inovia capital

Inovia Capital is a venture capital firm based in Montreal, Canada, founded in 2007 by Chris Arsenault. The firm specializes in investing in early-stage and growth-stage companies, targeting sectors such as mobile technology, consumer internet, software as a service, digital media, healthcare, and biotechnology, among others. With over $1 billion in assets under management, Inovia Capital seeks to support passionate tech founders with global ambitions by providing not only capital but also coaching and access to talent within key ecosystems in Canada, the United States, and Europe. The firm focuses on applied services and infrastructure platforms aimed at transforming complex legacy industries, including financial services and healthcare.

Shawn Abbott

Co-Founder & Partner

Charlotte Borgognoni

Associate

Magaly Charbonneau

Partner

Steven Chung

Associate

Alysaa Co

Associate

François Gauvin

Partner

Jerry Hendrix

Associate

Kelly Jacques

Associate

Geoffrey P. Judge

Board Partner

Hugues Lalancette

Partner

Kristopher Mariani

Director of Finance and Administration

Sarah Marion

Analyst

Michael McGraw

Associate

Mia Morisset

Associate

Taha Mubashir

Principal

Scott Munro

Venture Partner

Noah Nagle

Investor

Karamdeep Nijjar

Partner

Antoine Nivard

Associate

Gabriele Papievyte

Associate

Camille Pfeiffer

Operations Analyst

Patrick Pichette

Partner

Todd Simpson

Partner

Thomas Terrats

Principal

Pranit Tukrel

Growth Equity Investor

Steven Woods

Partner, CTO

Past deals in Ontario

Haloo

Seed Round in 2022
Navigating the trademark search and registration process can be daunting and onerous for business owners and entrepreneurs. Heirlume is the first self-serve online trademark search and registration platform that integrates sophisticated legal thinking with technology. We make the complex trademark search and registration process fast, accurate, trusted and affordable for entrepreneurs and enterprise/e-com partners. Our search tool instantly runs the country-specific legal tests (i.e., “likelihood of confusion”) and performs lawyer analysis. Intelligent search algorithms provide an at-a-glance opinion of registerability (conflicts, descriptiveness, obscenity), displayed in simple visuals. Distilling the multiple data sets involved with drafting a trademark application requires time-consuming legal analysis. Our machine learning auto-suggest trademark application builder performs the lawyer work and removes room for error. While our first go to market strategy will target SME individual users, we see huge potential in expanding our market reach through key B2B partnerships as an upsell/add-on to a domain purchase (GoDaddy), or store set-up (Shopify or Amazon). Ultimately, we believe we can make trademark registration quick, easy and affordable, similar to the experience of registering a domain.

Pine

Series A in 2022
Pine operates as a digital mortgage company. Pine is a technology-centric company, that believes in supporting tech with people and processes, not the other way around.

Signal 1

Seed Round in 2022
Signal 1’s AI platform helps hospitals tackle these by integrating AI-driven insights directly into existing workflows, delivering improved patient outcomes, enhanced hospital efficiency and reduced stress for front-line workers.

Disco

Series A in 2022
Disco is a platform for creators to build and scale their learning empire easily in one place. Our vision for learning leaves the industrial age behind and looks to a world of lifelong learning, that's live, with peers, led by creators we trust and accessible from anywhere.

RouteThis

Series A in 2022
Intelligent automation for tech support

BenchSci

Series C in 2022
BenchSci's vision is to bring medicine to patients 50% faster by 2025. The company empowers scientists with the world’s most advanced biomedical artificial intelligence to run more successful experiments. Backed by F-Prime, Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI fund), and Inovia Capital, BenchSci's proprietary technology accelerates science at 15 top 20 pharmaceutical companies and over 4,300 leading research centers worldwide. BenchSci is a CIX Top 10 Growth company, certified Great Place to Work®, and top-ranked company on Glassdoor.

Fellow.app

Series A in 2021
Fellow Insights, Inc. is a cloud-based software company based in Ottawa, Canada, founded in 2017. The company specializes in developing tools that assist managers, team leaders, and employees in managing work interactions. Its software facilitates one-on-one meetings, team meetings, peer-to-peer feedback, performance reviews, recognition, and priority settings. Fellow is designed to enhance team dynamics by providing personalized recommendations that support team growth. The platform enables effective check-ins, performance appraisals, and feedback, making it suitable for both small teams and larger organizations. It aims to empower leaders with smart suggestions and tools to improve workplace communication and collaboration.

