Anges Quebec

Anges Québec is a venture capital firm based in Montreal, Canada, founded in 2008. It specializes in seed and startup investments in a diverse range of sectors, including clean technologies, industrial and manufacturing, innovative services, information and communications technologies, medical devices, optics, electronics, real estate, retail, and life sciences. The firm focuses on innovative companies with large target markets and has facilitated over 210 investments in more than 115 enterprises, contributing over $80 million to the Quebec economy. Anges Québec comprises a network of more than 230 angel investors who typically invest between $25,000 and $100,000 individually, and collectively between $250,000 and $1,000,000 per project. Additionally, the firm supports its members in enhancing their investment knowledge and skills through a professional development center.

Isabelle Couture

Financial Services and Managing Director

Francois Gilbert

Chief Executive Officer and President

Marcel Larochelle

Angel Investor

Nicolas Mathy

Director of Relations with Portfolio Companies

Caroline Pelletier

Vice President, Screening

Stéphane Pilette

Vice President of Investment Support and Head of the Health and Well-being Sectoral Cell

Stéphanie Schwanen

Communications-Marketing and Community Director

Geneviève Tanguay

CEO

Past deals in Canada

ChrysaLabs

Series A in 2023
ChrysaLabs develops a portable probe that can measure in real-time soil nutrients and soil health for producers and agronomists. It also develops a management platform which enables workers to access data and take action. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Montreal, Canada.

Bridgr

Seed Round in 2023
Bridgr is a Marketplace that allows manufacturing SMBs find and collaborate with qualified experts to sustain, grow and digitalize their operations. It provides both parts a collaborative platform set to help them increase their productivity and work.

Autozen

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of an automotive retail platform intended to re-invent the car-selling experience. The company's platform takes care of everything including paperwork, payment, and pick-up, and creates an experience where no effort is required from sellers, enabling users to sell their vehicles from the comfort of their homes.

PlayFitt

Seed Round in 2022
PlayFitt is a fitness app that motivates everyone to achieve small daily movement goals whenever and wherever they want. PlayFitt employs gamification and machine learning to assist players in moving more. PlayFitt uses video game mechanics to get players hooked on living a healthier lifestyle. PlayFitt is focusing on digital wellness by developing technology that is actually beneficial to people's health.

IntelliSports

Seed Round in 2022
IntelliSports is a Montreal based technology company that is combining real world sports with a digitally engaging experience and A.I. to create real world gaming.At IntelliSports they firmly believe that getting healthy should be as much fun as Levelling Up in your favourite video game. They are using their experience in Sports Analytics, Machine Learning, Video Games and mass market consumer technology to create a fitness platform where users can train, group up, compete and enjoy many of the most engaging elements of modern video games.

Tengiva

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a supply chain operations software designed to optimize the use of resources and processes in the textile and clothing supply chains. The company's software features in-stock textile products and curated fabrics from worldwide suppliers and centralizes and provides structured access to data for textile manufacturers, industry-promotional associations, governmental organizations, and finished apparel brands, enabling businesses to optimize resource usage, increase transparency across the entire supply chain, and promote improved practices.

Boundless Life

Seed Round in 2022
Boundless Life empowers families to live, learn, work, and experience beautiful destinations around the world. The company builds a collection of thoughtfully designed communities located in beautiful destinations around the world comprised of private homes, co-working spaces, a school system based on experiential learning, and locally adapted recreational hubs. It was founded in 2021 and is located in Montreal, Canada.

Clinia

Seed Round in 2022
Clinia is a health search engine built for healthcare organizations to streamline operational workflows and improve patient navigation. Using Clinia’s scalable technology, our clients can build and customize search experiences within their own websites, portals or apps to facilitate access to healthcare resources for both their teams and users.

TickSmith

Series A in 2022
TickSmith Corp. designs and develops a data management system TickVault. The company offers a big data platform for recording, storing, transforming, analyzing, and delivering structured and unstructured financial data such as trade and quote history, news, and events, research, and corporate actions. The platform manages tick data, reference data, FIX messages, back-office data, financial and media content, PDFs, time-series, and statements. Additionally it provides data management, web portal and services, access and identity management, workflow management, monitoring, and audit logs. TickSmith Corp.’s clientele include exchange and data vendors, trading groups, and regulators, and SROs. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Montréal, Canada.

Crewdle

Seed Round in 2021
Crewdle is decentralizing video conferencing: achieving breakthrough economics and environmental sustainability while preserving privacy. It is founded in 2020 in Montreal, Canada.

Gallea

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Gallea is Canada's fastest growing online art gallery, showcasing local talent worldwide. It aims to become the world's largest art distribution network in the world. Founded in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Zilia

Seed Round in 2021
Zilia is a medical technology company that has developed a non-invasive platform utilizing imaging, spectrometry, and artificial intelligence to assess various biomarkers in the human eye. The focus is primarily on measuring oxygen levels, which play a vital role in ocular diseases such as glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, and age-related macular degeneration. Zilia's flagship product, the Zilia Ocular, is an innovative ocular oximeter that integrates hardware and software to assist eye care professionals in the prevention, diagnosis, and management of these conditions. The technology combines interactive analytical software with devices and data management tools to provide valuable insights into the metabolic state of ocular tissues and their relationship to overall health, enabling healthcare providers and researchers to effectively monitor and understand eye diseases.

