Build Ventures

Build Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Halifax, Canada, founded in May 2013. The firm specializes in early-stage investments in technology companies primarily located in Atlantic Canada, focusing on sectors such as information technology, clean technology, and life sciences. Build Ventures typically invests between CAD 1 million and CAD 5 million, with initial contributions ranging from CAD 0.5 million to CAD 2 million, preferring to engage with companies after their seed round. The firm is dedicated to supporting founders in building impactful businesses and leverages its team’s extensive operational and investment experience to guide startups through their growth journey.

Keefe, Patrick E.

Partner and Founder

29 past transactions

trophi.ai

Seed Round in 2023
trophi.ai is an e-sports coaching company and provides coaching regardless of their location or income, leveling the playing field.

PayTic

Seed Round in 2022
PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of the number of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments.

Curv Health

Seed Round in 2022
Curv Health is a multidisciplinary virtual clinic that gives healthcare providers the ability to build and run their own practice. It aims to increase the number of meaningful years lived globally. Curv Health was established in 2017 and has offices in Toronto and Halifax.

Potential Motors

Seed Round in 2022
Potential Motors is using computer vision to enable vehicles to go anywhere. They have built software that works with a variety of cameras to analyze off and on-road terrain in real-time which is then used in the vehicle to change traction and suspension settings to improve performance and efficiency. They are currently working with OEMs in Motorcycles, Powersports, Defence, and Automotive to trial their technology.

TrojAI

Seed Round in 2022
TrojAI provides a comprehensive AI security platform to protect AI/ML applications and infrastructure. The best-in-class platform empowers enterprises to safeguard applications from real-time threats with TrojAI's firewall. Penetration test models and remediation guidance delivered prior to deployment further mitigate risk. Built by data scientists and cybersecurity experts, TrojAI meets the needs of the largest enterprises with scalability, performance, and extensibility.

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 is using computer vision to enable vehicles to go anywhere. They have built software that works with a variety of cameras to analyze off and on-road terrain in real-time which is then used in the vehicle to change traction and suspension settings to improve performance and efficiency. They are currently working with OEMs in Motorcycles, Powersports, Defence, and Automotive to trial their technology.

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.

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.

Affinio

Series B in 2017
They all use social listening tools to understand and hear their audiences, but did you know that less than 10% of social media users actually speak or engage regularly? The rest of your audience listens but rarely makes a noise and they are the first audience insights tool to reveal the other 90%. Behind Affinio is an incredibly powerful award-winning technology that lets us mine billions of relational network connections. Your audience is connected regardless of whether they engage or remain silent, allowing us to extract deep insights from the silent majority. Affino’s algorithm analyzes the relationships that exist within any audience and groups individuals into passion clusters based on member affinities and the people, topics, and brands that these individuals choose to connect with. From this analysis, Affinio is able to reveal untapped insights that exist within each audience segment. This sheds light for the first time on who each segment is, what they are influenced by, talk about, share, and ultimately care most about. Their clients, who range from start-ups to Fortune 500 brands, use Affinio’s unprecedented actionable insights as a platform to build effective, winning, marketing strategies. Affinio’s graph engine is highly-optimized for I/O efficiency and maximizing processing speed on solid state drives (SSD), creating one of the fastest graph analysis and machine learning technologies in the world. Affinio is using both random forest and deep learning models in the development of their social affinity engine.

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.

Muse

Series B in 2017
Muse has developed brainwave-controlled computing technology and applications that converts brainwaves into digital signals. 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 is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.

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.

The Money Finder

Seed Round in 2017
The Money Finder specializes in cash flow planning training programs but we don’t just want the advisors who choose us to memorize something, we want them to use it. We don’t just want them to pass the test, we want them to share the wealth. And we want them to know how to market their new skills.

Dash Social

Seed Round in 2017
Social media management software.

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.

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.

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.

icejam

Seed Round in 2016
Free-to-play mobile games needs a big idea and icejam is making it happen. Founded by former EA Mobile leader, Stuart Duncan, icejam is located in Canada’s mobile games hub in Charlottetown PEI. Creativity flourishes in the state-of-the-art mobile games studio located in its historic loft like setting almost within a stones throw from the ocean. icejam leadership brings a great heritage in mobile games with its management team having delivered game titles such as NHL PowerShot Hockey, Trade Nations, NBA Jam, and The Simpsons: Tapped Out. With a runway secured by private capital including investment by Build Ventures and financial backing from Innovation PEI and ACOA, icejam is taking on the world of F2P mobile games once again.

Affinio

Series A in 2015
They all use social listening tools to understand and hear their audiences, but did you know that less than 10% of social media users actually speak or engage regularly? The rest of your audience listens but rarely makes a noise and they are the first audience insights tool to reveal the other 90%. Behind Affinio is an incredibly powerful award-winning technology that lets us mine billions of relational network connections. Your audience is connected regardless of whether they engage or remain silent, allowing us to extract deep insights from the silent majority. Affino’s algorithm analyzes the relationships that exist within any audience and groups individuals into passion clusters based on member affinities and the people, topics, and brands that these individuals choose to connect with. From this analysis, Affinio is able to reveal untapped insights that exist within each audience segment. This sheds light for the first time on who each segment is, what they are influenced by, talk about, share, and ultimately care most about. Their clients, who range from start-ups to Fortune 500 brands, use Affinio’s unprecedented actionable insights as a platform to build effective, winning, marketing strategies. Affinio’s graph engine is highly-optimized for I/O efficiency and maximizing processing speed on solid state drives (SSD), creating one of the fastest graph analysis and machine learning technologies in the world. Affinio is using both random forest and deep learning models in the development of their social affinity engine.

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 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.

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.

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.

Smart Skin Technologies

Series A in 2014
Smart Skin Technologies is commercializing a unique touch sensitive material that has applications in many verticals. The company is currently focused on developing patent pending pressure sensing technology for use industrial and applications in sports.

Affinion Group

Venture Round in 2013
Affinion Group is a prominent provider of customer engagement and loyalty solutions, operating globally to enhance consumer relationships with major companies. Established in 1973 and headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, the company focuses on designing, marketing, and servicing programs that inspire loyalty across various sectors, including financial services, telecommunications, and travel. Affinion operates through three main segments: Global Loyalty, Global Customer Engagement, and Legacy Membership and Package. Its offerings include points-based loyalty programs, identity theft protection, credit monitoring, concierge services, and various insurance products. With a workforce of approximately 3,900 employees and a presence in 16 countries, Affinion serves over 5,550 marketing partners, leveraging technology platforms and customer service capabilities to fulfill client needs. The company is recognized for its commitment to information security, holding ISO 27001 certification and maintaining compliance with PCI standards.

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 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.
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