Build Ventures

Build Ventures, established in 2013 and headquartered in Halifax, is a venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage technology companies based in Atlantic Canada. The firm specializes in startup and seed round follow-on investments, typically ranging from CAD1 million to CAD5 million, with initial contributions often starting at CAD0.5 million. Build Ventures seeks to support innovative companies in sectors such as information technology, clean technology, and life sciences, providing not only capital but also operational and investment expertise to help founders build successful businesses.

Rob Barbara

General Partner

Patrick Keefe

General Partner

38 past transactions

PayTic

Seed Round in 2025
PayTic is a provider of program management services designed to assist banks, credit unions, and fintech companies in managing their payment operations. The company offers a specialized Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that automates and centralizes back-office processes, including customer support, chargebacks, fraud management, anti-money laundering (AML) compliance, reporting, and reconciliation. This innovative approach streamlines end-to-end operations, reducing the complexity and costs associated with payment management. By replacing fragmented and manual processes, PayTic enhances the efficiency and audibility of financial institutions' payment products while significantly lowering operational costs. The company is pioneering the Zero Ops model, which aims to optimize the management of payment programs, providing a competitive edge to its clients.

Tenera Care

Venture Round in 2025
Tenera Care is a technology company that specializes in real-time monitoring and analytics for senior care. Its platform integrates hardware and software solutions to enhance safety and health in care facilities. Tenera Care's offerings include a wristband and a connected application that record health data and analyze behavioral symptoms indicative of physical and mental deterioration. This cloud-based system allows families to access wellness reports and monitor the movements of their loved ones in residential care settings. Additionally, Tenera Care's platform helps detect hazardous situations, improving incident response times and creating a safer environment for residents, staff, and visitors.

Musical AI

Seed Round in 2025
Musical AI is a platform designed to empower musicians, songwriters, and rights holders by enabling them to control and monetize the use of their works within artificial intelligence models. The platform facilitates safe licensing of music catalogs for AI training, ensuring clear usage terms and fair compensation through patent-pending attribution. Musicians can leverage their own music, MIDI files, and loops to train custom AI models that generate new sounds and musical compositions. This not only enhances the creative possibilities in music production but also provides AI companies with a compliant and efficient solution for training and deploying their models, minimizing legal complexities. Musical AI thus supports rights holders in navigating the digital landscape while fostering innovation in the music industry.

Potential Motors

Seed Round in 2024
Potential Motors Inc. is a Canadian company founded in 2018, specializing in software solutions that enhance the safety and performance of vehicles through artificial intelligence and computer vision. The company has developed RallyAI, a platform designed to optimize vehicle control by analyzing both off-road and on-road terrain in real-time using various camera systems. This technology allows vehicles to adapt their traction and suspension settings dynamically, improving overall performance and efficiency. Potential Motors collaborates with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) across several sectors, including motorcycles, powersports, defense, and automotive, to trial and refine its innovative solutions. Based in Hanwell, Canada, the company is committed to advancing vehicle capabilities in a variety of challenging environments.

TrojAI

Seed Round in 2024
TrojAI is a provider of an advanced AI security platform designed to safeguard artificial intelligence and machine learning applications and infrastructure. The platform offers a range of services, including model monitoring techniques and data transformation, which help defend against adversarial attacks while enhancing model accuracy and performance. Additionally, TrojAI features a forensically tracked archival repository system that protects customers' AI technologies from risks such as data poisoning and model evasion attacks. Developed by a team of data scientists and cybersecurity experts, TrojAI's solutions are tailored for large enterprises, ensuring scalability, performance, and extensibility to meet their security needs effectively.

Bright Breaks

Venture Round in 2023
Bright Breaks offers a workplace wellness solution to boost employee wellness, connection, and productivity with 7-minute live micro-breaks. Bright Breaks' wellness platform is designed to provide users with maximum benefits while requiring the least amount of effort. It only takes a few minutes per day to reduce stress and improve well-being.

3D BioFibR

Seed Round in 2023
3D BioFibR Inc. is a biomaterial manufacturing company based in Halifax, Canada, specializing in the production of high-value biofibers such as spider silk, collagen, and chitosan. Founded in July 2020, the company leverages pioneering research to develop proprietary methods for biofiber production that achieve quality and scale not currently attainable through traditional methods. 3D BioFibR's products, including CollaFibR™, a collagen fiber stronger than natural tendons, and spider silk that surpasses steel in toughness and flexibility, are designed for diverse applications across global markets like biomedical engineering, green textiles, defense, and aerospace engineering. The company aims to address critical engineering challenges by providing commercially available materials suitable for 3D bioprinting, cell culture, and tissue engineering, positioning itself as a potential leader in the manmade production of advanced biomaterials.