Rewind

Series B in 2021
Since 2015, Rewind has been on a mission to help small and medium businesses keep growing online. Today, over 30,000 total customers in more than 100 countries use Rewind’s top-reviewed software and support to easily control the software-as-a-service data that's critical to their success. Rewind's solutions empower businesses to protect and recover the data they need for consistent growth.

EnPowered

Seed Round in 2021
EnPowered helps businesses take charge of their energy usage and costs. We provide free audits on energy bills to deliver up to 70% in cost reductions. We also run analytics on our customers’ energy usage to help them save even more, offering energy retrofits to reduce energy consumption. We are working to give Power to the People. We help our customers control their energy usage and costs, and also allow small businesses to group together to get lower electricity rates; group-buying for energy.

Resq

Seed Round in 2021
ResQ is the all-in-one app to request, track and pay for your restaurant's repair and maintenance needs.

Pine

Seed Round in 2021
Pine operates as a digital mortgage company. Pine is a technology-centric company, that believes in supporting tech with people and processes, not the other way around.

Wealthsimple

Private Equity Round in 2021
Wealthsimple Financial Inc. is a Toronto-based company that offers digital investment advisory services across Canada, including provinces and territories such as Ontario, British Columbia, and Alberta. Founded in 2014, the firm provides a range of financial tools designed to help investors grow and manage their wealth. Wealthsimple's primary offerings include an application that allows users to invest in diversified portfolios of exchange-traded funds and a hybrid product known as Wealthsimple Cash, which combines savings and spending features. The company serves over one million Canadians and is supported by a team of financial experts and technology professionals with experience from leading firms. In addition to its Canadian operations, Wealthsimple has offices in New York and London and operates as a subsidiary of Purpose Advisor Solutions Inc.

Plooto

Series A in 2021
Plooto, Inc. is a Toronto-based company that operates a cloud-based payments platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses. Founded in 2015, Plooto's platform simplifies the payment process by allowing users to send and receive payments online efficiently. It enables businesses to make payments to any recipient with an active bank account within 2-3 business days. Additionally, Plooto automates transaction reconciliation with popular accounting software, streamlining financial operations for its users.

Clearco

Series C in 2021
Clearbanc provides growth capital for web-enabled businesses through its 20-minute term sheet. The company offers fast, affordable growth capital to eCommerce and B2B/SaaS companies. Its investments range from $10K - $10M and its portfolio spans small businesses across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom to some of the fastest-growing consumer brands. Launched in 2015, Clearbanc uses proprietary underwriting technology to offer more capital at quicker speeds and more flexible terms than other financing alternatives.

Swyft

Series A in 2021
ShipSwyft Inc. develops same day delivery application that connects merchants to existing courier networks. It serves ecommerce brands with postal zone calculation, multiple fulfillment options, and real-time address verification. The company offers rapid deployment, improve customer experience, and dynamic supply to meet demand serves to retailers and it offers integration with shipping API, quality of service, and ease of execution service to 3PL and distributors. ShipSwyft Inc. was founded in 2020 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Rewind

Series A in 2021
Since 2015, Rewind has been on a mission to help small and medium businesses keep growing online. Today, over 30,000 total customers in more than 100 countries use Rewind’s top-reviewed software and support to easily control the software-as-a-service data that's critical to their success. Rewind's solutions empower businesses to protect and recover the data they need for consistent growth.

DarwinAI

Seed Round in 2020
DarwinAI Corp. specializes in designing and developing a platform that generates deep neural networks for enterprise artificial intelligence applications. The company's flagship product, GenSynth, is a software platform that provides developers and data scientists with tools to accelerate the deep learning development cycle in a transparent manner. GenSynth automatically creates new models that meet specific performance targets while maintaining transparency throughout the development process, allowing users to understand the factors influencing model decisions. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Waterloo, Canada, DarwinAI leverages patented Generative Synthesis technology to enhance the efficiency, portability, scalability, and comprehensibility of artificial intelligence, making advanced AI accessible to a broader audience.

Bettermode

Seed Round in 2020
Tribe is a computer software company that offers a cloud-based platform empowering the new generation of online communities. It integrates with messengers and social media and helps its users to amplify the vibe around their business by allowing them and their customers to create content. The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Ontario, Canada.

