cargo quantity and quality data. Additionally, Navarik Vetting is a web-based solution that streamlines the vessel vetting process, improving shipping operations. The company also provides data services through Navarik VEF, which centralizes the collection and validation of vessel experience records. Navarik's offerings support professionals involved in shipping, operations, scheduling, cargo assurance, and trading across various regions, including Canada and Nigeria. Established in 2000, Navarik aims to enhance operational decision-making, mitigate risk, and boost productivity within the petroleum supply and trading sector.

Mobidia Technology

Venture Round in 2008
Mobidia Technology, Inc. specializes in mobile app and network usage data solutions, offering insights that help businesses track competitors and optimize their services. Founded in 2004 and based in Richmond, Canada, the company provides a comprehensive analytics platform that delivers real usage data worldwide. By analyzing trends in mobile and Wi-Fi data, Mobidia enables companies to enhance their advertising strategies, refine data plans, and improve over-the-top service offerings. The firm's popular My Data Manager application assists smartphone users in managing their data consumption, leading to cost savings on mobile plans while also supporting mobile operators in increasing revenue and reducing operational costs. As of 2015, Mobidia operates as a subsidiary of App Annie Limited.

Lat49

Seed Round in 2007
Lat49 is the online mapvertising system that brings geographically relevant advertising to users of online maps. By leveraging how visitors use maps online, lat49 serves geographically targeted display ads that are complimentary to current advertising models and change dynamically depending on where the user positions the map. This patent-pending technology addresses the large demand from web publishers for an ad serving technology that will provide an effective revenue strategy for their map-centric properties, as well as the demand from local and brand advertisers to effectively reach the huge number of people who use online maps to plan, explore and discover. With lat49, advertisers buy entire sections of the map at multiple zoom levels to suit the goals of their advertising campaigns. They can build regional branding campaigns by owning the map's most zoomed out views, or they can finely tune their message to target the local, street, neighborhood, or urban level audiences.

Rx Networks

Series A in 2007
Rx Networks, established in 2002 and headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, specializes in mobile positioning technology. The company develops and provides hybrid positioning and assisted GPS software solutions, including the XYBRID line of products for chipset vendors, device OEMs, mobile operators, and equipment vendors. These products enhance mobile location experiences by integrating real-time positioning services, cloud-based GNSS hybrid location services, and GPS assistance data services. Rx Networks also offers support services, data services, and embedded software to its clients, which include chipset vendors, device OEMs, network vendors, and mobile operators in Canada and internationally.

Vivonet

Venture Round in 2005
Vivonet Inc. develops cloud-based solutions tailored for the hospitality and food services industries, focusing on point-of-sale (POS) systems, self-service kiosks, and enterprise management tools. Its offerings include Vivonet Kiosk, which enhances operational efficiency for food service and hotel brands, and Vivonet Cloud POS, suitable for various settings such as restaurants and university cafeterias. The company also provides Vivonet Enterprise Manager, a centralized control system for enterprise-level data management, and Vivonet Mobile Insights for real-time reporting on key business metrics. Vivonet serves a diverse clientele, including full-service and quick-service restaurants, hotels, healthcare institutions, and educational facilities. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, Vivonet has experienced significant growth and operates as a subsidiary of Infor, Inc.

Mobidia Technology

Series A in 2005
Mobidia Technology, Inc. specializes in mobile app and network usage data solutions, offering insights that help businesses track competitors and optimize their services. Founded in 2004 and based in Richmond, Canada, the company provides a comprehensive analytics platform that delivers real usage data worldwide. By analyzing trends in mobile and Wi-Fi data, Mobidia enables companies to enhance their advertising strategies, refine data plans, and improve over-the-top service offerings. The firm's popular My Data Manager application assists smartphone users in managing their data consumption, leading to cost savings on mobile plans while also supporting mobile operators in increasing revenue and reducing operational costs. As of 2015, Mobidia operates as a subsidiary of App Annie Limited.

Mobidia Technology

Venture Round in 2005
Mobidia Technology, Inc. specializes in mobile app and network usage data solutions, offering insights that help businesses track competitors and optimize their services. Founded in 2004 and based in Richmond, Canada, the company provides a comprehensive analytics platform that delivers real usage data worldwide. By analyzing trends in mobile and Wi-Fi data, Mobidia enables companies to enhance their advertising strategies, refine data plans, and improve over-the-top service offerings. The firm's popular My Data Manager application assists smartphone users in managing their data consumption, leading to cost savings on mobile plans while also supporting mobile operators in increasing revenue and reducing operational costs. As of 2015, Mobidia operates as a subsidiary of App Annie Limited.

In Motion Technology

Venture Round in 2005
In Motion Technology specializes in providing mobile enterprise networks tailored for public safety, transit, and utility fleets across the United States and Canada. The company’s flagship product, the onBoard Mobile Gateway (oMG), functions as a mobile branch office by offering a unified platform that connects various in-vehicle and mobile devices. This innovative solution enables organizations to manage their mobile operations efficiently, reliably, and securely, facilitating seamless communication and data management for users in the field.

Edgar Online

Post in 2002
EDGAR Online, Inc. specializes in the creation and distribution of financial data and public filings pertaining to equities, mutual funds, and other publicly traded assets in the United States. Established in 1996 and headquartered in Maryland, the company, originally known as Cybernet Data Systems, Inc., rebranded as EDGAR Online in January 1999. The firm provides a range of financial information products that assist users in analyzing the financial, business, and ownership conditions of various investment vehicles. Its offerings include standardized and as-reported financial data, annual and quarterly financial statements, insider trades, institutional holdings, and disclosures such as Form 8-K and electronic prospectuses. These products are available through online subscriptions, data licenses, and data feeds, catering to the needs of investors and analysts alike.
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