Trophi.ai

Seed Round in 2023
Trophi.ai is an e-sports coaching company that utilizes artificial intelligence to deliver computer-generated feedback to players. By offering coaching services regardless of a player's location or income, Trophi.ai aims to level the playing field in the competitive e-sports arena. The company employs contractors to facilitate its coaching services and is developing AI systems that can extend beyond e-sports into physical sports. This innovative approach enables athletes and racers to enhance their performance by leveraging insights derived from advanced technology.

Arcturus

Series A in 2022
Arcturus is a software company that specializes in the post-production and streaming of volumetric videos. The company's platform, Holosuite, enables creatives to finesse and amplify volumetric captures to fit artistic and production goals. HoloSuite is designed to author, edit, and stream volumetrically captured performers so that producers can create immersive virtual and augmented reality experiences using live-action performances.

ProcedureFlow

Venture Round in 2022
ProcedureFlow is a subscription-based SaaS company that specializes in providing a cloud-based workflow management platform. Its software enables organizations to create visual maps of complex operating procedures, policies, and information, presented as easy-to-follow, hyperlinked flowcharts. By structuring instructions into manageable segments, ProcedureFlow enhances employee training and proficiency, allowing staff to access critical information efficiently and effectively. This approach not only accelerates the onboarding process but also leverages the knowledge of senior resources to empower employees with the expertise they need, ultimately boosting their confidence in performing tasks.

PayTic

Seed Round in 2022
PayTic is a provider of program management services designed to assist banks, credit unions, and fintech companies in managing their payment operations. The company offers a specialized Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that automates and centralizes back-office processes, including customer support, chargebacks, fraud management, anti-money laundering (AML) compliance, reporting, and reconciliation. This innovative approach streamlines end-to-end operations, reducing the complexity and costs associated with payment management. By replacing fragmented and manual processes, PayTic enhances the efficiency and audibility of financial institutions' payment products while significantly lowering operational costs. The company is pioneering the Zero Ops model, which aims to optimize the management of payment programs, providing a competitive edge to its clients.

Curv Health

Seed Round in 2022
Curv Health is a multidisciplinary virtual clinic founded in 2017, with offices located in Toronto and Halifax. The company provides a health technology platform that enables healthcare providers to create and manage their own digital practices. Curv Health focuses on enhancing mental performance coaching accessibility, allowing young athletes to receive comprehensive support for their mental health. Through its platform, patients can schedule both virtual and in-person sessions with a range of allied healthcare professionals, including physiotherapists, dietitians, psychotherapists, and counselors. By facilitating this digital care network, Curv Health aims to improve the overall well-being of individuals and increase the number of meaningful years lived globally.

Potential Motors

Seed Round in 2022
Potential Motors Inc. is a Canadian company founded in 2018, specializing in software solutions that enhance the safety and performance of vehicles through artificial intelligence and computer vision. The company has developed RallyAI, a platform designed to optimize vehicle control by analyzing both off-road and on-road terrain in real-time using various camera systems. This technology allows vehicles to adapt their traction and suspension settings dynamically, improving overall performance and efficiency. Potential Motors collaborates with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) across several sectors, including motorcycles, powersports, defense, and automotive, to trial and refine its innovative solutions. Based in Hanwell, Canada, the company is committed to advancing vehicle capabilities in a variety of challenging environments.

TrojAI

Seed Round in 2022
TrojAI is a provider of an advanced AI security platform designed to safeguard artificial intelligence and machine learning applications and infrastructure. The platform offers a range of services, including model monitoring techniques and data transformation, which help defend against adversarial attacks while enhancing model accuracy and performance. Additionally, TrojAI features a forensically tracked archival repository system that protects customers' AI technologies from risks such as data poisoning and model evasion attacks. Developed by a team of data scientists and cybersecurity experts, TrojAI's solutions are tailored for large enterprises, ensuring scalability, performance, and extensibility to meet their security needs effectively.