ProNavigator

Venture Round in 2020
ProNavigator provides an AI-driven knowledge-sharing platform, used by some of the largest insurance organizations, to save time, provide superior service, and seize revenue opportunities. The platform leverages advancements in artificial intelligence and natural language understanding to instantly and automatically retrieve answers to customers' and employees' questions.

Senso.ai

Seed Round in 2020
Senso.ai Inc. is a fintech company based in Toronto, Canada, founded in 2017. The company offers a cloud-based predictive portfolio management platform specifically designed for the retail banking industry. Its software utilizes artificial intelligence to enhance customer acquisition and retention by identifying key moments for financial advisors to engage with clients about their banking needs. By providing actionable insights, Senso.ai aims to strengthen client relationships for financial institutions, enabling them to better serve their customers.

OTTO Motors

Series C in 2020
OTTO Motors, a subsidiary of Clearpath Robotics Inc., specializes in designing and developing autonomous mobile robots for material handling in manufacturing facilities and warehouses. Founded in 2015 and based in Kitchener, Canada, the company offers two primary products: the OTTO 100, which handles human-scale payloads like boxes and carts, and the OTTO 1500, designed for larger loads such as pallets and racks. These self-driving vehicles utilize infrastructure-free navigation to ensure safe and efficient transportation in dynamic production environments, with applications spanning various industries, including automotive, medical devices, aerospace, and logistics. OTTO Motors combines proprietary hardware, software, and services to enhance operational excellence for its customers.

Top Hat

Series D in 2020
As a student engagement and interactive teaching platform, Top Hat’s software helps college professors activate classrooms. In a world of digital distractions, countless academic studies have reinforced the reality that students better understand the day’s lesson if they’re asked to engage with peers, interact with complex material and participate in class. By requiring students to use their personal devices to answer quizzes, reply to polls, and tackle difficult simulations, Top Hat transforms the passive lecture hall into an engaging learning environment. As an advocate for traditional, on-campus education, Top Hat not only modernizes established teaching methods but also facilitates new approaches including the ‘flipped classroom,’ ‘group learning,’ and other creative solutions. Top Hat is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, hosts 120 full-time employees, and has been operating since its 2009 launch behind $22M in venture funding.

BenchSci

Series B in 2020
BenchSci's vision is to bring medicine to patients 50% faster by 2025. The company empowers scientists with the world’s most advanced biomedical artificial intelligence to run more successful experiments. Backed by F-Prime, Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI fund), and Inovia Capital, BenchSci's proprietary technology accelerates science at 15 top 20 pharmaceutical companies and over 4,300 leading research centers worldwide. BenchSci is a CIX Top 10 Growth company, certified Great Place to Work®, and top-ranked company on Glassdoor.

ODAIA

Seed Round in 2019
ODAIA Intelligence Inc. is a Canadian company that specializes in developing an artificial intelligence-based platform for customer engagement analysis. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Toronto, ODAIA offers a cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) platform that enables enterprise clients to automate the mapping of customer touchpoints and journeys. Utilizing advanced techniques in big data mining, process journey mapping, and machine learning, the platform provides insights into customer behavior, predicts future actions, and identifies potential churn. ODAIA simplifies data ingestion and normalization from various sources, offering an intuitive dashboard for visualizing insights and predictions. The company was established by a team of academics and industry professionals, including members from the University of Toronto and the University of Lausanne, whose research has been widely recognized in the field.

Clearco

Series B in 2019
Clearbanc provides growth capital for web-enabled businesses through its 20-minute term sheet. The company offers fast, affordable growth capital to eCommerce and B2B/SaaS companies. Its investments range from $10K - $10M and its portfolio spans small businesses across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom to some of the fastest-growing consumer brands. Launched in 2015, Clearbanc uses proprietary underwriting technology to offer more capital at quicker speeds and more flexible terms than other financing alternatives.

ProteinQure

Seed Round in 2019
ProteinQure is a Toronto-based startup building a computational platform for design of protein therapeutics. Our mission is to help to create a world where drugs are engineered, not discovered. We work on treatments for cancer, diabetes, asthma, and cardiovascular diseases, among others, and partner with industry leaders in drug discovery to generate novel therapeutics outside of the conventional chemical space.

