Toucan is a company based in Santa Monica, California, founded in 2019, that focuses on language learning through a browser extension. This extension allows users to translate words and phrases into various languages while they browse the web, facilitating language acquisition in a natural context. By integrating translations into everyday online activities, Toucan helps users expand their vocabulary without the need for traditional methods such as flashcards or formal classes. The company employs specialists in habit formation, learning, and human behavior to optimize the learning experience, making it more accessible and engaging for users.
NextGen Blockchain Technologies
Venture Round in 2020
NextGen Blockchain Technologies Ltd. is a Canadian company founded in 2018 that specializes in cryptocurrency mining services and the development of crypto protocols and software applications. The company provides hosting for master nodes, which play a crucial role in securing blockchain networks, particularly for alternative consensus coins. Additionally, NextGen focuses on enhancing the infrastructure for cryptocurrency asset trading, offering decentralized finance protocols and applications that facilitate improved trading experiences for users. Through its innovative solutions, NextGen aims to drive advancements in the cryptocurrency space.
Trust & Will
Series A in 2019
Founded in 2017, Trust & Will simplifies estate planning through its digital platform. It offers attorney-approved, state-specific tools for creating legally valid wills and trusts, ensuring secure data protection with SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance.
GoBolt, formerly known as Second Closet Incorporated, provides valet self-storage services that enable customers to store their belongings conveniently and securely. Founded in 2017 and based in Toronto, Canada, the company offers a comprehensive solution where customers can schedule pickups and returns of their items. GoBolt delivers boxes for customers to use for storage, then collects these items to be stored in a climate-controlled warehouse. The service is designed to be user-friendly, allowing clients to pay only for the space they utilize, making it an affordable option for those in need of storage solutions.
Steereo
Seed Round in 2019
Steereo Inc. operates a music discovery platform tailored for rideshare drivers, enabling them to entertain passengers with new music during their journeys. Founded in 2017 and based in New York, the company aims to empower artists by providing them with a unique avenue to market their music and connect with new audiences. Through its application, Steereo facilitates exposure for various artists while offering drivers opportunities to earn additional income and rewards. The service is currently available in key markets such as New York and Austin, Texas, creating impactful brand connections and enhancing the rideshare experience.
AdHawk Microsystems
Series B in 2019
Founded in 2015, AdHawk Microsystems develops eye tracking technology using micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), replacing traditional cameras for enhanced speed and power efficiency. Its full-stack solution enables integration into extended reality devices, wearables, and clinical instruments, unlocking insights into human cognition.
StyleRow
Seed Round in 2019
Founded in 2018, StyleRow is a design company that simplifies the design process for professionals. Its online platform connects high-end brands, showrooms, designers, and architects, facilitating project management, collaboration, and purchasing.
Second Closet
Seed Round in 2019
Second Closet Incorporated is a Toronto-based company founded in 2017 that specializes in valet self-storage services. The company offers a convenient solution for individuals looking to store their belongings by providing boxes for customers to fill with items, which are then picked up and transported to a climate-controlled warehouse. Customers are charged only for the space they actually utilize, making the service both efficient and cost-effective.
Gimme360 Technologies
Venture Round in 2019
Gimme360 Technologies is an augmented reality solutions firm that specializes in creating custom AR experiences tailored to the specific needs of its clients. The company offers an advanced platform that enables users to develop augmented reality content without requiring any coding skills. Through its cloud-based software, Gimme360 allows users to connect with affiliated clients and facilitates the creation of scalable applications. This platform empowers users to publish and share their 3D assets, effectively enhancing collaboration among AR developers and designers. By leveraging cutting-edge technology, Gimme360 is positioned to disrupt the digital media landscape, particularly within the mobile augmented reality market.
Chatkit
Venture Round in 2019
Chatkit Inc. is a Toronto-based company founded in 2016 that specializes in conversational marketing. It provides an AI-driven chatbot platform designed for social marketers, retailers, and Shopify merchants, enabling brands to manage and automate customer conversations across various messaging channels, including Facebook Messenger. By facilitating dynamic, two-way dialogues, Chatkit helps businesses enhance customer engagement and build lasting relationships. The platform also measures customer interaction and the effectiveness of products, empowering companies to boost sales and foster customer loyalty.
