BDC Capital

BDC Capital Inc. is the private equity and venture capital arm of the Business Development Bank of Canada, focusing on direct and fund of funds investments. It specializes in various financing options, including subordinate, recapitalization, bridge, and venture capital, targeting middle market, later stage, and small to medium-sized businesses. BDC Capital engages in venture capital activities across all stages, from seed funding to pre-IPO financing, with a particular emphasis on technology and healthcare sectors. Its investment strategy includes a commitment to supporting women-led firms and spans industries such as life sciences, telecommunications, information technology, and advanced technologies. The firm typically invests between CAD 0.1 million and CAD 35 million, often seeking minority stakes and board representation in its portfolio companies. BDC Capital prefers to exit investments within three to five years, utilizing strategies such as initial public offerings and strategic sales. Established in 1975 and headquartered in Montreal, the firm also has offices in British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, and Alberta, focusing its investments primarily within Canada.

Steven Abrams

Partner

Dinar Ahmed

Partner

Nabil El Asraoui

Associate

Lenka Baloghova

Associate

Amine Benmoussa

Principal

Disha Bhargav

Associate

Jeremy Billan

Partner, Growth Equity Partners

Ela Borenstein

Vice President

Sara Cavalluzzi

Associate

Cheri Corbett

Director

Olivier Côté

Associate

Kristina D’Amico

Director, Fund Investments

Kyle Feucht

Director

Ajay Gopal

Associate Director

Vivian Kan

Partner

Karim Kennedy

Director - Cleantech Practice

Leonard Kofman

Partner, Intellectual Property-Backed Financing

Sandy Li

Associate

Guillaume Mercier

Senior Vice President, Advisory Services and Business Strategy

Mona Minhas

Partner, Thrive Venture Fund

Claude Miron

Managing Partner - Growth Equity Partners

Anamika Mukherjee

Partner of Industrial, Clean and Energy Technology Venture Fund

Alison Nankivell

Vice President, Fund Investments and Global Scaling

Katherine Nicanorova

Associate

Michael Notto

Partner, Growth Equity Partners

Thomas Park

Partner

Salman Qadir

Associate

Loren Rafeson

Partner, Growth Equity Partners

Karl Reckziegel

Senior Vice President, Direct Investments

Joseph Regan

Managing Partner, Industrial Innovation Fund

Lally Rementilla

Managing Partner, IP-Backed Financing

Victor Scutaru

Managing Director, Private Equity Funds Portfolio

Matt Stanley

Partner, Climate Tech Fund

Stephanie Tadros

Associate

Zoltan Tompa

Director, Cleantech Practice

Ron Warburton

Managing Partner

Past deals in Market Research

Brizo Data

Series A in 2023
Brizo FoodMetrics is a leading data and analytics provider for the foodservice industry. Brizo helps the most competitive restauranteurs and restaurant vendors make better informed decisions and win their market.

Potloc

Series B in 2022
Potloc Inc. operates an online consumer insights platform that enables businesses to access valuable data regarding consumer behavior and purchasing habits. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with additional offices in Toronto, Paris, and Geneva, Potloc conducts geotargeted surveys through social networks, offering a modern alternative to traditional research methods. By leveraging these surveys, Potloc assists clients in improving customer experience, converting competitors' clients, and enhancing product or service offerings. The platform empowers businesses by providing insights that help them connect with their target audiences and drive profitability. With a growing team of nearly 60 employees, Potloc serves hundreds of businesses seeking to understand and engage with consumers more effectively.

Roomvu

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Roomvu operates a video marketing platform specifically designed for real estate agents, many of whom work independently and struggle to close deals. The platform automates customer acquisition and marketing efforts that are typically accessible only to larger real estate firms. By producing realtor-branded social media videos, enriched with up-to-date market data, Roomvu helps agents convert their audience into leads. The service includes hyper-local content, which enhances social media marketing, email marketing, CRM, and digital advertising. This comprehensive approach allows real estate professionals to create effective landing pages and better promote themselves, ultimately improving their chances of success in an increasingly competitive market. Roomvu has successfully attracted 6,500 customers across 300 cities in North America and has experienced significant revenue growth.