Gray Oncology Solutions

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Gray Oncology Solutions has a vision of an oncology workflow where each patient’s journey through their cancer treatment is personalized for them, and statistically optimized to provide the best possible clinical outcomes. In pursuit of this vision, we’re developing resource allocation software focused on optimizing the functional efficiency of entire cancer centers resulting in reduced patient wait-times, higher patient throughput, reduced stress and ultimately, superior patient care.

Giiant Pharma

Seed Round in 2021
Giiant is a preclinical-stage biotech company that, with its proprietary Precision Delivery technology platform, designs gut-restricted, tissue-specific, small molecule, drug therapeutics with various biological targets in gastroenterology. Its lead program GT-2108 is a microbiota-activated PDE4 inhibitor prodrugs, with improved drug tolerability and enhanced therapeutic effect.

My Intelligent Machines

Seed Round in 2021
MIMs, a Montreal-based SAAS company was founded in June 2016 by Sarah Jenna (CEO), Mickaël Camus (CTO) and Abdoulaye Baniré Diallo (CSO). MIMs mission is to provide Biopharma and Agtech companies with AI-powered systems biology software for population stratification, target and biomarker discovery to help them develop a more efficient and personalized medicine and agriculture.

ChrysaLabs

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
ChrysaLabs develops a portable probe that can measure in real-time soil nutrients and soil health for producers and agronomists. It also develops a management platform which enables workers to access data and take action. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Montreal, Canada.

SeamlessMD

Series A in 2020
Surgery is one of the most vulnerable experiences that a person can ever go through. They find it scary that in the 21st century, they still rely on paper instructions and human memory to get patients through this complicated journey. They can and they must do better. At SeamlessMD, they are on a mission to give every patient the best health outcomes after surgery. Together with healthcare providers, they leverage design, data and technology to enhance the patient experience, improve outcomes and lower costs.
Orpyx Medical Technologies Inc. specializes in the development of mobility sensor devices aimed at diabetic patients. The company's flagship product, the Orpyx SI sensory insoles, utilizes advanced sensor technology to monitor pressure, temperature, and movement, thereby aiding in the management and prevention of diabetic foot ulcers and limb loss. In addition to the insoles, Orpyx offers Kinetyx, a mobile in-shoe pressure management system that collects clinical plantar pressure data for applications in sports medicine, therapeutic interventions, and footwear design. Another product, SurroGait Rx, is designed to enhance mobility and balance for multiple sclerosis patients suffering from loss of protective sensation in their feet. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Calgary, Canada, Orpyx Medical Technologies is committed to empowering individuals with diabetes to maintain their mobility while promoting a prevention-focused healthcare approach.

Medyx

Seed Round in 2020
Medyx, a mobile heath company is changing physicians financial life by conveniently bill and track all their revenue customized to their specialty in less than 5 minutes per day.

Eocycle

Venture Round in 2020
Eocycle Technologies Inc. develops, manufactures, and commercializes wind turbines for distributed wind energy applications. The company offers direct-drive wind turbines, custom generators/motors, and transverse flux permanent magnet generators/motors. It serves farms, ranches, greenhouses, and vineyards; residences; schools, colleges, and universities; governmental and institutional facilities, including office buildings, pumping stations, water treatment facilities, parks, arenas, stadiums, museums, and rest areas; retail businesses and small- or medium-size enterprises; golf courses, ski resorts, training centres, hotels, and recreational parks; rural electrification for developing countries; and isolated sites and remote areas where diesel-powered generation is used for producing electricity. The company offers its products through dealers worldwide. Eocycle Technologies Inc. was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in Gaspé, Canada.

Spiderwort

Seed Round in 2020
Spiderwort is a Canadian company based in Ottawa, founded in 2015, that specializes in developing biomaterials for regenerative medicine. The company focuses on creating plant-derived cellulose-based biomaterials, which are engineered to form various scaffold architectures. These innovative biomaterials aim to facilitate the repair and regeneration of tissues within the human body, including applications for spinal cord injury repair and soft tissue regeneration. Currently in the pre-clinical stage, Spiderwort's products show promising results in terms of biocompatibility and the ability to induce angiogenesis, which is the generation of new blood vessels within the scaffolds. By utilizing both biological and synthetic polymers, Spiderwort offers a range of product forms, including powders, gels, membranes, and pastes, contributing to advancements in healthcare and regenerative therapies.

