Trellis Capital

Trellis Capital Corporation is a venture capital firm based in Toronto, Canada, specializing in providing growth capital to proprietary technology companies in sectors such as Industrial, Manufacturing, Alternative Energy, and IT Infrastructure. They focus on companies with unique materials and technologies that drive their competitive edge in the market. Trellis typically invests between $0.5-$2 million in customized equity capital, with the ability to provide larger amounts if needed. They work closely with their portfolio companies to enhance value and may offer expertise, networking opportunities, and assistance in expanding into new markets like India. Founded in 2000, Trellis Capital aims to be a strategic partner in the growth and success of Canadian companies, often seeking board seats with majority or minority ownership in their investments.

Abhishek Krishnamoorthy

Investment Director

Sunil Selby

Founder & Managing Partner

Dominic Talalla

Managing Partner

15 past transactions

Flybits

Series B in 2017
Flybits is the leading customer experience platform for the financial services sector, delivering personalization at scale. With the most advanced capabilities in the market, its enterprise-level solution brings relevant content, products, offers, and information to a bank’s digital channels based on what each individual customer needs in the moments that matter. With Flybits, banks are able to design, launch, and measure data-driven consumer experiences that deliver the right information to the right customer at the right time, while preserving their privacy. www.flybits.com

Locationary

Venture Round in 2011
Locationary created Saturn, the management and exchange platform for local business places data. Saturn helps companies improve their local business profiles by making it easy to convert and integrate different data sources into their custom format. Saturn also offers a new type of API that everyone can use to exchange this info. Legacy APIs distribute data in the provider's format which makes it difficult to integrate with the subscriber's internal databases which are usually in a different format. With Saturn, you can push information in whatever format you're using, and your subscribers can receive real-time updates in whatever custom format they need.

Sidense

Series A in 2008
Leading developer of silicon-proven embedded NVM (non-volatile memory) intellectual property (IP). Sidense's patented one-time programmable OTP memory and logic NVM enables a wide range of electronic products.

Sidense

Series C in 2013
Leading developer of silicon-proven embedded NVM (non-volatile memory) intellectual property (IP). Sidense's patented one-time programmable OTP memory and logic NVM enables a wide range of electronic products.

TrendMD

Pre Seed Round in 2013
TrendMD provides article recommendations for doctors. They partner with scientific publishers such Elsevier and Oxford University Press and have them add a line of their JavaScript code to their journal websites so that they can show 10 similar article links at the bottom of each page. Their mission is to accelerate the rate at which humanity's knowledge advances, by matching readers with the right articles. They serve 500 million recommendations to more than 60 million readers per month and are nearing profitability after recently graduating from Y Combinator -- the startup accelerator that incubated Reddit, Dropbox, and Airbnb.

FunnelCake

Seed Round in 2015
FunnelCake helps B2B marketing teams understand where they have the most impact on their buyer journey. FunnelCake helps accelerate revenue at scale by improving performance for lead and pipeline management.

BioAstra

Private Equity Round in 2010
An innocuous elastic band that twitches like a muscle when electrically activated. A coating that absorbs heat in winter but turns into a heat mirror in summer. A shape-memory foam that can coil up to capture and remove pollutants. A smart patch that can deliver painkillers right where it hurts – through the skin.

Sidense

Debt Financing in 2012
Leading developer of silicon-proven embedded NVM (non-volatile memory) intellectual property (IP). Sidense's patented one-time programmable OTP memory and logic NVM enables a wide range of electronic products.

Datec Coating Corporation

Funding Round in 2017
Datec Coating Corporation produces a line of ceramic technology based coatings. The company offers IntegrAL technology for patented dielectric, resistive and conductive thick-film paste screen-printed on aluminum to create an advanced thermal component. It provides IntegrAL LV for low voltage DC aluminum-base heaters and Mica-TF to act as a conductive heater and mounted as radiant heater. The company produces standard off-the-shelf engineered polymer and ceramic coatings. It serves polymer processing, electronics, automotive, and aerospace industries. Datec Coating Corporation was founded in 1995 and is based in Mississauga, Canada.

RANK Software

Seed Round in 2016
RANK is an advanced security analytics and threat hunting platform. It is a global venture in security analytics that brings together the best of Big Data Analytics to the Cybersecurity arena. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.

ThinkData Works Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
ThinkData sets the gold standard for data. Their platform, Namara, is a standard gateway for organizations to connect to high-value public data. Important data was being released by every level of government, but in non-standard formats that were hard to access and virtually unusable. A Toronto-based company established in 2014, ThinkData Works, Inc. was founded as a central point of access for this data. Since its founding, ThinkData’s offering has expanded to include the fastest, most intelligent, and most scalable tools, as well as the largest repository of open, public, and partner data. ThinkData offers solutions for every stage of the data lifecycle. Using an ETL tool trained on 250,000 datasets, data can stream in from anywhere, bringing sources on as quickly as they’re discovered. Automated QA and detailed monitoring significantly increase confidence in the data, allowing users to get insight into the health, size, and shape of data across any update. To blend and enrich data, a graphical transformation engine and a robust, scalable entity resolution tool create ideal schemas and make it possible to work with data coming from multiple sources. Finally, ThinkData offers integrations with the most common libraries and IDEs, as well as an API with SQL-like language for querying, so that users can plug live data into any solution. ThinkData means more data with less overhead – one platform to access, share, enhance, and integrate data from anywhere.

Flybits

Series A in 2014
Flybits is the leading customer experience platform for the financial services sector, delivering personalization at scale. With the most advanced capabilities in the market, its enterprise-level solution brings relevant content, products, offers, and information to a bank’s digital channels based on what each individual customer needs in the moments that matter. With Flybits, banks are able to design, launch, and measure data-driven consumer experiences that deliver the right information to the right customer at the right time, while preserving their privacy. www.flybits.com

Sidense

Series B in 2010
Leading developer of silicon-proven embedded NVM (non-volatile memory) intellectual property (IP). Sidense's patented one-time programmable OTP memory and logic NVM enables a wide range of electronic products.

iS5 Communications

Venture Round in 2018
iS5 Communications is a global provider of integrated services and solutions, and manufacturer of intelligent Industrial Ethernet products. Their products are designed to meet the stringent demand requirements of utility sub-stations, roadside transportation, rail, and industrial applications. iS5Com’s services and products are key enablers of advanced technology implementation such as the Smart Grid, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Intelligent Oil Field, and Internet of Things. All products have the ability to transmit data efficiently without the loss of any packets under harsh environments and EMI conditions.

Sidense

Series C in 2011
Leading developer of silicon-proven embedded NVM (non-volatile memory) intellectual property (IP). Sidense's patented one-time programmable OTP memory and logic NVM enables a wide range of electronic products.