Laurence Capital

Laurence Capital is a private equity firm based in Waterloo, Canada, founded in 2004 by Peter Schwartz. The firm specializes in providing capital and advisory services to growth stage companies across various sectors, including technology, financial services, and real estate. Laurence Capital assists clients with business development, mergers and acquisitions, financing, and strategic recruiting for boards and executives. In June 2015, Laurence Capital was acquired by Achievers, further enhancing its capabilities in supporting the growth and innovation of its portfolio companies.

Mark Lee

Co-Founder

28 past transactions

Charcoal Group

Venture Round in 2013
Operator of restaurants located in Canada. The company's group of restaurants includes steakhouses, grills, bars, catering and bakeries along with a fine dining experience that offers a rewards program, gift cards, party packages and chauffeur service.

WealthPoint

Private Equity Round in 2013
Wealthpoint, Inc. provides plan management consulting, plan participant education, and retirement plan solutions to plan sponsors and participants in the United States. It offers plan management consulting services, such as fiduciary review services in various areas, including plan fees and expenses, revenue sharing among plan vendors, the selection and monitoring of plan vendors and investment options, employee participation, participant education and communication, IRS compliance testing, plan document issues, and government reporting; and plan management online tool to fulfill duties under ERISA. The company also provides education through group seminars, meetings with financial advisors, and personal plan evaluations; fiduciary consulting; and retirement plan solutions. Its consultation services enable plan sponsors to manage fiduciary responsibility and personal risk. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Phoenix, Arizona.

CWB Maxium Financial

Venture Round in 2012
CWB Maxium Financial Inc. provides structured financing services. It offers services in the areas of healthcare, golf equipment, office, condo, transportation, energy and renewable, and program financing aspects.

Fiix

Seed Round in 2011
Fiix was started in Toronto by a few ‘fiixers’ that wanted to bring simplicity to the unnecessarily complicated world of maintenance management software. And they wanted to do it with a product that was easy to use and affordable for everyone. Today they’ve grown, but they never forget that they were once the little guys and stay true to their founders’ vision of providing easy-to-use, affordable maintenance management software to the world. They’re the long awaited market disrupters, the true cloud provider, the lightning in a bottle.

BigRoad

Seed Round in 2011
BigRoad Inc. is a Canadian company that develops mobile applications tailored for the trucking industry, focusing on both fleet operators and drivers. The company offers a comprehensive suite of tools, including browser applications for fleet managers that enable real-time messaging, automated hours of service (HOS) tracking, document capture, and GPS location monitoring. For drivers, BigRoad provides a smartphone application featuring in-app messaging, electronic logging, and real-time navigation, along with the ability to send and receive documents and photos. The platform also incorporates deep analytics, allowing fleet managers to gain insights into their operations and enhance productivity. By addressing the challenges faced by trucking fleets, BigRoad aims to streamline processes and reduce administrative burdens for fleet owners while improving the driving experience. As of 2017, BigRoad operates as a subsidiary of Complete Innovations Inc.

Achievers

Venture Round in 2011
Achievers Corp. provides cloud-based employee recognition and rewards solutions aimed at enhancing employee engagement and retention. Its platform offers tools for analyzing reports and trends that assist organizations in developing effective workforce strategies. The services include user adoption, recognition, leader performance, and alignment with company values. Achievers caters to a diverse range of sectors, including manufacturing, healthcare, retail, and technology, serving clients both in the United States and internationally. The company, originally founded as I Love Rewards, Inc. in 1995 and rebranded in 2011, is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Achievers has developed a user-friendly Employee Success Platform that is utilized in over 110 countries, with notable clients such as Deloitte, CVS Pharmacy, ConAgra Foods, and Microsoft.