Carbide

Seed Round in 2021
Carbide, formerly known as Securicy, makes enterprise-class security and privacy accessible to fast-growing companies. Unlike “checkbox-style” compliance solutions, our information security/privacy management platform enables customers to create, promote, and prove their commitment to security no matter which security framework or privacy regulation they wish to comply with.

Arcturus

Seed Round in 2021
Arcturus is a software company that specializes in the post-production and streaming of volumetric videos. The company's platform, Holosuite, enables creatives to finesse and amplify volumetric captures to fit artistic and production goals. HoloSuite is designed to author, edit, and stream volumetrically captured performers so that producers can create immersive virtual and augmented reality experiences using live-action performances.

Potential Motors

Seed Round in 2020
Potential Motors Inc. is a Canadian company founded in 2018, specializing in software solutions that enhance the safety and performance of vehicles through artificial intelligence and computer vision. The company has developed RallyAI, a platform designed to optimize vehicle control by analyzing both off-road and on-road terrain in real-time using various camera systems. This technology allows vehicles to adapt their traction and suspension settings dynamically, improving overall performance and efficiency. Potential Motors collaborates with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) across several sectors, including motorcycles, powersports, defense, and automotive, to trial and refine its innovative solutions. Based in Hanwell, Canada, the company is committed to advancing vehicle capabilities in a variety of challenging environments.

ProcedureFlow

Venture Round in 2019
ProcedureFlow is a subscription-based SaaS company that specializes in providing a cloud-based workflow management platform. Its software enables organizations to create visual maps of complex operating procedures, policies, and information, presented as easy-to-follow, hyperlinked flowcharts. By structuring instructions into manageable segments, ProcedureFlow enhances employee training and proficiency, allowing staff to access critical information efficiently and effectively. This approach not only accelerates the onboarding process but also leverages the knowledge of senior resources to empower employees with the expertise they need, ultimately boosting their confidence in performing tasks.

Resson

Series C in 2018
Resson is a bioinformatics and data analytics company based in Fredericton, New Brunswick, specializing in customized agriculture solutions for large corporate clients. The company employs advanced technologies such as cloud-based data processing, swarm robotics, computer vision, and machine learning to enhance agricultural productivity. Its proprietary platform, the Resson Agricultural Management and Analytics System, analyzes crop metrics to assess the health and status of crops. By providing actionable insights derived from field data, Resson enables agricultural operators to optimize their operations, improve efficiency, increase yields, and maximize profitability.

Affinio

Series B in 2017
Affinio Inc is a marketing intelligence company that offers a platform designed to enhance understanding of consumer behavior through the analysis of the interest graph. Founded in 2011 and based in Halifax, Canada, Affinio utilizes advanced machine learning and a highly optimized graph engine to analyze large consumer data sets. This analysis uncovers naturally forming interest segments within audiences, enabling brands, agencies, media companies, and publishers to derive actionable insights. The platform identifies audience affinities, cultural influences, and engagement patterns, allowing clients to build effective marketing strategies tailored to their target demographics. Affinio's technology excels in revealing insights from both engaged and silent audience members, providing a comprehensive view of consumer interests. By leveraging these insights, clients can enhance their marketing planning and execution across various channels.

Radient360

Seed Round in 2017
Radient360 Solutions Inc., established in 2012 and based in St. John's, Canada, is an energy sector technology company specializing in operational solutions for the industry. The company offers a range of services including in-field inspection, maintenance, and auditing; process safety management; knowledge management; tool tracking; and logistics. Their core mission is to provide value-driven solutions that enable real-time execution in the field and real-time metrics in the office, enhancing clients' operational efficiency and asset visibility.

Muse

Series B in 2017
Muse, developed by InteraXon, is a neurotechnology company that produces a headband designed to provide real-time feedback on brain activity during meditation. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, the company specializes in brain-computer interfaces, utilizing research-grade ambulatory electroencephalograms and EEG sensors. Muse’s technology captures brainwaves and translates them into digital signals, which are then processed to deliver insights on mental activity, heart rate, breathing, and body movements. This data enables users to enhance their meditation practices and mindfulness, fostering a deeper connection with their mental and physical states. Through its innovative hardware and software platform, Muse aims to support users in achieving greater mental clarity and well-being.

Manifold.co

Series A in 2017
Manifold.co operates a cloud-based marketplace that simplifies the discovery, purchase, and management of developer services and tools for applications across various cloud environments. By addressing the complexities associated with micro-services and third-party infrastructure, Manifold enables clients to effectively configure and distribute their pricing plans from a central platform. The marketplace streamlines essential functions such as pricing, billing, identity management, and provisioning, thereby facilitating a more efficient application development and deployment process.

