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

Past deals in New Brunswick

Potential Motors

Seed Round in 2022
Potential Motors Inc. is a Canadian company established in 2018, focused on developing innovative software solutions that enhance the safety and performance of automobiles through artificial intelligence and computer vision. Their flagship product, RallyAI, is a platform designed to provide vehicle control by analyzing real-time data from various cameras to assess both off-road and on-road terrain. This analysis enables vehicles to adjust traction and suspension settings dynamically, thereby improving performance and efficiency. Potential Motors collaborates with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) across diverse sectors, including motorcycles, powersports, defense, and automotive, to trial and implement their advanced technology.

TrojAI

Seed Round in 2022
TrojAI offers an advanced AI security platform specifically designed to protect artificial intelligence and machine learning applications and their underlying infrastructure. The platform includes features such as a firewall to defend against real-time threats, penetration test models, and remediation guidance to reduce risks before deployment. Developed by a team of data scientists and cybersecurity professionals, TrojAI enables enterprises to enhance the security of their AI systems through services like data transformation and model monitoring. These capabilities help defend against adversarial attacks while also improving model accuracy and performance. TrojAI's comprehensive approach includes a forensically tracked archival repository system, ensuring robust protection against data poisoning and model evasion attacks, making it suitable for large-scale enterprise needs.

Potential Motors

Seed Round in 2020
Potential Motors Inc. is a Canadian company established in 2018, focused on developing innovative software solutions that enhance the safety and performance of automobiles through artificial intelligence and computer vision. Their flagship product, RallyAI, is a platform designed to provide vehicle control by analyzing real-time data from various cameras to assess both off-road and on-road terrain. This analysis enables vehicles to adjust traction and suspension settings dynamically, thereby improving performance and efficiency. Potential Motors collaborates with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) across diverse sectors, including motorcycles, powersports, defense, and automotive, to trial and implement their advanced 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 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.

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 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.

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.

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 based in Fredericton, Canada, with an additional office in Munich, Germany. Founded in 2009, the company specializes in the development and commercialization of a pressure-sensitive skin technology that has diverse applications. Its flagship product, Quantifeel, is a packaging pressure monitoring system designed to measure line pressure and 3D orientation in various types of packaging, including glass, cans, and PET. In addition to its existing products, Smart Skin Technologies is actively developing patent-pending pressure sensing technology for industrial applications and sports, aiming to expand its footprint across multiple verticals.

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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