Indiegraf
Seed Round in 2024
Indiegraf is a Vancouver-based company that supports independent news outlets by providing essential resources and assistance. It develops tools aimed at empowering news entrepreneurs to address local news gaps. Indiegraf offers a range of products and programs designed to help media outlets achieve sustainability, including technology solutions, research, sales and growth services, as well as digital playbooks and templates. By equipping news businesses with these resources, Indiegraf enables them to expand their audience, enhance their growth, and increase their revenues, ultimately fostering a more vibrant and diverse media landscape.
Dispersa
Seed Round in 2023
Dispersa is a company dedicated to developing environmentally friendly biosurfactants derived from food waste. Unlike traditional surfactants that rely on palm oil or petroleum, Dispersa utilizes microbes to create surfactants that are both sustainable and circular in nature. These biosurfactants excel at dispersing oil particles by enveloping them in micelles, facilitating their breakdown and removal. By providing a sustainable alternative to synthetic and petroleum-based surfactants, Dispersa aims to enhance the sustainability and affordability of the biosurfactant market, offering industry users access to environmentally responsible products for the first time globally.
Gotcare
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Gotcare is Canada's largest self-directed care provider, specializing in personalized home care services. The company operates a platform that connects home health aides with individuals in need of care, offering a comprehensive database of licensed care workers. Users can submit care requests, choose support workers, and communicate directly with them, facilitating a tailored healthcare experience within the home. By serving Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Adjusters, Case Managers, and Legal Assistants, Gotcare aims to enhance the quality of care for clients while streamlining the process of finding and managing home health services.
Kai XR is a company focused on developing inclusive mixed reality spaces that allow children to explore, dream, and create. By leveraging virtual reality technology, it provides educational resources for educators, parents, and lifelong learners, facilitating early adoption of mixed reality in education. The company's platform offers culturally relevant learning opportunities, enabling the creation of accessible virtual reality classrooms and field trips for children. With offerings like virtual field trips to museums, Kai XR aims to enrich educational experiences without the associated costs or logistical challenges of traditional outings. The company is set to launch its new kid-friendly virtual reality platform, expanding its commitment to fostering creativity and learning in an immersive environment.
Courtroom5
Debt Financing in 2021
Courtroom5 is a technology-driven service that empowers individuals navigating the civil justice system without legal representation. It offers a comprehensive platform featuring bite-sized legal information, document templates, searchable case law, evidence analysis tools, online training resources, and a supportive community forum for peer advice. This integrated solution aims to enhance self-represented litigants' performance in court proceedings.
Gotcare
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Gotcare is Canada's largest self-directed care provider, specializing in personalized home care services. The company operates a platform that connects home health aides with individuals in need of care, offering a comprehensive database of licensed care workers. Users can submit care requests, choose support workers, and communicate directly with them, facilitating a tailored healthcare experience within the home. By serving Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Adjusters, Case Managers, and Legal Assistants, Gotcare aims to enhance the quality of care for clients while streamlining the process of finding and managing home health services.
beany.biz
Venture Round in 2019
Beany is a New Zealand-based accounting firm that offers online, fixed-price services tailored for small businesses. As a partner of Xero, Beany provides an accessible platform that connects clients with accountants, ensuring comprehensive support across various accounting needs. Their services encompass the complete spectrum of accounting, including taxation and financial planning, allowing business owners to evaluate their financial and tax situations based on data imported into the platform. This approach enables clients to have a single point of contact for achieving their accounting and financial objectives.
Routine
Pre Seed Round in 2019
Routine is a manufacturer of natural deodorants, based at the base of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The company specializes in creating effective, aluminum-free deodorant products designed to provide odor protection and hydration for the underarms. Routine's offerings include life-changing deodorants that aim to neutralize odor while ensuring comfort and confidence for users throughout the day. By focusing on natural ingredients, Routine addresses consumer demand for safer and healthier personal care products.
Think Dirty
Seed Round in 2019
Think Dirty Inc. is a Toronto-based company that has developed a mobile application aimed at educating consumers about the ingredients in cosmetics and personal care products. By allowing users to scan barcodes or search for products, the app provides information on potentially toxic ingredients and generates a score based on data drawn from various authoritative sources, including government lists, peer-reviewed journals, and health organization reports. This service simplifies the process of understanding product labels, enabling customers to make informed decisions regarding their health and environmental impact when shopping for beauty and household items.
Eve Medical
Pre Seed Round in 2019
Eve Medical, established in 2010 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, is a medical device company focused on addressing the healthcare needs of women. The company specializes in designing and manufacturing innovative medical products, with a notable offering being HerSwab. This product empowers women to take control of their sexual health by facilitating self-sampling for sexually transmitted infections screening. These screenings are crucial for monitoring reproductive well-being conditions such as cervical cancer, pelvic inflammatory disease, and infertility.
Novoloop
Debt Financing in 2019
Novoloop is a company focused on transforming hard-to-recycle plastic waste into high-quality performance materials, effectively contributing to a circular economy. By utilizing its proprietary platform, Lifecyclingâ„¢, Novoloop remakes plastic waste into materials that are molecularly identical to conventional products, offering a sustainable alternative with a lower carbon footprint than traditional virgin materials. This innovative approach allows brands and manufacturers to meet their sustainability goals while maintaining the quality of their products. Novoloop aims to eliminate the waste associated with plastics by creating new possibilities for materials that currently lack a viable future, thereby promoting a world where waste is minimized and resources are continuously reused.
The Town Kitchen
Seed Round in 2017
The Town Kitchen is a meal delivery service based in Oakland, California, established in 2015. It specializes in corporate lunch delivery by partnering with local chefs and food artisans. The company operates a platform that facilitates the preparation and delivery of chef-crafted meal boxes, employing low-income youth aged 16 to 24 from the Oakland community. These young individuals are engaged in planning, cooking, packaging, and delivering lunches, providing them with valuable job training and experience while offering customers access to homemade, quality meals. Through its innovative approach, The Town Kitchen not only addresses the demand for convenient food solutions but also promotes community growth and empowerment.