7 Gate Ventures

7 Gate Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Vancouver, Canada, specializing in seed to pre-Series A investments in technology startups. With a focus on software, SaaS, cloud services, marketplaces, mobile apps, Big Data/Analytics, Blockchain, FinTech, and HealthTech, the firm leverages the expertise of serial entrepreneurs to provide strategic mentorship and facilitate business growth. Founded in 2015, 7 Gate Ventures brings industry connections and decades of international venture-building experience to support the development and scaling of innovative new businesses in the technology sector.

Alireza Rahnema

Managing Partner

Ali Saheli

Venture Partner

Shahab Samimi

Senior Associate

Amir Vohooshi

Founding Managing Partner

31 past transactions

Betternet

Seed Round in 2015
Betternet LLC develops online security and privacy software. It offers Hexatech, a virtual private network protocol, which provides security and connection. The company is based in Stans, Switzerland.

Ulab Systems

Seed Round in 2017
uLab Systems Inc. develops a software technology for digital dental treatment planning for orthodontists. It offers uLab to create combination treatment plans to tailor each plan based on patient’s individual needs. Its uLab enables orthodontists to create aligner movement plans and print custom aligners. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Redwood City, California with an additional office in Shanghai, China.

Avenue Spaces

Seed Round in 2016
A service that curates high-quality furnishings according to the client’s taste.

Vendchat App, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Vendchat App, Inc., doing business as Spocket, designs and develops an application that let users discover and sell discounted products in e-commerce sites. The company is based in Vancouver, Canada.

Leavetown.com Vacations

Venture Round in 2017
Our vision at Leavetown is simple: to create personalized vacations for families and friends to reconnect with each other in experiential destinations. Our team of highly trained Destination Experts help our guests find perfect vacation accommodation, activities, ski tickets and local deals in breathtaking mountain and nature destinations across Canada and beyond. Founded in 2012, Leavetown has become one of Canada’s most trusted vacation specialists. We’re growing fast, with access to over 12,000 accommodation units across 58 iconic Canadian and American Destinations. Ready for a truly memorable, authentic vacation experience? We invite you to Leavetown with us.

Daily Delivery

Debt Financing in 2015
Daily Delivery is a hyper-local logistics startup based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Using a crowdsourced network of delivery specialists in every neighbourhood, Daily's platform makes it simple for local businesses & individuals to provide/request on-demand & same-day deliveries from one point to another, in under an hour. After gaining significant traction on the B2B side of the market, the primary focus of the company geared toward empowering SMB's by enabling them to offer on-demand delivery services to their local customers who shop from their website, mobile app or even when they are shopping in their physical stores.

Hengam

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Hengam uses artificial intelligence to predict risk of uninstallation for each user and sends your persuasive messages via automated smart push notifications to prevent them from churning.

Ulab Systems

Series E in 2021
uLab Systems Inc. develops a software technology for digital dental treatment planning for orthodontists. It offers uLab to create combination treatment plans to tailor each plan based on patient’s individual needs. Its uLab enables orthodontists to create aligner movement plans and print custom aligners. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Redwood City, California with an additional office in Shanghai, China.

NGD Systems

Series A in 2016
NGD Systems manufactures the world’s most advanced computational storage drives (CSDs) that allow customers to compute anywhere the data resides. The company provides the industry’s highest capacity NVMe CSDs that are the most power-efficient while delivering the smallest form factors. NGD System’s technology is ideal for edge computing networks, data-intensive AI/ML applications, stringent SLA environments, content delivery networks (CDNs) and hyperscale environments.

Roomvu

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Over half of all real estate agents operate as a one-person business and did not close a single deal last year. To compete for revenue, realtors need compelling, scalable marketing content. Roomvu is the Content Factory for real estate agents entirely automating the customer acquisition and marketing mechanics historically reserved for large real estate operations. Roomvu creates realtor-branded social media videos enriched with the latest market data so realtors can convert their audience to leads. Roomvu has acquired 6,500 customers across 300 cities in North America achieving 600% revenue growth in the first half of 2020. We create video contents at scale, publish the content and finally enable agents to target and promote their own audience.

Spocket

Pre Seed Round in 2017
With the help of Machine Learning, Spocket is set to revolutionize the dropshipping market and aid online retailers compete with Amazon- by removing the need to hold inventory and erasing upfront costs for retailers. Spocket enables over 20,000 entrepreneurs across five continents to launch and scale their online stores. Be part of the revolutionary vision of Spocket to remove inventory from the online and physical retail by using the dropshipping model and fixing the $1.1 trillion issue called inventory distortion.

Attendease

Seed Round in 2017
Attendease Software Corp. develops a cloud-based marketing automation solution for corporate event managers and teams. Its products include event management, event marketing, attendee experience, publishing and automation, portfolio management, and event measurement. Attendease Software Corp. was formerly known as Coverall Crew Corporation and changed its name to Attendease Software Corp. in June 2016. The company is based in Vancouver, Canada.

AVA Health Technologies

Seed Round in 2016
AVA Health Technologies is building a disruptive software platform that addresses challenges in pediatric care for children with acute, chronic, and rare conditions Our vision is to fill the gap in funding and focus in dedicated pediatric research and to provide a collaborative ecosystem for care that can facilitate discovery of new cures.