Monica+Andy
Series A in 2018
Monica+Andy operates an online platform specializing in baby clothing, offering a range of GOTS-certified organic apparel and accessories. Founded in 2014 by Monica Royer, a first-time mother, the brand focuses on providing soft, sustainable essentials that prioritize both the well-being of children and environmental responsibility. The company emphasizes a seamless shopping experience for parents, featuring both an online store and physical Guideshops. Monica+Andy is dedicated to creating a community that values safe, non-toxic materials, ensuring that their products are free from pesticides and harmful chemicals. Through its commitment to quality and sustainability, the brand aims to support real-life families while fostering a better future for both babies and the planet.
The Flex
Seed Round in 2018
The Flex Company, established in 2015 and headquartered in Venice, California, specializes in the development, manufacturing, and sale of single-use menstrual devices. Its product portfolio includes the Flex Cup, a disposable and disc-shaped device that temporarily blocks menstrual blood flow, and the Flex Disc, a one-time use period product with a 12-hour wear duration. The company's products are sold online and through retailers in the United States and Canada, with a presence in over 25,000 retail locations nationwide.
Live Tinted
Seed Round in 2018
Founded in 2018, Live Tinted is a digital community based in Los Angeles, California. It aims to represent and include all shades of skin tones in the beauty industry, addressing the gaps felt by many despite progress made towards diversity. The company offers personalized beauty products that can be used as color correctors, eyeshadows, blushes, or lipsticks, catering to individual needs and promoting authentic representation.
Influicity
Series A in 2018
Influicity operates an influencer marketing platform for marketers, agencies and publishers, providing data and insights on influencers and enabling users to search, book, measure, and collaborate with influencers across YouTube, Twitter, Instagram and other social networks. The platform connects advertisers with content creators and distributors for product placements and campaigns, while supporting collaboration among marketers, media buyers, advertising sales teams, production companies, publishers, talent representatives and studios. Influicity aims to transform influencer campaigns into measurable media operations through its combination of marketing technology, data analytics and artificial intelligence. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Toronto, with an office in Los Angeles.
Tea Drops
Seed Round in 2018
Tea Drops is an innovative, woman-owned company based in Los Angeles, producing dissolvable, organic shaped teas. Their products are USDA certified organic, GMO-free, gluten-free, and free of artificial/natural flavors. Tea Drops offers a variety of blends including caffeinated and caffeine-free options, collaboration teas, natural wellness teas, and bath and body teas.
Sarah Flint
Venture Round in 2018
Founded in 2013, Sarah Flint designs and sells luxury shoes for women. Its product range includes flats, sandals, pumps, and boots, all crafted by Italian artisans. The company operates both online and offline stores, focusing on quality, fit, and functionality to empower women with busy lifestyles.
Popshop Live
Pre Seed Round in 2018
Popshop Live is a mobile live streaming marketplace that lets individuals create and host their own shopping channels to sell directly to a global audience. Viewers interact with broadcasters in real time during streams and can access storefronts and archived shows, enabling an interactive and convenient shopping experience.
Carbon38 is an e-commerce company specializing in performance fashion for women. Based in Los Angeles, California, it was founded in 2012. The company offers its own proprietary label alongside a carefully selected range of contemporary brands, providing items such as bodysuits, sweaters, leggings, and shoes. Carbon38 aims to blend functional activewear with progressive street style, offering women bold fashion choices through its online platform and physical stores.
Squad is a San Francisco-based company that offers a web-based platform designed to facilitate social interaction among users. The platform allows friends to connect and spend time together by enabling video and audio chats while sharing their screens. Users can showcase various content from their devices, including messages and videos from apps like TikTok, creating an immersive shared experience. Additionally, Squad features an AMA (ask me anything) function, which aggregates information from various online profiles, making it easily accessible in one central location. This blend of social engagement and information sharing positions Squad as a versatile tool for enhancing digital interactions.