Shoplogix

Venture Round in 2011
Shoplogix Inc. is a company that specializes in real-time performance management solutions for the manufacturing sector. Founded in 2002 and based in Mississauga, Canada, it offers a range of integrated hardware and software platforms designed to enhance productivity. Its key products include Plantnode Perform, which captures and analyzes machine downtime to identify productivity opportunities, and Plantnode OutPerform, which facilitates mistake-proof manufacturing operations. Additionally, Plantnode Enterprise collects and standardizes real-time data across various production lines and locations, allowing for effective comparisons of efficiency metrics. By providing real-time visibility into machine and production performance, Shoplogix enables manufacturers to identify obstacles, reduce operating costs, and enhance profitability. The company has established strategic partnerships with Leading Edge Solutions and GTS Brasil to further its offerings.

Aware

Post in 2011
Aware is a leading provider of biometrics software products and development services to government departments, system integrators, and solution suppliers globally. Our products include SDKs, software components, workstation applications, and a modular, centralized, service-oriented platform. They fulfill a broad range of functions critical to biometric authentication and search using fingerprints, face, and iris, including sample autocapture, image quality assurance, abstraction of capture hardware peripherals, centralized data processing and workflow, subsystem connectivity, and biometric matching algorithms. The products are used to enable identity-centric security solutions with biometrics for applications including law enforcement, border management, credentialing and access control, and defense and intelligence. Aware is a publicly held company (NASDAQ: AWRE) based in Bedford, Massachusetts.

StereoLogic

Seed Round in 2010
Designer and developer of software robots. The company's software robots helps in visualizing the business processes, measures process time and provides the information about process errors and delays, enabling enterprise operational managers to solve critical and complex challenges related to customer service acceleration, productivity improvement, post-transformation stabilization and quality management in a fraction of time and cost.

XMG Studio

Seed Round in 2010
XMG Studio Inc. is a mobile app developer that specializes in creating engaging gaming applications. Founded in 2000, the company is known for its app, Powder Monkeys, and focuses on developing games with unique user interfaces that enhance player interaction through user-generated and user-customized content. In addition to its gaming ventures, XMG Studio also hosts hackathons under the brand name Hackworks, fostering innovation and collaboration within the gaming community.

Blue Ant Media

Venture Round in 2010
GlassBOX Television Inc. is being built to own and operate cross-platform digital broadcast and VOD channels. There is a twist. GlassBOX is run by a couple of veteran Internet guys who are focused on making use of new technologies to engage the audiences and to deliver the channels and content across the globe in innovative ways. GlassBOX studio is near Toronto, Canada, where they produce their own content with emerging artists… the up and coming stars (both on and off the screen) of comedy, music and short form entertainment. The first channel, BITE Television, is three years old and has played a key role in defining a new generation of multi-platform and interactive television services. The Emmy award-winning format for BITE TV is one they are building upon, investing in and looking to duplicate in their forthcoming multi-platform channels. GlassBOX is committed to supporting new talent, developing great content and making the best use of new technologies to help drive audiences for their creator, carrier and advertiser partners.

Seekda

Seed Round in 2009
Kognitiv is redefining how consumer loyalty is created and nourished globally. We help our clients sell more, and recognize a higher yield, by crafting smarter loyalty and reward programs using machine learning and data science. We deliver quantifiable and sustainable loyalty gains to the world’s most reputable companies. Our central technology, the Loyalty Capital Network™, brings asset owners and member brands together in a new peer to peer network – unearthing lost value to intelligently match consumer needs and future intentions with a vast collection of capital-intense assets like flights and hotel rooms. Our skills are focused on generating peer to peer marketplaces that serve the best interests of all parties and our efforts continuously amplify the beneficial effects of this new form of value creation. We are the catalyst that will finally make business truly Open, Transparent and Collaborative. Kognitiv is headquartered in Waterloo, Canada, with over 220 team members in Canada (Waterloo, Mississauga, and Toronto), Argentina (La Plata), Austria (Vienna), Hong Kong, India (Bengaluru and Pune), UK (London, Manchester, and Bournemouth) and United States (Charlottesville).

