Adventure Capital

Adventure Capital is a venture capital firm based in Calgary, Canada, founded in 2008. The firm focuses on investing in the mobile, information technology, and media sectors, with a particular interest in software as a service (SaaS) and alternative business models. Known for its active role as an angel investor, Adventure Capital combines personal capital with a commitment to fostering businesses that aspire to become global leaders. The firm aims to build a diverse portfolio of ambitious companies with the potential to achieve significant impact in their respective industries.

Brian Craig

Principal

23 past transactions

Haloo

Seed Round in 2022
Haloo empowers marketing and legal teams to collaborate effectively in trademark management. Its platform enables efficient and affordable searching, filing, and defense of trademarks, with built-in consultation from Google and former USPTO examiners ensuring up-to-date compliance.

Samdesk

Series A in 2021
Samdesk is a company that specializes in transforming unstructured social media data into actionable insights for crisis management. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Samdesk offers a platform designed to monitor global disruptions and provide real-time alerts during emergencies. By leveraging artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and machine learning, the platform detects and verifies events such as fires, floods, and terrorist attacks based on social media chatter. This technology allows for the triangulation of location data and the extraction of relevant information, enabling decision-makers in corporate security, public safety, and emergency response to act quickly and effectively. By providing timely and accurate situational awareness, Samdesk helps minimize the impact of emergencies on business operations and personnel safety.

ReUpp

Pre Seed Round in 2021
ReUpp is an e-commerce management platform focused on enhancing post-purchase liquidity for consumers while promoting circular sustainability. The company provides a buy-back program for eligible items, making it easier for customers to sell back their purchases. By partnering with retailers, ReUpp enables businesses across various industries to facilitate a resale economy at the point of first purchase. The platform employs a programming interface that allows for real-time monitoring of key performance indicators, serving as a valuable conversion and retention tool for brands. Through its innovative approach, ReUpp aims to make the circular economy more accessible to consumers and businesses alike.

Joni

Seed Round in 2021
Joni is a manufacturer of period care products focused on providing accessible and inclusive menstruation care. The company offers organic bamboo pads designed with plant-based protective layers and packaged in biodegradable, plastic-free wrappers. By prioritizing transparency and inclusivity, Joni aims to meet the diverse needs of its customers across various environments, including schools, workplaces, online, and in retail settings. The company's commitment to sustainability also addresses environmental concerns related to personal hygiene products, ensuring that women can find effective solutions without compromising on health or the planet.

MINDD™ Bra & Bodywear

Seed Round in 2020
At MINDD™, our purpose is to revolutionize the way women experience comfort, confidence, and support through innovative wire-free, fit-flexible bras. We are dedicated to empowering individuals with inclusive designs, advanced technology, and exceptional quality that celebrate diverse body shapes and sizes. Our mission is to seamlessly blend style and functionality, ensuring every woman feels comfortable, confident, and beautifully supported every day. Our patented wire-free technology, recognized with three awards, features 3D fit-flexible support for unmatched comfort and fit.

Three Ships Beauty

Seed Round in 2020
Three Ships is a skincare company that also provides services. They believe that all beauty products should be completely natural and inexpensive.

ZayZoon

Venture Round in 2020
Founded in 2014, ZayZoon offers an earned wage access platform that enables employees to access their earned funds before payday. This service helps reduce financial stress and promotes better economic well-being.

Samdesk

Seed Round in 2020
Samdesk is a company that specializes in transforming unstructured social media data into actionable insights for crisis management. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Samdesk offers a platform designed to monitor global disruptions and provide real-time alerts during emergencies. By leveraging artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and machine learning, the platform detects and verifies events such as fires, floods, and terrorist attacks based on social media chatter. This technology allows for the triangulation of location data and the extraction of relevant information, enabling decision-makers in corporate security, public safety, and emergency response to act quickly and effectively. By providing timely and accurate situational awareness, Samdesk helps minimize the impact of emergencies on business operations and personnel safety.

Provision Analytics

Seed Round in 2020
Provision Analytics Inc., founded in 2018 and headquartered in Calgary, Canada, specializes in cloud-based solutions for food safety management. The company provides software designed for food processors and manufacturers, streamlining food safety processes by automating data input and recall procedures. This technology connects detailed process data with production outcomes, enabling the generation of analytics that help minimize food loss and improve quality control. By enhancing traceability and tracking throughout the supply chain, Provision Analytics supports the food industry in ensuring safety and compliance.

SalonScale

Seed Round in 2020
SalonScale is a technology company that provides hardware and software to manage hair color product usage and costs in salons. It develops Bluetooth-enabled scales that measure the exact amount of dye used and a mobile and web platform for tracking color usage, inventory, and expenses in back-bar operations. By weighing products and recording associated charges, the solution enables salons to separate color costs from stylist labor and improve inventory management. The platform serves salons with a back-bar management system and dashboards for cost measurement. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Saskatoon, Canada, SalonScale was created by stylists and has grown to over a thousand users across North America.

Virtual Gurus

Series A in 2020
Virtual Gurus is a talent platform that connects businesses with skilled Canadian and American virtual assistants. Using proprietary technology, it matches organizations with remote professionals offering services such as bookkeeping, marketing, data entry, and administrative support.

Fillip Fleet

Seed Round in 2020
Fillip Fleet offers a digital fuel and expense management solution that empowers businesses to control vehicle-related spending. Its modern payment platform enables businesses to refuel anywhere, monitor purchases in real-time, and simplify bookkeeping, enhancing operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

Sampler

Venture Round in 2019
Sampler is a company that specializes in digital product sampling services for consumer-packaged goods brands across various categories. It offers a self-serve platform that allows brands to deliver physical samples to precisely targeted consumers. By providing a comprehensive solution, Sampler enables brands to obtain valuable consumer feedback and demographic insights, enhancing the effectiveness of product trials. The company's services facilitate the capture of both demographic and behavioral data on every sample distributed, allowing businesses to gain a deeper understanding of consumer preferences and analytics. This targeted approach helps increase trial success rates and improves conversion rates for brands.