Netlift

Seed Round in 2020
Netlift Inc. is a transportation service provider based in Montreal, Canada, founded in 2012. The company operates a mobile application that facilitates ride-sharing by matching passengers with drivers who have available seats in their vehicles. This service is designed to assist daily commuters by offering an efficient and cost-effective solution for traveling between home and work, while also integrating with the city's public transit network. Netlift's platform enhances mixed-mode commuting by proposing optimal route options that meet users' travel requirements, making it easier for individuals to connect and share rides.

HALEO Clinic

Seed Round in 2020
HALEO Preventive Health Solutions Inc. develops tele-psychotherapy software and mobile application that offers healthcare programs for sleep and mental disorders. It offers guidance for treatment of sleep disorders and insomnia therapy through video conferencing with doctors, therapists, and experts. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Montréal, Canada.

PAPER

Venture Round in 2020
Improve student achievement and teacher effectiveness with the leading Educational Support System. Leading school districts make Paper part of their strategic plan. Whether you need to support a high ELL population, improve math/English proficiency, reduce teacher turnover, or address opportunity gaps in a diverse socio-economic community, Paper helps you reach your district goals. Educational Equity Like Never Before Paper is the first comprehensive Educational Support System (ESS) featuring live help and writing feedback for students paired with real-time feedback and intervention tools for teachers.

Contxtful

Seed Round in 2020
Contxtful Technologies Inc. is a Montreal-based company that develops mobile digital solutions utilizing AI-driven technology. Founded in 2018, it leverages sensor-based data from mobile devices to identify user intent and context without compromising privacy, adhering to GDPR regulations. Its software enables businesses to measure brand engagement, optimize advertisement placements, and deliver tailored marketing messages based on real-time insights. The platform provides analytics for audience engagement, segmentation, and viewability, supporting various industries including advertising technology, marketing technology, finance, and video streaming. Contxtful's solutions enhance marketing performance and business intelligence by offering context-aware insights into digital audiences, facilitating improved ad monetization and the effectiveness of marketing campaigns.

Lexop

Seed Round in 2020
Lexop Solutions Inc. develops a software that automates account collection and legal communication. It offers an email technology that enables account collection teams to monitor and optimize customer outreach, payment experience, and collection rates. The company enables property managers and landowners to send notices to their tenants; manage communication with tenants; and schedule admin tasks. Lexop Solutions Inc. allows law firms to serve and share legal documents electronically. It also enable users to request, collect, and sort documents online. In addition, it offers e-signature solution to law firms. Lexop Solutions Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Montreal, Canada.

FlexPay

Seed Round in 2019
FlexPay is an AI-driven decline salvage platform that uses advanced machine learning models to recover between 50% and 70% of declined transactions. The software analyzes the varying attributes of transactions in order to save money in chargebacks. It mitigates against problems on a transaction-by-transaction basis with a proprietary, statistics-based decline salvage, and risk balancing strategy. It integrates seamlessly between the CRM and the existing payment gateway. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Montréal, Quebec, Canada.

PivoHub

Angel Round in 2019
PivoHub is a B2B craft beer ordering platform that facilitates the sale and purchase of beer between breweries and their retailers, bars, and restaurants. It makes it easy to take orders from their customers, whether they are a grocery store, a convenience store, a bar or a restaurant. No more faxes, handwritten purchase orders, lost e-mails, and endless data entry instead orders are created and sent by your customers directly on the platform. The company was founded in 2017 with an office in Montreal, Quebec.

Evey

Seed Round in 2019
Evey Innovation Inc., established in 2014 and based in Montreal, Canada, specializes in developing a home automation platform that enhances the safety and well-being of senior residents. The company's innovative personal assistant utilizes artificial intelligence to control and adapt various connected devices within the home. Its platform features a senior housing assistant that can detect falls, monitor presence, and track departures and returns, all through an integrated alarm function. By focusing on the unique needs of seniors, Evey Innovation aims to support their daily activities and improve their overall quality of life.

My Intelligent Machines

Seed Round in 2019
MIMs, a Montreal-based SAAS company was founded in June 2016 by Sarah Jenna (CEO), Mickaël Camus (CTO) and Abdoulaye Baniré Diallo (CSO). MIMs mission is to provide Biopharma and Agtech companies with AI-powered systems biology software for population stratification, target and biomarker discovery to help them develop a more efficient and personalized medicine and agriculture.

Aifred Health

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Aifred Health Inc. develops and offers deep-learning based clinical decision tool for physicians to enable personalized medicine to psychiatry. The company's application software offers treatment prediction, interpretability, patient data tracking, and electronic patient record. Aifred Health Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

C2Ro

Series A in 2019
C2RO is a high-tech enterprise software company based in Montreal, Canada. It offers privacy-aware video analytics solution for physical spaces using proprietary edge-cloud AI. C2RO's product, Perceive™, is enabling the digital transformation of physical spaces, including retail and commercial real estate, and smart city towards experiential and interactive environments for visitors. C2RO solutions are built for scale and reuse existing surveillance cameras while being compliant with the most restrictive data privacy regulations in the world.