The Money Finder

Seed Round in 2017
The Money Finder Inc. is a financial technology company based in Halifax, Canada, that focuses on cash flow planning training for financial professionals. Founded in 2006, the company offers a comprehensive training program known as The Behavioural Cash Flow System, which includes the Certified Cash Flow Specialist (CCS) designation. This program equips financial advisors with the skills necessary to effectively manage and market cash flow planning. Alongside the training, The Money Finder provides marketing materials, ongoing support, and a directory listing certified professionals, fostering a community of knowledgeable advisors dedicated to enhancing their clients' financial well-being.

Dash Social

Seed Round in 2017
Dash Social is a developer of visual marketing software that assists brands in sharing impactful photos and videos. The platform enables clients to predict performance, distribute content, measure engagement, and enhance customer interactions across various marketing channels. By providing a comprehensive solution, Dash Social helps brands accelerate growth, analyze trends, and make informed decisions regarding their visual assets in both marketing and e-commerce contexts.

Resson

Series B in 2016
Resson is a bioinformatics and data analytics company based in Fredericton, New Brunswick, specializing in customized agriculture solutions for large corporate clients. The company employs advanced technologies such as cloud-based data processing, swarm robotics, computer vision, and machine learning to enhance agricultural productivity. Its proprietary platform, the Resson Agricultural Management and Analytics System, analyzes crop metrics to assess the health and status of crops. By providing actionable insights derived from field data, Resson enables agricultural operators to optimize their operations, improve efficiency, increase yields, and maximize profitability.

Fiddlehead

Seed Round in 2016
Fiddlehead Technology is a Canadian company that specializes in predictive forecasting through a machine-learning-based analytics platform. Founded by industry veterans David Baxter and Shawn Carver, Fiddlehead focuses on applying prescriptive analytics to address complex challenges in the food and beverage manufacturing sector. The company's platform enables businesses to anticipate customer behaviors and competitive actions, delivering insights that enhance demand planning. By providing more accurate demand forecasts, Fiddlehead helps companies reduce inventory levels, improve service quality, and enhance profit margins in a competitive global market.

Spring Loaded

Venture Round in 2016
Spring Loaded Technology Inc. is a Canadian company that specializes in the design and development of bionic knee braces aimed at enhancing leg strength and mobility. Its flagship product, the Levitation knee brace, is recognized as the world's first compact and powerful device that assists with knee extension while alleviating pain and joint compression. The company offers a variety of knee braces tailored for diverse applications, including athletic activities such as skiing, running, and cycling, as well as for individuals dealing with knee osteoarthritis, injuries, and mobility impairments. Spring Loaded's products are engineered to improve performance, reduce fatigue, and support individuals in daily activities, including skilled trades. Established in 2012 and based in Dartmouth, Canada, the company prioritizes the intersection of research and development to create innovative solutions that enhance quality of life. Its products are available for purchase online.

icejam

Seed Round in 2016
Icejam is a Canadian mobile game development company based in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, known for creating innovative free-to-play games. Founded by Stuart Duncan, a former leader at EA Mobile, Icejam leverages a team with a rich background in mobile gaming, having developed popular titles such as NHL PowerShot Hockey, Trade Nations, NBA Jam, and The Simpsons: Tapped Out. The company focuses on integrating real-time data from players’ surroundings into its games, utilizing a unique gameplay engine that processes contextual information such as location, time, sound, light, movement, and various real-world data streams. This approach allows players to engage in a connected reality experience while gaming. With private capital funding and support from regional development agencies, Icejam is poised to make a significant impact in the free-to-play mobile gaming sector.

Affinio

Series A in 2015
Affinio Inc is a marketing intelligence company that offers a platform designed to enhance understanding of consumer behavior through the analysis of the interest graph. Founded in 2011 and based in Halifax, Canada, Affinio utilizes advanced machine learning and a highly optimized graph engine to analyze large consumer data sets. This analysis uncovers naturally forming interest segments within audiences, enabling brands, agencies, media companies, and publishers to derive actionable insights. The platform identifies audience affinities, cultural influences, and engagement patterns, allowing clients to build effective marketing strategies tailored to their target demographics. Affinio's technology excels in revealing insights from both engaged and silent audience members, providing a comprehensive view of consumer interests. By leveraging these insights, clients can enhance their marketing planning and execution across various channels.

