Killick Capital

Killick Capital Inc. is a private equity firm founded in 2004 and based in St. John's, Canada. Specializing in acquisitions, restructurings, and undervalued investments, the firm primarily focuses on private businesses in the Atlantic Canadian region and has a particular interest in global aerospace companies. Killick Capital aims to provide capital for expansion and acquisition financing while often taking board seats in its portfolio companies to maximize their potential for success. The firm also manages the Killick Newfoundland & Labrador Fund, which specifically invests in opportunities within Newfoundland and Labrador.

Joe McKenna

Partner and Vice President, Investments

Tom Williams

Vice President, Investments and Partner

37 past transactions

Frenter

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Frenter is an all-in-one platform providing a comprehensive technical infrastructure for the rental industry. With Frenter, rental businesses have access to a suite of tools that allow them to make data-driven decisions, reduce risk, and have real-time insights into their business. Companies can use Frenter to monitor their equipment in real time in even the most remote areas, using cellular and satellite GPS, and receive real-time data on equipment usage and health.

Frenter

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Frenter is an all-in-one platform providing a comprehensive technical infrastructure for the rental industry. With Frenter, rental businesses have access to a suite of tools that allow them to make data-driven decisions, reduce risk, and have real-time insights into their business. Companies can use Frenter to monitor their equipment in real time in even the most remote areas, using cellular and satellite GPS, and receive real-time data on equipment usage and health.

Mysa

Series B in 2021
Mysa is the first ever high-voltage thermostat that is truly smart. It is fully featured for the conscientious consumer: smart learning features which amount to approximately 15% savings on energy bills, remote access to control their home’s heating through their smartphone from anywhere in the world, and integration with popular smart home platforms (Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and Apple Homekit)

Swiftsure Innovations

Seed Round in 2021
Swiftsure Innovations provides registered nurses with the tools required to improve patient outcomes. It develops a medical device that enhances oral care for patients on life support with the aim of decreasing the incidence of ventilator-acquired pneumonia, length of mechanical ventilation, and length of hospital stay. Creative Destruction Labs supports the company.

Sparrow Biologic

Seed Round in 2021
Sparrow is leading a new generation of computational health companies. We use our proprietary technology to process biological sounds and build powerful diagnostic models of disease. Our goal is to help healthcare providers offer early detection and monitoring of progressive conditions like cardiovascular disease to broader populations, especially those without equal access to medical care. Our approach targets the costs, speed and barriers to access currently causing millions of people to go under-serviced or undiagnosed. This will lead to fewer hospital readmissions, fewer unnecessary tests and better, more proactive care paths for people.

Coloursmith Labs Inc.

Seed Round in 2021
Colorsmith Labs is an optical filtering technology company that offers advanced materials, light and optics, and vision science. They are making possible tint-free products, harmful light protection, and chromatic applications. Their mission is to combine science, creativity, and industry to push the boundaries of human vision and harness expanded human capabilities to improve people's lives.

BreatheSuite

Seed Round in 2021
BreatheSuite allow patients to use their inhaler properly without the need for separate training devices. The BreatheSuite inhaler add-on connects directly to your smartphone via Bluetooth to ensure you never miss a dose, your technique is correct and your symptoms are well controlled.

Mysa

Venture Round in 2020
Mysa is the first ever high-voltage thermostat that is truly smart. It is fully featured for the conscientious consumer: smart learning features which amount to approximately 15% savings on energy bills, remote access to control their home’s heating through their smartphone from anywhere in the world, and integration with popular smart home platforms (Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and Apple Homekit)

SucSeed

Venture Round in 2020
SucSeed is a socially-driven hydroponics company. They sell their grow tanks and accessories to households across Canada. Their at-home hydroponic systems are built by Choices For Youth, an organization that supports and employs youth facing barriers to work and housing.

Spellbook

Equity Crowdfunding in 2019
Spellbook is a legal software startup that develops a generative artificial intelligence contract drafting tool for lawyers. The technology, which is powered by huge language models such as OpenAI's GPT-4, is optimized for contracting performance utilizing legal datasets.

Rallynow

Venture Round in 2019
Rally is a web app where users can manage their contracts and company’s legal documents in a frictionless manner and entirely on the cloud. Rally gives its users an extensive library of contract and corporate templates and provides an innovative customization process that makes generating documents easier than ever. On Rally you create, customize, and collaborate with your team on documents, as well as negotiate your deals with counterparties before e-signing them and storing them in an active repository that tracks important actions and obligations from both parties.

CoLab Software

Seed Round in 2019
CoLab is a cloud-based design review and issue-tracking application developed to help manufacturing teams streamline their productivity. The company's platform provides mechanical and product design teams with real-time collaboration tools that drastically minimize project time lost due to poor communication during the design lifecycle, allowing clients to focus on shortening development cycles and decreasing manufacturing defects.

Coloursmith Labs Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
Colorsmith Labs is an optical filtering technology company that offers advanced materials, light and optics, and vision science. They are making possible tint-free products, harmful light protection, and chromatic applications. Their mission is to combine science, creativity, and industry to push the boundaries of human vision and harness expanded human capabilities to improve people's lives.

Harbr

Venture Round in 2019
Harbr is an embedded credit onboarding for lenders and credit bureaus that takes the chronic pain out of chasing down hard to gather and hard to transform unstructured contextual business credit and payment data.