Klue

Series A in 2020
B2B SaaS providing market and competitive intelligence. Helps sales, and the teams that enable them, leverage competitive intelligence to win more business. It was founded in 2015 by Jason Smith and Sarathy Naicker and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Sampler

Series B in 2020
At Sampler, we help consumer packaged good brands of all sizes and categories deliver physical samples to digitally targeted consumers. Our turnkey solution helps brands gather consumer feedback and demographic insights that will increase successful trial and in-turn conversion rates. Using Sampler, brands no longer need to hand out samples at random, and can get product into the right hands. We call it Direct to Consumer Product Sampling.
Benchmark Instrumentation & Analytical Services is an employee owned measurement solution company. The company provide the means to capture your measurement on your terms, and we expect our performance to be benchmarked by your experience with us.

Potloc

Seed Round in 2018
Potloc Inc. operates an online consumer insights platform that enables businesses to access valuable data regarding consumer behavior and purchasing habits. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with additional offices in Toronto, Paris, and Geneva, Potloc conducts geotargeted surveys through social networks, offering a modern alternative to traditional research methods. By leveraging these surveys, Potloc assists clients in improving customer experience, converting competitors' clients, and enhancing product or service offerings. The platform empowers businesses by providing insights that help them connect with their target audiences and drive profitability. With a growing team of nearly 60 employees, Potloc serves hundreds of businesses seeking to understand and engage with consumers more effectively.

Sampler

Seed Round in 2018
At Sampler, we help consumer packaged good brands of all sizes and categories deliver physical samples to digitally targeted consumers. Our turnkey solution helps brands gather consumer feedback and demographic insights that will increase successful trial and in-turn conversion rates. Using Sampler, brands no longer need to hand out samples at random, and can get product into the right hands. We call it Direct to Consumer Product Sampling.

Klue

Seed Round in 2017
B2B SaaS providing market and competitive intelligence. Helps sales, and the teams that enable them, leverage competitive intelligence to win more business. It was founded in 2015 by Jason Smith and Sarathy Naicker and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Potloc

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Potloc Inc. operates an online consumer insights platform that enables businesses to access valuable data regarding consumer behavior and purchasing habits. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with additional offices in Toronto, Paris, and Geneva, Potloc conducts geotargeted surveys through social networks, offering a modern alternative to traditional research methods. By leveraging these surveys, Potloc assists clients in improving customer experience, converting competitors' clients, and enhancing product or service offerings. The platform empowers businesses by providing insights that help them connect with their target audiences and drive profitability. With a growing team of nearly 60 employees, Potloc serves hundreds of businesses seeking to understand and engage with consumers more effectively.

Repable

Convertible Note in 2016
Repable, Inc. is an analytics company based in Toronto, Canada, specializing in the gaming industry. Founded in 2015 by Sean Power and Heather Anne Carson, Repable offers a platform designed to provide broadcasters, teams, and enterprises with valuable insights and analytics related to gaming and streaming. The platform utilizes an independent data engine to analyze the entire esports and live game streaming ecosystem, enabling users to comprehend the financial and social repercussions of their daily interactions with fans and the public. Through its services, Repable aims to enhance understanding of the dynamics within the gaming space, ultimately assisting clients in making informed decisions.

Roveterio

Seed Round in 2016
Rover Labs Inc. offers a location-based mobile marketing platform designed to assist retailers and brands in delivering targeted mobile content based on consumers' physical locations. The platform focuses on proximity marketing solutions, allowing companies to engage with customers in real-time through relevant notifications triggered by their location. It provides tools for managing geofencing and beacons, creating content, and tracking customer interactions, which helps businesses understand customer profiles and evaluate campaign performance. By enhancing mobile apps with its capabilities, Rover enables retailers to engage shoppers effectively during their in-store experiences. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an office in Toronto, Canada, Rover serves various sectors, including professional sports, retail, loyalty, and tourism.

SourceKnowledge

Debt Financing in 2015
SourceKnowledge operates a programmatic video platform that focuses on post-click behavior to measure advertising success. The company provides various solutions, including Reach, a self-serve video advertising platform; Engage, a performance marketing platform; and Cross-Serve, which delivers unified campaigns across multiple devices. Additionally, SourceKnowledge offers RunSafe, a brand safety suite, along with agency and e-commerce solutions, helping brands drive sales through premium digital channels. Utilizing proprietary algorithms and machine learning, the company optimizes campaign traffic while ensuring transparency in analytics and order reporting for its clients. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Montreal, SourceKnowledge also has offices in Toronto, Vancouver, and Los Angeles, serving a global clientele.