Optina Diagnostics

Seed Round in 2019
Optina Diagnostics Inc. develops a technology for the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease through hyperspectral imaging of the eye. Its Optina Diagnostic retinal imaging test serves the healthcare industry. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Montréal, Canada.

Saccade Analytics

Venture Round in 2019
Saccade Analytics began in 2016 with Dr. Mimi Galiana, whose research at McGill University led the field of eye and head movement analysis for over 30 years. She came to understand that although her work had tremendous potential, much more was needed before it would help patients. With this goal, she founded Saccade Analytics and recruited Isabel Galiana to assist in building the business. Since then, we have grown under the mission to improve the standard of neurological care by translating advanced research into accessible tools.

Spring Loaded Technology

Venture Round in 2019
Spring Loaded Technology is changing the way the world moves. We're a company that thrives at the interface of research and development to build and deliver breakthrough technologies that can change and improve lives. Our flagship product, LevitationTM is the world’s first compact and powerful bionic knee brace capable of enhancing the power output of the leg muscles. For athletes, our braces offer reduced fatigue, heightened endurance, and increased performance. For individuals with a knee injury or mobility impairment, our braces function to restore mobility, reduce joint compression, and reduce pain. Whether it’s new heights of athletic performance or a return to the lifestyle you are accustomed to, Spring Loaded Technology is building a brace for you.

Spinologics

Venture Round in 2019
Spinologics Inc develops and manufactures spinal care products. It offers products, such as Scolioscreen, a device that allows phones to be used to screen for spinal deformities; Scolioscreen APP, a software that can be combined with Scolioscreen device for measuring angle of trunk rotation; and Cervision, a tool to maintain patient’s shoulders and arms to reduce surgery time and to provide x-rays of the cervical spine. The company also operates Biomechanics Numerical Lab that provides biomechanics to design medical devices and consulting services. Spinologics Inc was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Montréal, Canada.

Densitas

Venture Round in 2019
Densitas Inc. specializes in developing breast imaging analytics technologies aimed at enhancing radiology departments, diagnostic imaging facilities, and healthcare systems. The company's flagship product, densitasenterprise, is a web-based analytics platform that includes tools such as densitasdensity for ACR BI-RADS density scale assessments, densitasquality for image quality evaluations, and densitasrisk for breast cancer risk assessments. These solutions facilitate risk-based management of patients by providing healthcare administrators with on-demand insights to monitor clinical, quality, and operational performance indicators. Additionally, the platform is designed to operate on standard DICOM images, ensuring seamless integration with existing workflows and supporting both point-of-care and retrospective processing of mammograms. Founded in 2011 and based in Halifax, Canada, Densitas is committed to advancing value-based care through innovative healthcare analytics powered by artificial intelligence.

Thorasys

Venture Round in 2019
Thorasys Thoracic Medical Systems Inc. is a Canadian medical device start-up specializing in respiratory diagnostics. The company has developed tremoFlo, an advanced Airwave Oscillometry System that measures lung function effortlessly by applying a gentle multi-frequency airwave to the patient's respiratory airflow. This innovative technology assists healthcare professionals in diagnosing and monitoring lung diseases, such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, through a unique pulmonary function testing method known as forced oscillation. By enabling accurate lung capacity measurements for patients of all types, Thorasys aims to facilitate early detection and management of respiratory conditions. The company is headquartered in Halifax, Canada, and leverages cutting-edge research and technology in its product development.

MY01

Seed Round in 2019
MY01 offers real-time, accurate muscle pressure measurement that allows users to take timely action. MY01 capitalizes on clinically proven sensitivity and specificity for diagnosing Acute Compartment Syndrome (ACS). The company was founded in 2015 and based in Montréal, Quebec, Canada.

LocketGo

Seed Round in 2019
LocketGo Inc. is a Montreal-based technology startup that specializes in providing a rental service for lockers at events such as concerts, conventions, and festivals. Founded in 2016, the company offers a comprehensive locker rental solution equipped with radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology, digital PIN codes, and USB charging ports for mobile devices. In addition to event services, LocketGo has developed a smart locker network designed to facilitate parcel and food deliveries in densely populated urban areas. This innovative system allows for secure, contactless deliveries to smart lockers that are accessible to residents and merchants around the clock, enhancing convenience and efficiency in urban logistics.

Dispatch Coffee

Seed Round in 2019
We believe coffee at home can be better. Since founding as one coffee truck in 2012, we've been on a mission to make high quality, responsibly-sourced coffee accessible to everyone. Dispatch was founded on the belief that coffee could be better: fairer for farmers, more delicious, affordable and transparent for consumers, and more delightful as a shopping experience. The company’s vertically-integrated approach and direct-to-consumer focus enables a disruptive value proposition: lower prices for customers and fairer return to farmers on the retail price.