Casalova
Venture Round in 2017
Casalova offers a personalized and streamlined approach to finding your next rental home. They can not only match you into homes that you'll love but also algorithmically suggest neighbourhoods that will make you the happiest based on your interests, personality, and demographics. Tell them what you want in a home and a little about yourself, and they take care of the rest. Their solution is unique and different because they close the gap in the fragmented rental market and do so by a seamless user experience and an algorithm-based approach.
Features include: neighbourhood matching, listing search, messaging, viewings, applications, credit reports, and rent payments.
ROSS Intelligence
Venture Round in 2017
ROSS Intelligence is a company that develops artificial intelligence tools specifically designed to enhance the capabilities of lawyers. Its flagship product, ROSS, serves as an AI-driven legal research platform that utilizes natural language processing to answer legal queries and assist legal teams in navigating case law efficiently. By streamlining the research process, ROSS Intelligence enables lawyers to focus on more complex tasks, ultimately improving their productivity and decision-making. The company's clientele includes leading law firms and corporate legal departments both in the United States and internationally. With operations based in Toronto, San Francisco, and New York, ROSS Intelligence aims to revolutionize the legal profession by creating advanced AI solutions that augment lawyers' cognitive abilities.
CreditGenie
Seed Round in 2017
CreditGenie Inc., founded in 2016 and based in Toronto, Canada, develops a digital platform that specializes in loan adjudication and point-of-sale financing solutions. The company focuses on providing small and mid-sized businesses in the retail and medical sectors with the tools to offer financing options to their customers for significant purchases. By enabling instant credit approvals, CreditGenie's solution allows customers to split their purchases into manageable monthly payments. This approach not only assists businesses in acquiring new customers but also helps to increase their average transaction value. CreditGenie's services are offered at no cost to businesses and do not require integration, ensuring a seamless experience for its partners. As of May 2019, CreditGenie operates as a subsidiary of Purpose Financial LP.
GLAMSQUAD
Venture Round in 2017
Founded in 2013, GLAMSQUAD is a New York-based company specializing in on-demand beauty services. It offers hair styling and makeup services through trained professionals who visit clients at their homes, offices, or events across major U.S. cities. The company also retails its own line of hair care products.
Founded in 2007, Hopper is a Montreal-based company that develops a mobile application using big data to predict and analyze airfares and accommodations. It provides travel recommendations and notifies users when prices are at their predicted lowest points.
Hubba, established in Toronto, Canada in 2011, operates a software platform designed to connect brands with retailers. Its core service enables brand marketers to digitally showcase their product portfolio, create comprehensive product stories by aggregating information and media, and share this content securely with retail partners. The platform facilitates synchronization of product data across multiple channels, provides visibility into how products are presented by retailers, and offers customizable access controls for partners. Hubba currently supports over 75,000 small to medium-sized businesses.
Urbery is a same-day grocery delivery service that utilizes a network of crowdsourced personal grocery shoppers, known as Grocery Gurus, to fulfill customer orders. The company offers an online platform where users can conveniently order groceries and alcohol, with delivery typically occurring within two hours. By streamlining the shopping process, Urbery enables customers to access essential items quickly and affordably, enhancing the overall convenience of grocery shopping.
Casalova
Seed Round in 2016
Casalova offers a personalized and streamlined approach to finding your next rental home. They can not only match you into homes that you'll love but also algorithmically suggest neighbourhoods that will make you the happiest based on your interests, personality, and demographics. Tell them what you want in a home and a little about yourself, and they take care of the rest. Their solution is unique and different because they close the gap in the fragmented rental market and do so by a seamless user experience and an algorithm-based approach.
Features include: neighbourhood matching, listing search, messaging, viewings, applications, credit reports, and rent payments.
CreditGenie
Seed Round in 2016
CreditGenie Inc., founded in 2016 and based in Toronto, Canada, develops a digital platform that specializes in loan adjudication and point-of-sale financing solutions. The company focuses on providing small and mid-sized businesses in the retail and medical sectors with the tools to offer financing options to their customers for significant purchases. By enabling instant credit approvals, CreditGenie's solution allows customers to split their purchases into manageable monthly payments. This approach not only assists businesses in acquiring new customers but also helps to increase their average transaction value. CreditGenie's services are offered at no cost to businesses and do not require integration, ensuring a seamless experience for its partners. As of May 2019, CreditGenie operates as a subsidiary of Purpose Financial LP.