PiinPoint

Seed Round in 2014
PiinPoint is a location analytics company that helps business owners discover, compare, and validate locations for expansion. It provides web-based solutions for businesses to identify new locations and forecast future site sales. The company allows its clients to monitor the performance of their current locations and identify key success factors, explore new locations, and generate reports which includes an in-depth analysis into various locations. PiinPoint was founded by Adam Saunders and Jim Robeson in 2013; and is located in Sunnyvale, California.

Analyze Re

Series A in 2013
Analyze Re Inc. is a Canadian company based in Halifax, founded in 2013, that specializes in software-as-a-service solutions for the reinsurance industry. It offers a high-performance computing platform designed for portfolio risk management and pricing optimization. The company's software provides real-time analytics, enabling reinsurers to process large volumes of complex data and make informed decisions about pricing and portfolio management. By facilitating faster and more accurate decision-making, Analyze Re aims to modernize the data analysis processes within the reinsurance sector. As of October 2016, Analyze Re operates as a subsidiary of AIR Worldwide Corporation.

Tapstream

Seed Round in 2013
Tapstream is a marketing dashboard for app makers that solves the user acquisition problem for apps. By using Tapstream to track acquisition, retention, and ROI across hundreds of channels, app makers gain complete clarity of marketing ROI, enabling them to reduce cost of customer acquisition and focus on channels with high customer lifetime value. Tapstream's customers, including Bleacher Report, WebMD, HootSuite, KISSmetrics, and Neverblue, use Tapstream to manage and measure millions of dollars of direct advertising and brand advertising spend.

Canopy Labs

Seed Round in 2012
Canopy Labs Software Inc. offers a predictive customer analytics platform designed for small and mid-sized enterprises. Founded in 2012 and based in Toronto, Canada, the company assists businesses in analyzing data to forecast customer preferences and churn rates. The platform enables users to develop customer models, plan sales campaigns, and optimize lead lists, ultimately aiming to enhance revenue and sales growth. By providing tools for marketing strategy and audience analysis, Canopy Labs has supported numerous companies in effectively understanding and engaging with their customers. As of November 2018, Canopy Labs operates as a subsidiary of Drop Technologies Inc.

Datacratic

Seed Round in 2012
Datacratic, an iPerceptions company, is a leader in providing audience data that helps enterprise brands create more effective and targeted digital marketing campaigns. Datacratic’s Audience Recognition Solution uses visitor feedback to build smarter audience segments that improve the effectiveness of retargeting campaigns. Datacratic’s Audience Optimizer scores 3rd party audiences using 1st party data signals to create high-quality look-alike audiences that increase the reach and performance of digital marketing campaigns. The world’s leading Data Management Platforms integrate with Datacratic including Oracle Data Cloud.