Keatext

Seed Round in 2019
Keatext Inc. is a Montreal-based company founded in 2010 that offers a cloud-based solution designed to enhance business performance by analyzing customer feedback. Its primary product, Keatext, synthesizes unstructured data from various sources, including surveys, online reviews, chat logs, and social media, to provide actionable insights. This enables businesses to understand customer preferences and respond promptly to their needs. By delivering these insights on a comprehensive custom dashboard, Keatext helps organizations cultivate meaningful relationships with their customers and improve overall customer experience management.

Cobalt Intelligence

Seed Round in 2019
ONE-CLICK SECURITY platform that reduces the response time from hours to seconds by automating the entire Enterprise incident response process.

reDock

Seed Round in 2019
reDock Inc. develops software that enhances the efficiency of responding to Requests for Proposals (RFPs) through the use of artificial intelligence. The software streamlines the management of corporate projects and documents, enabling users to create compliant and competitive proposals more quickly. Key features include dynamic templates, compliance checking, requirement matching, and a reporting dashboard, all designed to support proposal development teams. By automating routine tasks such as document management and contract oversight, reDock allows professionals to focus on the most critical aspects of RFPs. Founded in 2016 and based in Ottawa, Canada, the company primarily serves IT consulting, IT staffing, and management consulting firms in North America.

Studyo

Seed Round in 2019
Developer of a study management platform designed to empower self-reliance in students. The company's platform offers a mobile application that is designed around school terms and aids to see their schedule, classes, and sections in an organized fashion, enabling students to become autonomous and organized through digital planning tools.

PAPER

Venture Round in 2019
Improve student achievement and teacher effectiveness with the leading Educational Support System. Leading school districts make Paper part of their strategic plan. Whether you need to support a high ELL population, improve math/English proficiency, reduce teacher turnover, or address opportunity gaps in a diverse socio-economic community, Paper helps you reach your district goals. Educational Equity Like Never Before Paper is the first comprehensive Educational Support System (ESS) featuring live help and writing feedback for students paired with real-time feedback and intervention tools for teachers.

Laflamme Aéro

Venture Round in 2019
Laflamme Aéro produces and markets the LX300, a 300 kg autonomous helicopter for industrial and military use. Laflamme Aero is specialized in customizable unmanned helicopter and hardware, drone, simulator hardware.

Framework Venture Partners

Seed Round in 2019
Framework Venture Partners is a venture capital firm established in 2018 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Founded by Andrew Lugsdin and Peter Misek, the firm focuses on supporting founding teams and CEOs in building world-class companies. Framework employs a data-driven investment decision process alongside a collaborative engagement model, which is tailored to assist entrepreneurs and CEOs in scaling their businesses within high-growth global market segments. The firm's approach emphasizes both analytical insights and hands-on support, enabling it to effectively contribute to the success of its portfolio companies.

FoodRelay

Seed Round in 2019
FoodRelay is a virtual cafeteria for employees bringing real benefits to companies.

Oneka Technologies

Seed Round in 2018
Oneka Technologies Inc., founded in 2015 and based in Sherbrooke, Canada, specializes in manufacturing innovative water desalination systems that convert ocean water into drinkable water. The company's solution features autonomous buoys that harness ocean waves to produce fresh water. As waves impact the buoys, they create a vertical pumping motion that pressurizes seawater through reverse osmosis membranes, resulting in potable water. This water is then delivered to clients onshore via an underwater pipeline. Oneka's systems operate cost-competitively without recurring fuel expenses and do not require the use of coastal land or create visual disturbances, distinguishing them from other renewable energy solutions. The technology is scalable, allowing for the addition of more buoy units as demand increases, making it adaptable to varying water needs. Oneka also maintains a testing site in Port St. Lucie, Florida, to further its research and development efforts.

LynX Inspection

Seed Round in 2018
LynX Inspection Inc. manufactures inspection equipment that combines three-dimensional (3D) analysis and X-ray imaging to analyze the internal and external structure of precision parts and detect defects. The company uses its patented technology, Predictive 3D Radiography, which analyzes the structure of complex parts. The company serves the industrial inspection market of manufactured parts and assemblies with tight tolerances, including the aerospace, defense, and automotive industries. LynX Inspection Inc. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Québec, Canada.

Laurent Pharmaceuticals

Venture Round in 2018
Laurent Pharmaceuticals is a private biopharmaceutical company developing a clinical-stage, orally-active drug candidate. The company has a clinical-stage drug development program (LAU-7b) that addresses the compromised immune-inflammatory response in Cystic Fibrosis (CF), a critical but still enigmatic pathogenic pathway leading to pulmonary insufficiency in CF patients. Laurent Pharmaceuticals was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Montréal, Quebec.

FlexPay

Pre Seed Round in 2018
FlexPay is an AI-driven decline salvage platform that uses advanced machine learning models to recover between 50% and 70% of declined transactions. The software analyzes the varying attributes of transactions in order to save money in chargebacks. It mitigates against problems on a transaction-by-transaction basis with a proprietary, statistics-based decline salvage, and risk balancing strategy. It integrates seamlessly between the CRM and the existing payment gateway. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Montréal, Quebec, Canada.

impak Finance

Angel Round in 2018
impak Finance connects savers and investors with entrepreneurs and companies working for a sustainable transformation.