Legalswipe
Seed Round in 2016
Legalswipe is a developer of a mobile application designed to educate individuals about their legal rights, particularly in interactions with law enforcement. The application provides users with quick access to accurate and easily understandable information regarding their rights, empowering them to navigate legal situations with confidence. By utilizing technology as a medium for legal education, Legalswipe aims to enhance public awareness and understanding of legal rights, ensuring that users are well-informed when faced with potential legal challenges. The company continues to expand its offerings by exploring additional areas of law, further contributing to its mission of providing accessible legal knowledge.
Madlipz
Pre Seed Round in 2016
Madlipz is a technology company that builds a mobile and web platform enabling users to create and share voiceover and subtitle parodies. The service offers a library of video clips, tools for dubbing and adding subtitles, and analytics that track user engagement. Content can be shared directly to social media, and the platform emphasizes quick creation and community interaction.
Smooth Commerce
Seed Round in 2016
Founded in Toronto, Canada in 2013, Smooth Commerce develops a mobile application that enables merchants to accept mobile payments and engage customers through offers, loyalty rewards, and order-ahead functionality. The platform integrates with merchants' existing systems to provide a seamless customer experience.
Windular Research and Technologies
Seed Round in 2016
Windular Research and Technologies Inc. specializes in renewable energy solutions, specifically designed for the telecom tower industry. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Chelmsford, Canada, with an additional office in Jaipur, India, the company provides innovative wind and solar tracking systems that significantly reduce reliance on traditional diesel power. Its offerings include a 10 kilowatt wind turbine and a 2.25 kilowatt solar tracker, both equipped with advanced smart tracking technology that optimizes energy production by adapting to varying environmental conditions. These systems are designed to be installed on existing tower structures, minimizing the need for additional infrastructure and associated costs. By harnessing renewable energy, Windular enhances operational efficiency for mobile network operators while contributing to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. The company's unique rail and carriage system allows its devices to effectively capture wind and solar resources, offering a more sustainable and cost-effective alternative to conventional power sources in the telecommunications sector.
ClientDesk
Seed Round in 2016
ClientDesk Inc. is a Toronto-based company that offers a digital platform designed specifically for the insurance industry. Its innovative solutions enable policyholders to manage their insurance policies via mobile applications, allowing for tasks such as accessing electronic documents, submitting change requests, and filing claims directly through the app. The platform also facilitates direct communication between insurers and clients through an on-demand live chat feature, enabling insurers to send personalized updates and promotions. By integrating with broker and policy management systems, ClientDesk enhances the client experience and streamlines internal operations for independent brokerage firms, ultimately transforming the way insurance brokers and insurers interact with their policyholders.
RightBlue Labs
Seed Round in 2016
RightBlue Labs provides software to facilitate valuable information collection, aggregation, communication, and distribution between oversight organizations and service providers + clients.
GoBolt, formerly known as Second Closet Incorporated, provides valet self-storage services that enable customers to store their belongings conveniently and securely. Founded in 2017 and based in Toronto, Canada, the company offers a comprehensive solution where customers can schedule pickups and returns of their items. GoBolt delivers boxes for customers to use for storage, then collects these items to be stored in a climate-controlled warehouse. The service is designed to be user-friendly, allowing clients to pay only for the space they utilize, making it an affordable option for those in need of storage solutions.
Influicity
Seed Round in 2015
Influicity operates an influencer marketing platform for marketers, agencies and publishers, providing data and insights on influencers and enabling users to search, book, measure, and collaborate with influencers across YouTube, Twitter, Instagram and other social networks. The platform connects advertisers with content creators and distributors for product placements and campaigns, while supporting collaboration among marketers, media buyers, advertising sales teams, production companies, publishers, talent representatives and studios. Influicity aims to transform influencer campaigns into measurable media operations through its combination of marketing technology, data analytics and artificial intelligence. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Toronto, with an office in Los Angeles.