Radian6

Series B in 2008
Radian6 helps companies listen to what people are saying about them online and engage in those conversations across the social web. From blogs and comments to multimedia, boards, forums and communities like Twitter, Radian6 gathers the discussions happening online and gives businesses the ability to analyze, manage, track, and report on their social media monitoring and engagement efforts. Radian6 provides the social media monitoring platform for marketing, communications and customer support professionals. The company's flexible dashboard enables monitoring all forms of social media with results appearing in real-time, as discovered. Analysis widgets, streamlined reporting, integrated workflow capabilities and our Insights platform give users the ability to uncover influencers, track and measure engagement and determine which conversations are having an impact online. Integrated social media, CRM, and web analytics also help companies define their social media ROI. Product Attributes: * Data is captured in real-time as discovered and delivered to dashboard analysis widgets. * The UI is easy to use with text, pictures and video inside the dashboard. * The solution covers all forms of social media including blogs, top video and image sharing sites, forums, opinion sites, mainstream online media and emerging media like Twitter. * Automated sentiment analysis * Radian6 has now extended its platform to equip team members with deep social media listening and measurement capabilities within the tools they already use. With features developed on their platform API and Social Metrics Framework for integrating third-party data, Radian6 now supports the integration of social customer relationship management (CRM), web analytics, and other enterprise systems. * Conversational dynamics are constantly tallied to track the viral nature of each post. This allows for easy sorting by publish date, comment count, unique commenters and calculated engagement. * There is no limit to keywords when setting up topic profiles. Billing is tied to results, not the parameters used. * Multiple languages are supported including; English, French, Italian, German, Simple Chinese, Russian, Swedish, Dutch, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean and Japanese. * Results can be filtered by country, by source and by media type. * Numerous analysis widgets can be set up to analyze within a date range or for pre-set days. * The most influential sites for a topic profile can be calculated based on user-weighted scoring. * Configurable email and instant messenger alerts for staying top of things while away from your desk * Design your own daily email reports including posts, graphs and charts * Team work flow abilities for tagging, classification and assignment of posts to team members including recording of internal notes, engagement responses and ticket status for on-demand reporting and graphs. The Radian6 Insights platform: * Radian6 Insights combines the coverage and depth of Radian6 with additional content from third party insights partners to offer a deeper understanding of who is participating and where conversations are being held. * Use Radian6 Insights to gain a deeper understanding of both what is being said on the social web as well as who is saying it. * Quickly gain access to valuable meaning behind your social traffic, such as demographics, influence, location information, sentiment, topic categorization, and more. * Use capabilities from different Insights partners together for unparalleled deep-dive analysis. * Moving beyond keyword based analysis, Insights help deliver key information that you may not be aware of. * Receive real time, ongoing social intelligence surrounding your brand, your industry or any area of interest. The Engagement Console: * Is a complete real-time social web client. * Helps you coordinate team social media engagement across the enterprise. * Shows Radian6 topic profiles right alongside your personal or corporate Twitter, Facebook and Chatter streams. * Lets you set one-click workflow for frequently used post routing, assignment, and classification. * Feeds data to your Radian6 dashboard for reporting and analysis. The Summary Dashboard: * Monitor the health of your brand on the social web in one convenient application with the Radian6 Summary Dashboard. * Understand your social conversation without the time or resources required for a full-time analyst, with real time, high-level summaries of your brand on the social web. * These summaries are available in real time, automatically update and can be easily accessed and shared. * At a glance, monitor volume, sentiment, demographics, influencers and more. Radian6 Mobile: * Since the social web doesn't stop when you're away from your desk, stay plugged into your brand on the go with Radian6 Mobile. * Focus the entire social web into one mobile application. * Interact with your community or route posts to the right people with workflow functions all while away from your desk. * Quickly monitor overall volume, sentiment and more with the Summary feature. * Coming soon to the iTunes store and the Apple iPhone. Additional mobile devices to follow. Coverage includes: * over 150M blogs * over 420 video and image sharing sites such as [YouTube](/organization/youtube), Google Video, [Flickr](/organization/flickr), [Metacafe](/organization/metacafe), [Revver](/organization/revver), Vech, [Daily Motion](/organization/dailymotion), [Bebo](/organization/bebo), Grouper, [BrightCove](/organization/brightcove) and many more. * over 25k online mainstream news sites * over 90 million Tweets on [Twitter](/organization/twitter) * hundreds of thousands of discussions boards * public spots on social networks including [Facebook](/organization/facebook) & [Linkedin](/organization/linkedin) Groups * comments appearing on social media posts We are the only provider who has invested significantly in a proprietary social media crawler that goes far beyond simple RSS feed tracking allowing for the broadest and fastest coverage of the social web in the market.