Quickplay

Series D in 2009
QuickPlay Media Inc. specializes in providing cloud-based managed service solutions for the distribution of premium video to IP-connected devices. The company offers an over-the-top (OTT) video platform that enables clients to deliver live and on-demand content while incorporating monetization features such as dynamic advertisement insertion and subscription-based models. In addition, QuickPlay supports pay TV services through a cloud architecture that facilitates the transition of legacy systems to multiscreen solutions, including TV Everywhere capabilities and managed broadcast operations. Its technology is utilized by leading communications and media companies worldwide, ensuring a scalable and secure delivery of engaging entertainment experiences. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, QuickPlay also has facilities in San Diego, Singapore, Chennai, and Frankfurt, and operates as a subsidiary of AT&T Inc.

ParkVu

Seed Round in 2009
ParkVu is the developer of the Music WithMe. Music WithMe for Android enables users to wirelessly sync music from their iTunes library to their Android phone, quickly and easily share music with their friends using social networks like Twitter and Facebook and get free music downloaded directly to their phone.

Achievers

Series B in 2009
Achievers Corp. provides cloud-based employee recognition and rewards solutions aimed at enhancing employee engagement and retention. Its platform offers tools for analyzing reports and trends that assist organizations in developing effective workforce strategies. The services include user adoption, recognition, leader performance, and alignment with company values. Achievers caters to a diverse range of sectors, including manufacturing, healthcare, retail, and technology, serving clients both in the United States and internationally. The company, originally founded as I Love Rewards, Inc. in 1995 and rebranded in 2011, is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Achievers has developed a user-friendly Employee Success Platform that is utilized in over 110 countries, with notable clients such as Deloitte, CVS Pharmacy, ConAgra Foods, and Microsoft.

Shoplogix

Venture Round in 2009
Shoplogix Inc. is a company that specializes in real-time performance management solutions for the manufacturing sector. Founded in 2002 and based in Mississauga, Canada, it offers a range of integrated hardware and software platforms designed to enhance productivity. Its key products include Plantnode Perform, which captures and analyzes machine downtime to identify productivity opportunities, and Plantnode OutPerform, which facilitates mistake-proof manufacturing operations. Additionally, Plantnode Enterprise collects and standardizes real-time data across various production lines and locations, allowing for effective comparisons of efficiency metrics. By providing real-time visibility into machine and production performance, Shoplogix enables manufacturers to identify obstacles, reduce operating costs, and enhance profitability. The company has established strategic partnerships with Leading Edge Solutions and GTS Brasil to further its offerings.

Mashup Arts

Seed Round in 2008
Mashup Arts Inc. operates a platform designed for social networkers, enabling users to create, customize, and share digital e-cards for various occasions, including birthdays, holidays, and anniversaries. The platform allows users to remix personal content with free internet resources, facilitating the integration of photos, videos, and music into unique e-cards. It is designed for users of all ages and includes features that encourage collaboration, allowing friends and family to contribute to card creations. The platform is integrated with popular social media sites, such as Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube, enhancing the user experience by providing access to entertaining ideas and community-generated content. Based in Toronto, Canada, Mashup Arts Inc. caters to individuals and businesses seeking interactive and personalized communication tools.

Achievers

Series A in 2007
Achievers Corp. provides cloud-based employee recognition and rewards solutions aimed at enhancing employee engagement and retention. Its platform offers tools for analyzing reports and trends that assist organizations in developing effective workforce strategies. The services include user adoption, recognition, leader performance, and alignment with company values. Achievers caters to a diverse range of sectors, including manufacturing, healthcare, retail, and technology, serving clients both in the United States and internationally. The company, originally founded as I Love Rewards, Inc. in 1995 and rebranded in 2011, is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Achievers has developed a user-friendly Employee Success Platform that is utilized in over 110 countries, with notable clients such as Deloitte, CVS Pharmacy, ConAgra Foods, and Microsoft.