Inversago Pharma

Series A in 2018
Inversago Pharma Inc. is a preclinical-stage biotechnology company based in Montreal, Canada, focused on developing innovative peripherally-restricted cannabinoid-1 receptor (CB1) inverse agonists. Founded in 2015, the company aims to address various health conditions, including Prader-Willi syndrome, Type-1 diabetes, obesity, and other metabolic disorders such as non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. Inversago's approach seeks to overcome limitations associated with earlier generations of CB1 blockers, thereby maximizing their therapeutic potential. By advancing new drug candidates, Inversago Pharma is positioned to provide healthcare professionals and patients with effective treatment options for metabolic and fibrotic disorders.

Alice POS

Venture Round in 2018
Alice POS is a new-generation cloud based point-of-sale software package that launches merchants into the modern high-tech era. Developer of a point of sale software intended to modernize the retail trade. The company's software offers a smart cross-selling tool that effectively guides employees so that no sale slips between their fingers, enabling merchants to have access at all times and from everywhere, to their point-of-sale and all their management tools.

Polystyvert

Venture Round in 2018
Polystyvert Inc. provides innovative recycling services specifically for polystyrene, enabling the collection and processing of this material to restore it to its original form. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Anjou, Canada, the company focuses on delivering high-quality recycled polystyrene that matches the quality of new materials. Polystyvert's technology simplifies the recycling process, addressing environmental concerns associated with polystyrene waste.

Apogée trailers

Seed Round in 2018
Remorques Apogée Trailers manufactures and sells aluminum utility trailers. It sells its products through dealers, as well as stores in Canada. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Saint-Hubert, Canada.

WEGOTRADE

Seed Round in 2018
WEGOTRADE groups all the B2B supply chain players within the same marketplace, to facilitate business, optimize processes, save money, discover and be discovered.

Secure Exchanges

Venture Round in 2018
Secure Exchanges is a company focused on ensuring the confidentiality of information exchanged over the internet. It provides a platform that specializes in secure transmission for sensitive information, such as credit card numbers and confidential documents. Utilizing a CTD system—encryption, transmission, and destruction—Secure Exchanges guarantees that personal data is removed from the web immediately after being accessed by the intended recipient. The platform supports various methods of communication, including direct website exchanges, API integration, and an Outlook plug-in. This service is particularly beneficial for professionals such as accountants, lawyers, journalists, and notaries, who require a secure way to transfer sensitive information. By offering tools that encrypt messages and attachments, Secure Exchanges enables clients to conduct their communications in a safe, efficient, and cost-effective manner.

Heyday AI

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Heyday Technologies Inc. specializes in developing a conversational artificial intelligence and messaging application tailored for e-commerce and retail brands. Founded in 2017 and based in Montreal, Canada, the company offers a product that facilitates seamless communication between sales and support teams and their AI assistant. Heyday’s application connects with customers, managing chat interactions to enhance the overall customer experience. By leveraging Conversational AI, Heyday enables retailers to provide instant, personalized service at scale, transforming how businesses engage with their clientele. The company's solutions are particularly beneficial for industries such as sporting goods, cosmetics, and furniture, where delivering a VIP experience to every customer is a priority.

Hyasynth Bio

Seed Round in 2017
Hyasynth Bio is a Montreal-based company that specializes in the production of natural cannabinoid compounds. It focuses on developing innovative solutions for researchers, healthcare professionals, and patients dealing with conditions such as multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease, chronic pain, inflammation, and muscular dystrophy. By leveraging a combination of traditional and modern biological technologies along with computational analysis, Hyasynth Bio aims to create effective drugs for a wide range of diseases. The company utilizes a scalable platform based on engineered microbes to enhance its drug development process, effectively addressing the needs of the medical community.

KalGene Inc

Series A in 2017
KalGene Inc. is a Canadian company focused on developing precision medicine aimed at treating Alzheimer's disease and cancer. Established in 2006 and based in Candiac, the company collaborates with leading clinician-scientists and academic institutions across North America and Europe. KalGene specializes in creating targeted therapeutics and companion diagnostics that utilize a personalized medicine approach. This methodology seeks to predict patient responses to specific therapies based on their unique biological profiles, allowing for tailored treatment plans. By emphasizing individualized care, KalGene's therapeutics aim to improve both clinical outcomes and overall quality of life, while addressing safety concerns associated with traditional treatments.

GOrendezvous

Seed Round in 2017
GOrendezvous is an online appointment and class management platform that aims to simplify the scheduling process for both professionals and clients. The platform features a Smart Waiting List that automatically fills cancelled appointments, ensuring maximum client satisfaction. Users can conveniently make appointments online, receive reminders, and enjoy calendar integration. Additional capabilities include clustered booking, group class management, and the ability to generate insurance receipts and ratings. By streamlining appointment management, GOrendezvous enables professionals to save time and enhance their service offerings.