Radian6

Series A in 2007
Radian6 helps companies listen to what people are saying about them online and engage in those conversations across the social web. From blogs and comments to multimedia, boards, forums and communities like Twitter, Radian6 gathers the discussions happening online and gives businesses the ability to analyze, manage, track, and report on their social media monitoring and engagement efforts. Radian6 provides the social media monitoring platform for marketing, communications and customer support professionals. The company's flexible dashboard enables monitoring all forms of social media with results appearing in real-time, as discovered. Analysis widgets, streamlined reporting, integrated workflow capabilities and our Insights platform give users the ability to uncover influencers, track and measure engagement and determine which conversations are having an impact online. Integrated social media, CRM, and web analytics also help companies define their social media ROI. Product Attributes: * Data is captured in real-time as discovered and delivered to dashboard analysis widgets. * The UI is easy to use with text, pictures and video inside the dashboard. * The solution covers all forms of social media including blogs, top video and image sharing sites, forums, opinion sites, mainstream online media and emerging media like Twitter. * Automated sentiment analysis * Radian6 has now extended its platform to equip team members with deep social media listening and measurement capabilities within the tools they already use. With features developed on their platform API and Social Metrics Framework for integrating third-party data, Radian6 now supports the integration of social customer relationship management (CRM), web analytics, and other enterprise systems. * Conversational dynamics are constantly tallied to track the viral nature of each post. This allows for easy sorting by publish date, comment count, unique commenters and calculated engagement. * There is no limit to keywords when setting up topic profiles. Billing is tied to results, not the parameters used. * Multiple languages are supported including; English, French, Italian, German, Simple Chinese, Russian, Swedish, Dutch, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean and Japanese. * Results can be filtered by country, by source and by media type. * Numerous analysis widgets can be set up to analyze within a date range or for pre-set days. * The most influential sites for a topic profile can be calculated based on user-weighted scoring. * Configurable email and instant messenger alerts for staying top of things while away from your desk * Design your own daily email reports including posts, graphs and charts * Team work flow abilities for tagging, classification and assignment of posts to team members including recording of internal notes, engagement responses and ticket status for on-demand reporting and graphs. The Radian6 Insights platform: * Radian6 Insights combines the coverage and depth of Radian6 with additional content from third party insights partners to offer a deeper understanding of who is participating and where conversations are being held. * Use Radian6 Insights to gain a deeper understanding of both what is being said on the social web as well as who is saying it. * Quickly gain access to valuable meaning behind your social traffic, such as demographics, influence, location information, sentiment, topic categorization, and more. * Use capabilities from different Insights partners together for unparalleled deep-dive analysis. * Moving beyond keyword based analysis, Insights help deliver key information that you may not be aware of. * Receive real time, ongoing social intelligence surrounding your brand, your industry or any area of interest. The Engagement Console: * Is a complete real-time social web client. * Helps you coordinate team social media engagement across the enterprise. * Shows Radian6 topic profiles right alongside your personal or corporate Twitter, Facebook and Chatter streams. * Lets you set one-click workflow for frequently used post routing, assignment, and classification. * Feeds data to your Radian6 dashboard for reporting and analysis. The Summary Dashboard: * Monitor the health of your brand on the social web in one convenient application with the Radian6 Summary Dashboard. * Understand your social conversation without the time or resources required for a full-time analyst, with real time, high-level summaries of your brand on the social web. * These summaries are available in real time, automatically update and can be easily accessed and shared. * At a glance, monitor volume, sentiment, demographics, influencers and more. Radian6 Mobile: * Since the social web doesn't stop when you're away from your desk, stay plugged into your brand on the go with Radian6 Mobile. * Focus the entire social web into one mobile application. * Interact with your community or route posts to the right people with workflow functions all while away from your desk. * Quickly monitor overall volume, sentiment and more with the Summary feature. * Coming soon to the iTunes store and the Apple iPhone. Additional mobile devices to follow. Coverage includes: * over 150M blogs * over 420 video and image sharing sites such as [YouTube](/organization/youtube), Google Video, [Flickr](/organization/flickr), [Metacafe](/organization/metacafe), [Revver](/organization/revver), Vech, [Daily Motion](/organization/dailymotion), [Bebo](/organization/bebo), Grouper, [BrightCove](/organization/brightcove) and many more. * over 25k online mainstream news sites * over 90 million Tweets on [Twitter](/organization/twitter) * hundreds of thousands of discussions boards * public spots on social networks including [Facebook](/organization/facebook) & [Linkedin](/organization/linkedin) Groups * comments appearing on social media posts We are the only provider who has invested significantly in a proprietary social media crawler that goes far beyond simple RSS feed tracking allowing for the broadest and fastest coverage of the social web in the market.

ResponseTek

Seed Round in 2003
ResponseTek Networks Corp. specializes in customer experience management software, offering the ResponseTek Listening Platform, which delivers comprehensive insights and analytics to organizations. This platform facilitates multi-channel customer feedback collection through various methods, including SMS surveys and social media monitoring, enabling businesses to gain a unified view of their customer interactions. It provides tools for role-based reporting, real-time data integration, and program management, enhancing the ability of companies to respond effectively to customer needs. Serving sectors such as telecommunications, finance, healthcare, and retail, ResponseTek has established partnerships with major firms like Nielsen and IBM. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, the company has expanded its presence with offices in North America, Europe, India, and Australia, catering to a global clientele that includes notable corporations like HSBC and Vodafone.
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