CellWand

Venture Round in 2006
CellWand is a developer of mobile applications focused on improving the daily commuting experience. The company offers a suite of apps, including #TAXI and The Ride, that connect users with various transportation options such as taxis, public transit, and car-sharing services. These applications allow users to plan their journeys, request rides, and compare different travel options based on time and cost, making it easier for individuals to navigate their transportation needs efficiently.

Relay Ventures

Venture Round in 2005
Relay Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Toronto, Canada, with an additional office in Calgary. Established in 2010, it specializes in early-stage investments, focusing primarily on the mobile computing sector. The firm targets a diverse array of applications and services, including mobile commerce, enterprise applications, communications, social networking, and location-based services. It also invests in mobile-related software, services, and the broader mobile ecosystem. Relay Ventures aims to support startups that leverage technology to enhance consumer experiences and business operations. The firm prioritizes investments in North America, particularly in the United States and Canada, and has shown interest in sectors such as urban tech, proptech, fintech, and sports tech.

JumpTV

Venture Round in 2005
JumpTV is a global television aggregator that legally streams content online, offering over 300 channels from more than 75 countries. Initially founded by attorney Farrell Miller to distribute U.S. TV via Canadian loopholes, the company has since evolved to provide a diverse range of programming, including news, sports, and movies, accessible through personal computers, laptops, internet-enabled TVs, and mobile devices. JumpTV's services are available through various content distributors, including IPTV vendors, set-top box providers, and mobile network operators. While most programming requires a monthly subscription, there is also a selection of free content, along with options for video on demand and pay-per-view. The pricing for content distributed to partners is determined by each partner, reflecting the platform's flexibility and reach in the online media streaming market.

N-able Technologies

Venture Round in 2005
N-able Technologies, Inc. supplies remote monitoring and management technology and business support services for managed service providers (MSPs) and IT companies. It offers N-central, a remote monitoring and management platform deployed by MSPs servicing the small- and medium-sized businesses market; Remote Support Manager, an included component that is integrated with N-central; Remote Environment Manager, a desktop management tool that enables MSPs to create, manage, and enforce standardized environments for various PCs at a customer site; N-central OnDemand, a remote network, desktop, and security monitoring and management service; and N-compass, an MSP performance reporting solution. The company has operations in North America, the United Kingdom, the Asia-Pacific, and Australia. N-able Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

Globalive

Venture Round in 2005
Globalive Capital Inc. is a venture capital and private equity firm based in Toronto, Canada, with additional offices in New York and San Francisco. Founded in 1998, the firm specializes in investments in startups, primarily focusing on seed, pre-seed, and Series A rounds. Globalive Capital invests between $1 million and $5 million, with a preference for sectors such as technology, telecommunications, real estate, HR technology, fintech, health technology, biotech, and drone technology. The firm aims to support businesses in the United States, Canada, and globally, and also provides venture studio services to foster innovation and growth in its portfolio companies.

Ziplocal

Venture Round in 2005
ZipLocal Inc. does not have significant operations. The company intends to explore new business opportunities. Previously, the company was engaged in online listing advertising. ZipLocal Inc. is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. As of July 7, 2017, ZipLocal Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Intercap Inc.

Williams Fresh Cafe

Venture Round in 2004
Williams Fresh Cafe Inc. owns and operates coffee shops in Canada. Its menu includes beverages, soups and salads, sandwiches, cafe entrees and desserts, chilled drinks, and bakery items; and retail coffee and gift cards. The company provides catering for breakfast, catering sandwiches, snackables, and coffee service and beverages. In addition, it offers specialty coffees, gourmet teas, bottled waters, juices, and lifestyles beverages, as well as various meals. Williams Fresh Cafe Inc. was formerly known as Williams Coffee Pub, Inc. and changed its name to Williams Fresh Cafe Inc. in 2009. The company was founded in 1993 and is based in Brantford, Canada. Williams Fresh Cafe Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Druxy's Inc. As of January 22, 2016, Williams Fresh Cafe Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Druxy's Inc.
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