Wilder Harrier

Angel Round in 2017
Healthy, tasty and sustainable foods made with insects. Our first product is BugBites, dog treats made with cricket flour, fresh bananas and peanuts.

SpherePlay

Venture Round in 2017
SpherePlay creates, delivers, and monetizes VR experiences across all platforms. Its solution is a suite of VR media players that enables broadcasters, publishers and commercial content distributors to integrate virtual reality experiences to their existing media distribution workflow via their own apps and websites. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Montréal, Quebec.

Frank & Oak

Venture Round in 2017
Frank & Oak is a vertically integrated online menswear brand with premium threads and a simple, integrated, and personalized shopping experience. Every month, Frank & Oak offers members a limited feed of premium clothing and accessories. Our curators act as a lifestyle partner, offering style advice, personalized product suggestions, and an easy-to-use shopping platform. Since launching in February 2012, the brand has seen tremendous growth, momentum, and media coverage for both its garments and its unique membership experience.

Ovensa

Seed Round in 2017
Ovensa Inc., a preclinical stage biotechnology company, provides delivery technology platforms to solve pharmacokinetic challenges or to reformulate off patent drugs without modifying or denaturing them. It offers TRIOZAN, a nanomedicine delivery platform that provides a pharmaceutical polymeric loaded micro/nanocarrier for the delivery of a range of drugs in multiple barriers, including blood brain barrier, buccal, bronchial, cornea and conjunctiva, dermal, female reproductive tract, gastrointestinal tract, and nasal. The company’s platform develops bioactives for the pharmaceutical, biomedical, cosmetic, and health supplement industries. Ovensa Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Aurora, Canada.

Boréas Technologies

Seed Round in 2017
Boréas Technologies commercializes innovative high-voltage, low-power integrated circuits for consumer and industrial markets. Founded in 2016 by Simon Chaput, Boréas counts on an elite team of design and technology veterans with an average of 20+ years of industrial experience to bring rapidly its technology to market. The company is based out of Bromont, Canada.

DressYou

Seed Round in 2017
Developer of a fashion platform built to link consumers of clothing and fashion accessories and retailers. The company's marketplace allows everyone to share photos of their looks and identifying the pieces they wear which should be among the partner shops which can be bought directly by clicking on the articles, enabling users to shop better and earn money by converting sales for fashion retailers through content they put up.

Moka

Angel Round in 2017
Moka Financial Technologies Inc. is a Canadian company that operates a financial application designed to help users save and invest more effectively. Founded in 2015 and based in Montreal, Moka provides a unique service that automatically rounds up users' everyday purchases and invests the spare change, enabling individuals to start investing without requiring substantial financial knowledge or lifestyle changes. Since its launch in 2017, the app has gained significant popularity, with over 750,000 downloads and numerous positive reviews. In 2020, the company rebranded from Mylo to Moka and expanded its reach to France. Moka aims to enhance its offerings by leveraging artificial intelligence and human expertise to develop new features that assist users in managing expenses, accelerating debt repayment, and providing financial coaching, thereby empowering individuals to optimize their financial well-being.

Nectar Technologies

Seed Round in 2017
Nectar's mission is to ensure the health of honey bees by helping beekeepers apply the right care at the right time through bee-friendly and human technology. They aim to bring bees and beekeepers closer together by enabling communication between two species.w

Wilder Harrier

Seed Round in 2016
Healthy, tasty and sustainable foods made with insects. Our first product is BugBites, dog treats made with cricket flour, fresh bananas and peanuts.

Thorasys

Seed Round in 2016
Thorasys Thoracic Medical Systems Inc. is a Canadian medical device start-up specializing in respiratory diagnostics. The company has developed tremoFlo, an advanced Airwave Oscillometry System that measures lung function effortlessly by applying a gentle multi-frequency airwave to the patient's respiratory airflow. This innovative technology assists healthcare professionals in diagnosing and monitoring lung diseases, such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, through a unique pulmonary function testing method known as forced oscillation. By enabling accurate lung capacity measurements for patients of all types, Thorasys aims to facilitate early detection and management of respiratory conditions. The company is headquartered in Halifax, Canada, and leverages cutting-edge research and technology in its product development.

PAPER

Seed Round in 2016
Improve student achievement and teacher effectiveness with the leading Educational Support System. Leading school districts make Paper part of their strategic plan. Whether you need to support a high ELL population, improve math/English proficiency, reduce teacher turnover, or address opportunity gaps in a diverse socio-economic community, Paper helps you reach your district goals. Educational Equity Like Never Before Paper is the first comprehensive Educational Support System (ESS) featuring live help and writing feedback for students paired with real-time feedback and intervention tools for teachers.