OstiSense

Seed Round in 2021
In short, we’ve come to believe bruxism is not a condition you have to live with. Having had the condition ourselves, we’re very familiar with its effects. In fact, every member of our team has dealt with the condition and its effects on a personal level, be they structural damage of teeth, loss of sleep, or the symptoms that plagues patients the next day. That’s why we’re working very hard to bring you the most comfortable biofeedback device, the first of its kind, next gen mouth guard to incorporate the benefits of a traditional customizable mouth guard, and a biofeedback device to train patients to wean off this condition.

LyteHorse

Venture Round in 2023
Manufacturer of electric vehicles intended to offer electric performance technology to meet today's mobility needs. The company's vehicles offers hot-swap battery system, low maintenance, zero noise system, easy on and off accessories, urban application, and military and industrial applications, enabling users to have an opportunity to connect with their communities.

Roomvu

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Over half of all real estate agents operate as a one-person business and did not close a single deal last year. To compete for revenue, realtors need compelling, scalable marketing content. Roomvu is the Content Factory for real estate agents entirely automating the customer acquisition and marketing mechanics historically reserved for large real estate operations. Roomvu creates realtor-branded social media videos enriched with the latest market data so realtors can convert their audience to leads. Roomvu has acquired 6,500 customers across 300 cities in North America achieving 600% revenue growth in the first half of 2020. We create video contents at scale, publish the content and finally enable agents to target and promote their own audience.

Hengam

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Hengam uses artificial intelligence to predict risk of uninstallation for each user and sends your persuasive messages via automated smart push notifications to prevent them from churning.

Leavetown.com Vacations

Series A in 2017
Our vision at Leavetown is simple: to create personalized vacations for families and friends to reconnect with each other in experiential destinations. Our team of highly trained Destination Experts help our guests find perfect vacation accommodation, activities, ski tickets and local deals in breathtaking mountain and nature destinations across Canada and beyond. Founded in 2012, Leavetown has become one of Canada’s most trusted vacation specialists. We’re growing fast, with access to over 12,000 accommodation units across 58 iconic Canadian and American Destinations. Ready for a truly memorable, authentic vacation experience? We invite you to Leavetown with us.

Qudos

Seed Round in 2016
Operator of a business-to-business marketplace designed to help businesses hire a firm. The company's business-to-business marketplace helps to transparently display company's specific needs, plans, and budget to their clients, enabling organizations to know more about the company before hiring.

Stay22

Seed Round in 2018
Over half the total spend on hotels and short-term rentals – $295B each year – comes from event accommodations for conferences, concerts, festivals, and sporting events. This is an incredibly underserved market. Event organizers typically view attendee accommodations as a non-revenue-producing activity and spend countless hours reserving blocks of rooms for $0 in return. Stay22 turns this into a HUGE new source of revenue for the event organizers who partner with us

CARFIT

Seed Round in 2018
CARFIT is a self-diagnostic & predictive maintenance platform in the connected car space that provides the dealers/service companies with customized lead generation and car owners with individualized predictive maintenance info on their car. CARFIT blends NVH [Noise, Vibration, and Harshness] automotive science with artificial intelligence to create the most comprehensive library on car's vibrations.

Arrinex, Inc.

Series A in 2016
Arrinex, Inc., a medical device company, develops medical procedure that is used in patients with refractory chronic rhinitis. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Redwood City, California. As of February 25, 2019, Arrinex, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Stryker Corporation.

ShareShed

Venture Round in 2015
ShareShed empowers people to live an environmentally conscience, affordable, and community minded lifestyle by facilitating effortless community gear sharing. ShareShed’s online marketplace allows users to rent outdoor adventure equipment like kayaks and tents through its website and mobile app.

Grow

Seed Round in 2019
Leading enterprise fintech platform, acquired by ATB Financial in November 2019. Grow's technology is powering a new generation of data-driven banking products and services, including digital personal loans, instant customer onboarding and account opening, advanced data analytics, and real-time compliance and identification tools. Grow was founded in 2014 and was acquired by ATB Financial in 2019.

Spocket

Seed Round in 2018
With the help of Machine Learning, Spocket is set to revolutionize the dropshipping market and aid online retailers compete with Amazon- by removing the need to hold inventory and erasing upfront costs for retailers. Spocket enables over 20,000 entrepreneurs across five continents to launch and scale their online stores. Be part of the revolutionary vision of Spocket to remove inventory from the online and physical retail by using the dropshipping model and fixing the $1.1 trillion issue called inventory distortion.

Uppercase

Seed Round in 2018
Uppercase provides retail solutions for brands launch stores. It offers a marketplace for short-term space; and provides tech-enabled retail stores for brands to launch, measure, and improve their retail presence in New York City, New York; Los Angeles, California; and Toronto and Vancouver, Canada. The company serves brands and real estate partners. Uppercase was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, New York.

Metaoptima

Seed Round in 2016
Metaoptima delivers digital healthcare solutions. It was started by a team of Simon Fraser University and University of British Columbia researchers with the vision of bringing digital healthcare solutions and mobile technologies together with a team of high-level academic researcher

IDmelon

Seed Round in 2021
Cybersecurity, Authentication

Blanc Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Blanc Labs Inc. develops and offers custom-made digital solutions for businesses. The company’s services include cloud enablement, application development and integration, decision-making, planning, and execution of modern digital solutions, data intelligence, and agile. It offers its services to emerging tech, financial services, telecommunications, and healthcare industries. Blanc Labs Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Trayt

Seed Round in 2016
Trayt, Inc., a patient-centric data analytics company, develops tools to measure efficacy of treatments. The company’s tools allow therapists to track, measure, and share behavioral and medical outcomes. It serves physicians, therapists, and other care providers. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Redwood City, California.