Build Ventures

The mission at Build Ventures is to help founders build companies. Period. They provide early stage capital to emerging, game-changing Atlantic Canadian technology companies. Their team has deep operational and investment experience. The startup journey can be challenging, but they know what it takes and they are here to help. They’re based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and are focused on companies in Atlantic Canada. They like to invest after your seed round. Ideally, you have begun to build a great team, have a product solving a meaningful problem and are working in what is – or one day will become -- a huge market.
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Rob Barbara

General Partner

Patrick E. Keefe

General Partner

29 past transactions

Curv Labs Inc

Seed Round in 2022
Curv is a platform of AI-powered tools for building and tracking athletic talent. Curv has taken this hardware problem and solved it with software by transforming the camera on any mobile device into an accurate & versatile tool to measure human movement. Curv is a web and mobile platform that allows anyone to extract simple and informative physical health & performance metrics though the video taken on their mobile device. Over the next 12 months, Curv’s products will impact 70% of NBA teams and over 700 Universities and colleges as they aim to qualify injury risk, and millions of recreational runners around the world as they strive to healthy running form.

TrojAI

Seed Round in 2022
TrojAI is developing solutions to protect artificial intelligence platforms from adversarial attacks on training data and AI models, such as poisoning or embedded Trojan and evasion attacks. Focused on computer vision platforms, the data transformation and model monitoring techniques developed by TrojAI not only aid in the defence against such attacks, but in some cases also provide incremental improvements in model accuracy and performance. TrojAI’s secure cloud SaaS service also includes a forensically tracked archival repository system to provide customers with a complete solution for peace of mind AI security and brand protection.

The Money Finder Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
The Money Finder Inc., a financial technology company, provides Cash Flow Planning training for financial professionals. It offers The Behavioural Cash Flow System that includes Certified Cash flow Specialist (CCS) designation training, marketing materials, support, and software; and CCS Directory lists a sampling of the financial professionals enrolled in the training. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Halifax, Canada.

Potential Motors

Seed Round in 2022
Potential Motors is a software company that uses Artificial Intelligence to boost vehicle safety and performance. The RallyAI Vehicle Control System is a software platform that provides an unprecedented level of vehicle control, making vehicles much more capable, more resilient to changing conditions, and much safer than with other approaches.

Securicy

Seed Round in 2021
Securicy Data Solutions Ltd. develops web-based software that enables companies to build and implement cyber security policies. The company offers software-as-a-service product for small and mid-sized businesses. It offers virtual consultant, implementation tools, learning management and awareness training, and compliance management and reporting services. It enables users to create policies and procedures to protect their data and IT infrastructure. The company was formerly known as Arista Data Solutions Ltd. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Sydney, Canada.

IntroHive, Inc.

Series B in 2015
Introhive offers a SaaS platform that helps organizations increase revenues and improve customer experience management. Its platform brings relationship intelligence into CRM with data automation and sales acceleration. The company also provides an enterprise relationship management (ERM) solution that helps get relationship insights and boost productivity. It was founded in 2012 by Jody Glidden and Stewart Walchli and is based in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
InteraXon is the maker of brainwave-controlled computing technology and applications. They have created a hardware and software platform technology that converts brainwaves into digital signals that are fed into a computer. InteraXon then provides consumers with applications that use these brainwaves to perform activities such as meditation, gaming, ADHD assistance, and many others to come. The company was founded in 2007 and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.

Celtx

Venture Round in 2015
Celtx is the world's first all-in-one media pre-production system. It replaces 'paper & binder' pre-production with a digital approach that's more complete, simpler to work with, and easier to share.

Affinio Inc

Series B in 2017
Affinio Inc develops marketing intelligence platform that leverages the interest graph to understand today's consumers. It develops Data Science as a Service platform that offers visualization for cross-channel behavioral insights data and cultural intelligence for brands. The company’s platform enables users to discover and explore audience segments, analyze and understand cultural fingerprints, and generate audience driven creative and strategy. It offers solutions in the areas of audience, influencers, content, advertising, research, and competitors. The company serves brands, agencies, media companies, and publishers around the world. Affinio Inc was formerly known as 3259541 Nova Scotia Limited and changed its name to Affinio Inc in August 2013. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Halifax, Canada.

Resson

Series B in 2016
Resson Aerospace is a bioinformatics and data analytics company, delivering customized agriculture solutions for large corporate clients. Utilizing recent advances in large-scale cloud-based data processing, swarm robotics, and advanced data analytics, its proprietary Resson Agricultural Management and Analytics System gives the agricultural operator analytical insight and dynamic control over the farm area. Resson Aerospace’s Resson Agricultural Management and Analytics System, data-driven agriculture solution, analyzes crop metrics to assess crop status and health, providing operators with the information required to optimize agricultural operations, improve efficiency, boost yields, and maximize profitability. It is headquartered in Fredericton, N.B.

icejam games inc.

Seed Round in 2016
icejam games inc. develops 3D and free-to-play mobile games. It creates mobile games using its Playable Data Platform that integrates real-time data streams into the mobile game to enhance gameplay, while solving key engagement and retention dilemmas that are faced by the mobile games industry. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Charlottetown, Canada.