Greatify

Seed Round in 2016
Greatify’s mission is to inject humanity back in the workplace and inspire 5 million employees and managers alike to become more engaged at work by 2026. Greatify is an employee engagement solution that helps you create and automate incentive programs for all of your company’s teams and in a variety of different industries. Greatify goes beyond the frivolity of many products that focus on bringing games to work; rather, we focus on the business challenges companies face while leveraging research in human and workplace psychology. Greatify sets itself in an entirely new league to help businesses improve employee engagement, performance, and productivity.

Syntbiolab

Angel Round in 2016
Syntbiolab is a biotechnology health care company located in Levis.

Polystyvert

Venture Round in 2016
Polystyvert Inc. provides innovative recycling services specifically for polystyrene, enabling the collection and processing of this material to restore it to its original form. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Anjou, Canada, the company focuses on delivering high-quality recycled polystyrene that matches the quality of new materials. Polystyvert's technology simplifies the recycling process, addressing environmental concerns associated with polystyrene waste.

IONODES

Seed Round in 2016
Founded in 2007, IONODES is focused on developing the latest in video encoding, decoding and management appliances and software platforms. Our unique experience in IP based video managements solutions, as well as our key partnerships with other leading companies in the security space means we can help you with both hardware and software for IP video surveillance. Let us guide you through the steps needed in building the right solution, from hybrid analog and IP solutions, to more advanced multi-site all-IP deployments.

ECOTIERRA

Seed Round in 2016
ECOTIERRA INC. develops forestry and agro-forestry projects that address environmental issues. Its project model includes degraded lands, agro-forestry system implantations, commodities production, and carbon offset generation, as well as key performance indicators in the areas of economics, social, and environmental. The company also offers access to commodities, such as coffee and cocoa. In addition, it offers MINKA, an online database that gathers baseline data, offers activities information collection, allows information sharing with stakeholders, and generates key performance indicators. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Sherbrooke, Canada with additional offices in Lima, Peru; Columbia; and Abidjan, Cote d Ivoire.

Ovensa

Seed Round in 2016
Ovensa Inc., a preclinical stage biotechnology company, provides delivery technology platforms to solve pharmacokinetic challenges or to reformulate off patent drugs without modifying or denaturing them. It offers TRIOZAN, a nanomedicine delivery platform that provides a pharmaceutical polymeric loaded micro/nanocarrier for the delivery of a range of drugs in multiple barriers, including blood brain barrier, buccal, bronchial, cornea and conjunctiva, dermal, female reproductive tract, gastrointestinal tract, and nasal. The company’s platform develops bioactives for the pharmaceutical, biomedical, cosmetic, and health supplement industries. Ovensa Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Aurora, Canada.

37e Avenue

Venture Round in 2016
37e AVENUE helps organizations develop and enrich their clientele through content marketing. We advise organizations on their content strategy, then create quality content to attract, captivate and convince your target customers.

Soundbite Medical Solutions

Seed Round in 2016
Soundbite Medical Solutions Inc. is a cardiovascular medical technology company based in Montreal, Canada, specializing in the development and commercialization of innovative medical devices. Founded in 2013, the company focuses on creating a proprietary wire-based device and generator console that utilizes shockwave energy to treat chronic total occlusions (CTOs) within the cardiovascular system. This technology is designed to enhance vessel preparation for patients suffering from peripheral artery disease (PAD) and coronary artery disease (CAD), which collectively impact over 20 million individuals in the United States. Soundbite Medical Solutions aims to improve treatment outcomes for these patients through its advanced therapeutic solutions.

Laurent Pharmaceuticals

Funding Round in 2016
Laurent Pharmaceuticals is a private biopharmaceutical company developing a clinical-stage, orally-active drug candidate. The company has a clinical-stage drug development program (LAU-7b) that addresses the compromised immune-inflammatory response in Cystic Fibrosis (CF), a critical but still enigmatic pathogenic pathway leading to pulmonary insufficiency in CF patients. Laurent Pharmaceuticals was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Montréal, Quebec.

Classcraft

Venture Round in 2016
Classcraft Studios Inc. develops web and mobile applications designed for classroom behavior management through an innovative role-playing game format. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Sherbrooke, Canada, Classcraft provides tools that enable teachers to effectively manage, motivate, and engage students by transforming traditional classroom dynamics into an interactive gaming experience. The platform is accessible on various operating systems, including Android, iOS, OS X, Chrome, and Windows, making it versatile for educational settings. By incorporating game mechanics into lessons, Classcraft aims to enhance student engagement and improve the overall learning experience.

Chronogolf

Series A in 2016
Chronogolf facilitates interactions between golf courses and golf players by leveraging the potential of web applications, cloud infrastructure and mobility. They differ from the competition by going beyond the simple processing of tee-time bookings and they offer golf courses a fully integrated CRM software in the cloud. They empower golf courses by providing tools to efficiently identify and understand their customers, attract new players, optimize their tee-time sheet, retain their existing clientele through increased customer loyalty and control the efficacy of the above with detailed and relevant statistics and data analytics.