Mysa

Seed Round in 2018
Mysa is the first ever high-voltage thermostat that is truly smart. It is fully featured for the conscientious consumer: smart learning features which amount to approximately 15% savings on energy bills, remote access to control their home’s heating through their smartphone from anywhere in the world, and integration with popular smart home platforms (Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and Apple Homekit)

CoLab Software

Pre Seed Round in 2018
CoLab is a cloud-based design review and issue-tracking application developed to help manufacturing teams streamline their productivity. The company's platform provides mechanical and product design teams with real-time collaboration tools that drastically minimize project time lost due to poor communication during the design lifecycle, allowing clients to focus on shortening development cycles and decreasing manufacturing defects.

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.

HeyOrca

Venture Round in 2017
HeyOrca simplifies the asset production workflow for creative teams. Making it efficient for an assets to go from ideation to distribution by involving the right people at the right time. We currently serve more than 300 companies across the world.

Mysa

Seed Round in 2017
Mysa is the first ever high-voltage thermostat that is truly smart. It is fully featured for the conscientious consumer: smart learning features which amount to approximately 15% savings on energy bills, remote access to control their home’s heating through their smartphone from anywhere in the world, and integration with popular smart home platforms (Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and Apple Homekit)

Seaformatics Systems

Venture Round in 2017
Seaformatics Systems designs and manufactures power harvesting and wireless communication products for the ocean monitoring industry.

HeyOrca

Seed Round in 2016
HeyOrca simplifies the asset production workflow for creative teams. Making it efficient for an assets to go from ideation to distribution by involving the right people at the right time. We currently serve more than 300 companies across the world.

Sequence Bio

Seed Round in 2016
90% of drug candidates fail, delaying help for those in need. We’re on a mission to change that. Better drug target discovery powered by the Newfoundland founder effect.

Clockwork Fox

Private Equity Round in 2016
Clockwork Fox is a digital gaming and educational technology studio, Clockwork Fox is committed to developing learning systems based on interactive technologies that result in significantly improved learning outcomes.In other words—they make games. If those games can do something cool like use a groundbreaking new technology or change the way kids learn math, even better.

Sequence Bio

Pre Seed Round in 2015
90% of drug candidates fail, delaying help for those in need. We’re on a mission to change that. Better drug target discovery powered by the Newfoundland founder effect.

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.

PathFactory

Venture Round in 2015
PathFactory delivers the on-demand experience for B2B by enabling buyers with the most relevant information at every step of their unique journey and allowing them to binge-consume content, removing friction and making the buying process more efficient. By tracking exactly what each buyer is consuming along the path to purchase, PathFactory delivers hyper-relevant, real-time content recommendations and dramatically expedites the buying process.

Max

Venture Round in 2013
Max offers active and healthy programs such as athletics and arts for families.

CT Aerospace

Venture Round in 2011
CT Aerospace is a supplier of engines, engine parts and related services to its customers over the years.

Prime Turbines

Venture Round in 2011
Prime Turbines is a privately held company provides aerospace repair and maintenance services.
Kansas Aviation of Independence LLC engages in the overhaul and repair of oil, air, and fuel related engine accessories.

Killick Aerospace

Debt Financing in 2011
Killick Aerospace is a leading provider of Commerical engine, airframe, and rotable parts & components to major Airlines.

Carta Worldwide

Venture Round in 2011
Carta is a digital transaction platform—the engine behind fintech innovation. Empowering new industry disruptors that allows established players to push existing technology into the future. Carta is the backbone of leading digital payment products around the globe. Carta is an award winning leader in the development of mobile payment technologies such as Host Card Emulation (HCE), Cloud-Based Secure Element and advanced Tokenization. As a certified Third Party Processor with MasterCard / Visa, and through Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) compliance, we offer End to End transaction solutions that provide the highest level of security and reliability with faster time to market, greater control and lower total cost of ownership than our competitors.

Verafin

Venture Round in 2009
Verafin provides a cloud-based cross-institutional software platform for Fraud Detection and Management, BSA/AML Compliance and Management, High-Risk Customer Management, and Secure 314(b) Information Sharing. More than 2600 banks and credit unions use Verafin to effectively fight financial crime and comply with regulations. Leveraging its big data intelligence, visual storytelling, and collaborative investigation capabilities, Verafin significantly reduces false positive alerts, delivers context-rich insights, and streamlines the daunting BSA/AML compliance processes that financial institutions face today. Verafin is the exclusive provider for Texas Bankers Association, Western Bankers Association, Florida Bankers Association, Illinois Bankers Association, Massachusetts Bankers Association, and CUNA Strategic Services, with industry endorsements in 47 U.S. states.

Verafin

Private Equity Round in 2007
Verafin provides a cloud-based cross-institutional software platform for Fraud Detection and Management, BSA/AML Compliance and Management, High-Risk Customer Management, and Secure 314(b) Information Sharing. More than 2600 banks and credit unions use Verafin to effectively fight financial crime and comply with regulations. Leveraging its big data intelligence, visual storytelling, and collaborative investigation capabilities, Verafin significantly reduces false positive alerts, delivers context-rich insights, and streamlines the daunting BSA/AML compliance processes that financial institutions face today. Verafin is the exclusive provider for Texas Bankers Association, Western Bankers Association, Florida Bankers Association, Illinois Bankers Association, Massachusetts Bankers Association, and CUNA Strategic Services, with industry endorsements in 47 U.S. states.

Air Parts & Supply Company

Venture Round in 2004
Air Parts & Supply Company, Inc. distributes aircraft ignition and fuel control parts to the aerospace industry.

Turbine Engine Specialists

Venture Round in 2004
Turbine Engine Specialists is a business aviation field service organization. Their services include field services, apu services, engine services, and parts services. They offer commercial and business aircraft engine solutions, aircraft parts and rotables, and engine sales and leasing.
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