Affinio Inc

Series A in 2015
Affinio Inc develops marketing intelligence platform that leverages the interest graph to understand today's consumers. It develops Data Science as a Service platform that offers visualization for cross-channel behavioral insights data and cultural intelligence for brands. The company’s platform enables users to discover and explore audience segments, analyze and understand cultural fingerprints, and generate audience driven creative and strategy. It offers solutions in the areas of audience, influencers, content, advertising, research, and competitors. The company serves brands, agencies, media companies, and publishers around the world. Affinio Inc was formerly known as 3259541 Nova Scotia Limited and changed its name to Affinio Inc in August 2013. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Halifax, Canada.

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

Fiddlehead Technology

Seed Round in 2016
Fiddlehead Technology is taking the art and science of predictive forecasting to a new level. Founded by two highly respected veterans of Canada’s Information Technology sector, David Baxter and Shawn Carver, Fiddlehead works with prescriptive analytics to find elegant solutions to some of the food and beverage manufacturing industry’s most complex problems. The result is more accurate demand forecasts, allowing companies to lower inventory, achieve higher levels of service, and improve their margins in an increasingly complex global market.

AirVM Inc.

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.

Affinion Group

Venture Round in 2013
Affinion Insurance Solutions is a provider of marketing and insurance administration expertise to financial institutions. Affinion Insurance Solutions is a business services platform with deep expertise in the distribution, marketing and administration of a broad range of simplified, guaranteed-issue insurance products.

Manifold.co

Series A in 2017
Manifold allows you to discover, buy, and manage the best developer services for your application, regardless of cloud. Manifold is on a mission to reduce the complexity of building and deploying applications with micro-services and third-party infrastructure services.

Potential Motors

Seed Round in 2020
Potential Motors is a software company that uses Artificial Intelligence to boost vehicle safety and performance. The RallyAI Vehicle Control System is a software platform that provides an unprecedented level of vehicle control, making vehicles much more capable, more resilient to changing conditions, and much safer than with other approaches.

radient360

Seed Round in 2017
Radient360 Solutions is an energy sector technology company offering operational solutions including: in-field inspection, maintenance & auditing services; process safety; knowledge management; and logistics. Their mission: value-driven solutions that provide real-time execution in the field and real-time metrics in the office.

Dash Hudson

Seed Round in 2017
The world’s raddest, most discerning brands and publishers use Dash Hudson to create and share photos and videos that people care about. Our visual intelligence platform provides a one-stop solution to predict performance, distribute, measure, and enhance engagement across all of your visual marketing channels.
Smart Skin Technologies Inc. operates as a technology development company that develops and commercializes a pressure-sensitive skin technology for various applications. It offers Quantifeel, packaging pressure monitoring system for measuring line pressure and 3D orientation in glass, can, PET, and other secondary and tertiary packaging lines. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Fredericton, Canada with an additional office in Munich, Germany.

ProcedureFlow

Venture Round in 2019
ProcedureFlow is a subscription based SaaS software that provides employees with a visual map of complex operating procedures and information. It presents easy to follow step-by- step instructions structured into small, hyperlinked flowcharts. ProcedureFlow makes your employees experts faster by combining information with the knowledge and experience of your most senior resources, ensuring your employees have access to the information they need exactly when they need it.

IntroHive, Inc.

Series B in 2013
Introhive offers a SaaS platform that helps organizations increase revenues and improve customer experience management. Its platform brings relationship intelligence into CRM with data automation and sales acceleration. The company also provides an enterprise relationship management (ERM) solution that helps get relationship insights and boost productivity. It was founded in 2012 by Jody Glidden and Stewart Walchli and is based in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Resson

Series C in 2018
Resson Aerospace is a bioinformatics and data analytics company, delivering customized agriculture solutions for large corporate clients. Utilizing recent advances in large-scale cloud-based data processing, swarm robotics, and advanced data analytics, its proprietary Resson Agricultural Management and Analytics System gives the agricultural operator analytical insight and dynamic control over the farm area. Resson Aerospace’s Resson Agricultural Management and Analytics System, data-driven agriculture solution, analyzes crop metrics to assess crop status and health, providing operators with the information required to optimize agricultural operations, improve efficiency, boost yields, and maximize profitability. It is headquartered in Fredericton, N.B.

Resson

Series A in 2014
Resson Aerospace is a bioinformatics and data analytics company, delivering customized agriculture solutions for large corporate clients. Utilizing recent advances in large-scale cloud-based data processing, swarm robotics, and advanced data analytics, its proprietary Resson Agricultural Management and Analytics System gives the agricultural operator analytical insight and dynamic control over the farm area. Resson Aerospace’s Resson Agricultural Management and Analytics System, data-driven agriculture solution, analyzes crop metrics to assess crop status and health, providing operators with the information required to optimize agricultural operations, improve efficiency, boost yields, and maximize profitability. It is headquartered in Fredericton, N.B.

Spring Loaded Technology

Venture Round in 2016
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.