Leankor

Seed Round in 2019
Leankor is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) enterprise that specializes in visual workflow and project management solutions, fully integrated with the Salesforce App Cloud and Salesforce CPQ. The company's no-code collaborative work management platform offers an integrated order-to-cash workflow, transforming outdated project management systems into streamlined processes. By providing real-time visibility and collaboration, Leankor helps clients such as telecommunication service providers, industrial equipment manufacturers, and large-scale renewable energy providers enhance their operational efficiency. Its solutions enable businesses to deliver products and services more quickly, accelerate invoicing, and improve overall cash flow, resulting in better business outcomes.

Phoenix Molecular Designs

Seed Round in 2019
Phoenix Molecular Designs Ltd is a biotechnology company based in Vancouver, Canada, with an additional office in San Diego, California. Founded in 2012, the company specializes in the development of small molecule kinase inhibitors as targeted therapies for cancer. Its primary focus is on developing first- and best-in-class inhibitors that uniquely target p90 ribosomal S6 kinase (RSK), which has shown promise in treating metastatic breast cancer, including triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). Phoenix Molecular Designs has successfully completed a Phase 1 first-in-human clinical trial with its lead asset, PMD-026, and has also conducted a Phase 1b mono-therapy trial in TNBC across several leading medical centers in the United States. Currently, a Phase 2a trial is underway for HR+/HER2- metastatic breast cancer. The company's platform shows potential in enhancing treatment options for various refractory cancers by providing adjuncts to chemotherapy, hormone therapy, and immunotherapy.

Link Investment Management

Venture Round in 2019
Link Investment Management delivers cloud-based software that supports digital workplace savings, retirement plans, and recordkeeping. Its platform administers defined contribution pension plans, group retirement savings plans, employee share purchase plans, multi-employer pension plans, group tax-free savings accounts, and employee stock option plans, enabling employers to establish and manage financial wellness programs for their workforce. The company also offers a white-label recordkeeping, administration, and reporting platform and works with licensing partners to create new distribution channels for investment products, expanding access to plan members. Through strategic partnerships, including with a top North American bank, Link Investment Management broadens the reach of its services and supports growing employee assets under administration.

Rival Technologies

Venture Round in 2019
Rival Technologies, Inc. is an innovator in the field of online research platforms, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. The company's primary offering is Chat Lab, a platform designed to facilitate the creation of agile mobile communities comprising customers, fans, and employees to gather and analyze information. Rival Technologies enhances the research process with its chat, voice, and video technology, enabling effective data capture. The platform aims to empower research teams by maximizing the potential of mobile technology, leading to increased impact and effectiveness without the need for additional resources or budget overruns.

Yr Plans

Funding Round in 2019
Yr Plans Inc. is a Calgary-based company founded in 2019 that specializes in employee benefit solutions aimed at enhancing financial wellness. The company offers an innovative employer-assisted student loan repayment program known as The Smart Benefit. This program allows employees to allocate a portion of their employer contribution match towards repaying student loans instead of directing it solely to retirement savings. By focusing on alleviating student debt, Yr Plans Inc. provides a valuable service that addresses a significant financial challenge for many employees, promoting overall financial health and well-being in the workplace.

Katipult Technology

Post in 2018
Katipult Technology Corp., established in 2008 and headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, operates as a financial technology company. It specializes in providing a cloud-based software infrastructure that enables firms to create, launch, and manage investment platforms, offering debt, real estate financing, and securities to various investors on a prospectus-exempt basis. Katipult's platform automates key components of investor and investment management, including financial transactions, marketing, dividend payouts, and regulatory compliance across multiple jurisdictions. It serves a global client base, offering modules tailored to different user types such as investors, issuers, administrators, and auditors. Katipult's solutions cover a range of investment vehicles, including REITs, DSTs, QOZ funds, PIPEs, and commercial real estate, streamlining processes, enhancing investor experience, and accelerating deal flow. The company generates revenue through monthly recurring SaaS subscriptions and integration services, including regulatory and marketing consulting.

Women At The Helm

Seed Round in 2018
Founded in New York City in 2010, Women At The Helm specializes in retailing fashion, beauty, home, and wellness products.

NanoPrecise Sci Corp

Pre Seed Round in 2017
NanoPrecise Sci Corp specializes in predictive maintenance solutions for industrial equipment. It offers RotationLF, a hardware-software system that combines physics, material science, and data analytics to diagnose machinery issues and predict remaining time to failure. The solution extracts RPM, vibration, sound, temperature, and humidity data from a single sensor, using AI algorithms for anomaly detection and fault characterization. Serving sectors like petrochemical, utility, manufacturing, oil and gas, mining, and infrastructure, NanoPrecise Sci Corp was founded in 2015 with offices in Edmonton, Canada, and Bangalore, India.

Nipika Mountain Resort

Venture Round in 2003
Nipika Mountain Resort is an eco-resort located in Invermere, Canada, specializing in four-season outdoor activities. Founded in 1979, the resort offers a range of self-propelled activities, including cross country skiing, ice skating, tobogganing, and snowshoeing during the winter, as well as mountain biking, hiking, and trail running in the summer. The resort features luxurious log cabin accommodations and also serves as a venue for weddings, family reunions, corporate retreats, and special events. In addition, Nipika Mountain Resort provides a variety of rental equipment, such as mountain bikes, cross country skis, snowshoes, and inflatable canoes, ensuring guests have everything they need for an active and enjoyable stay.
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