AirVM

Series A in 2015
The AirVM solution addresses the global ICT need to better manage and monetize cloud services across different hybrid cloud technologies. The AirVM platform focuses on business management, allowing enterprises and managed service providers to leverage multiple private and public cloud technologies.

Introhive

Series B in 2015
Introhive, Inc. is a Canadian technology company based in Fredericton, New Brunswick, that specializes in developing contact mining software applications. Founded in 2012 by Jody Glidden and Stewart Walchli, the company offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform designed to enhance revenue generation and improve customer experience management. Introhive's platform integrates relationship intelligence into customer relationship management (CRM) systems, utilizing data automation to accelerate sales processes. The company's enterprise relationship management solution provides valuable insights into client and prospect relationships, streamlining tasks such as sales hiring, prospecting, territory assignment, renewals, and lead scoring. By transforming disorganized data into actionable insights, Introhive aims to boost productivity and facilitate CRM adoption for its clients.

Celtx

Venture Round in 2015
Celtx is a pioneering company in the media pre-production industry, offering an all-in-one digital system that streamlines traditional paper-based processes. The platform provides tools for creating scripts, storyboards, shot lists, scene breakdowns, and crew reports, catering to various fields including film, video, theatre, animation, radio, and new media. By digitizing these workflows, Celtx enhances collaboration, simplifies planning, and facilitates easier sharing among production teams.

Resson

Series A in 2014
Resson is a bioinformatics and data analytics company based in Fredericton, New Brunswick, specializing in customized agriculture solutions for large corporate clients. The company employs advanced technologies such as cloud-based data processing, swarm robotics, computer vision, and machine learning to enhance agricultural productivity. Its proprietary platform, the Resson Agricultural Management and Analytics System, analyzes crop metrics to assess the health and status of crops. By providing actionable insights derived from field data, Resson enables agricultural operators to optimize their operations, improve efficiency, increase yields, and maximize profitability.

Smart Skin Technologies

Series A in 2014
Smart Skin Technologies Inc. is a technology development company founded in 2009 and headquartered in Fredericton, Canada, with an additional office in Munich, Germany. The company specializes in the development and commercialization of innovative pressure-sensitive skin technology. Its flagship product, Quantifeel, is a packaging pressure monitoring system designed to measure line pressure and 3D orientation across various packaging formats, including glass, cans, and PET. Smart Skin Technologies is also focused on advancing its patent-pending pressure sensing technology for applications in industrial settings and sports, showcasing the versatility and potential of its unique touch-sensitive materials across multiple verticals.

Affinion Group

Venture Round in 2013
Affinion Group Holdings, Inc. specializes in designing, marketing, and servicing customer engagement and loyalty solutions on a global scale. The company operates through three main segments: Global Loyalty, Global Customer Engagement, and Legacy Membership and Package. It develops programs that motivate consumer loyalty and administers various aspects of clients' points-based loyalty programs, including design, analytics, and fulfillment. Affinion also offers customer engagement solutions such as identity theft protection, credit monitoring, and savings on everyday purchases, catering to sectors like financial services, telecommunications, and travel. Founded in 1973 and headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, Affinion Group has over 35 years of experience and supports more than 5,500 marketing partners worldwide, employing approximately 3,900 individuals across the United States and 12 other countries. The company is recognized for its commitment to high information security standards and compliance.

Tactics Cloud

Seed Round in 2013
Tactics Cloud provides sales and marketing insights using billions of strands of publicly available social and business data to help identify individuals and groups with common skills, interests, and relationships. Unlike social media monitoring solutions, Tactics Cloud focuses on social network connections to provide unique insights

Introhive

Series B in 2013
Introhive, Inc. is a Canadian technology company based in Fredericton, New Brunswick, that specializes in developing contact mining software applications. Founded in 2012 by Jody Glidden and Stewart Walchli, the company offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform designed to enhance revenue generation and improve customer experience management. Introhive's platform integrates relationship intelligence into customer relationship management (CRM) systems, utilizing data automation to accelerate sales processes. The company's enterprise relationship management solution provides valuable insights into client and prospect relationships, streamlining tasks such as sales hiring, prospecting, territory assignment, renewals, and lead scoring. By transforming disorganized data into actionable insights, Introhive aims to boost productivity and facilitate CRM adoption for its clients.
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