Fellow.app

Seed Round in 2019
Fellow Insights, Inc. is a cloud-based software company based in Ottawa, Canada, founded in 2017. The company specializes in developing tools that assist managers, team leaders, and employees in managing work interactions. Its software facilitates one-on-one meetings, team meetings, peer-to-peer feedback, performance reviews, recognition, and priority settings. Fellow is designed to enhance team dynamics by providing personalized recommendations that support team growth. The platform enables effective check-ins, performance appraisals, and feedback, making it suitable for both small teams and larger organizations. It aims to empower leaders with smart suggestions and tools to improve workplace communication and collaboration.

CareGuide

Venture Round in 2019
CareGuide Inc. owns and operates online marketplaces that connect families and individual with care providers for everyday care services. It operates a family of online marketplaces for senior care, child care, pet care, and home care services. The company is based in Toronto, Canada.

Finaeo

Seed Round in 2019
Finaeo Inc. is a Toronto-based company that develops applications designed to assist financial advisors by acting as a digital assistant and sales coach. Founded in 2016, Finaeo's platform serves as a digital marketplace that connects independent life insurance brokers with carriers and clients, offering a fully integrated experience. Its applications allow users to share documents, track tasks, answer questions, and schedule meetings, enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of insurance transactions. By providing tools for both iOS and Android users, Finaeo is focused on transforming the life and health insurance industry through innovative technology.

Vital Bio

Funding Round in 2019
Vital Biosciences Inc develops tools that helps to monitor health and manage disease. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Kitchener, Canada.

Clearco

Series A in 2018
Clearbanc provides growth capital for web-enabled businesses through its 20-minute term sheet. The company offers fast, affordable growth capital to eCommerce and B2B/SaaS companies. Its investments range from $10K - $10M and its portfolio spans small businesses across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom to some of the fastest-growing consumer brands. Launched in 2015, Clearbanc uses proprietary underwriting technology to offer more capital at quicker speeds and more flexible terms than other financing alternatives.

DarwinAI

Seed Round in 2018
DarwinAI Corp. specializes in designing and developing a platform that generates deep neural networks for enterprise artificial intelligence applications. The company's flagship product, GenSynth, is a software platform that provides developers and data scientists with tools to accelerate the deep learning development cycle in a transparent manner. GenSynth automatically creates new models that meet specific performance targets while maintaining transparency throughout the development process, allowing users to understand the factors influencing model decisions. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Waterloo, Canada, DarwinAI leverages patented Generative Synthesis technology to enhance the efficiency, portability, scalability, and comprehensibility of artificial intelligence, making advanced AI accessible to a broader audience.

CareGuide

Series A in 2018
CareGuide Inc. owns and operates online marketplaces that connect families and individual with care providers for everyday care services. It operates a family of online marketplaces for senior care, child care, pet care, and home care services. The company is based in Toronto, Canada.

Phenomic AI

Seed Round in 2018
Phenomic AI is a developer of a drug discovery platform designed to discovery and optimize therapeutics directly against phenotypic assays.The company's platform uses artificial intelligence to analyze phenotypes in complex disease models including high-content co-culture and 3D assays, enabling pharmaceutical companies to discover drugs in an easier way.

BenchSci

Series A in 2018
BenchSci's vision is to bring medicine to patients 50% faster by 2025. The company empowers scientists with the world’s most advanced biomedical artificial intelligence to run more successful experiments. Backed by F-Prime, Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI fund), and Inovia Capital, BenchSci's proprietary technology accelerates science at 15 top 20 pharmaceutical companies and over 4,300 leading research centers worldwide. BenchSci is a CIX Top 10 Growth company, certified Great Place to Work®, and top-ranked company on Glassdoor.

RouteThis

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Intelligent automation for tech support

Properly

Seed Round in 2018
Properly Inc. is a residential real estate company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The company offers a streamlined solution for homeowners looking to sell their properties, utilizing technology and local market expertise to simplify the process. Properly provides fair-market offers and allows sellers to close on their own timeline, alleviating common stressors associated with home sales, such as extended showings, repairs, and the risk of buyers backing out. Through its online platform, Properly facilitates the buying and selling of residential properties, aiming to create a more efficient and user-friendly experience for families navigating the real estate market.

Cybeats Technologies

Seed Round in 2018
Cybeats provides an immune system for IoT devices. Taking an "inside-out" approach to cybersecurity, Cybeats’ software is implanted into Enterprise IoT devices to provide continuous protection, allowing devices to detect the most sophisticated threats instantly and gather data to help security professionals neutralize them. Cybeats’ Cloud SaaS Ecosystem analyzes data from the infected device, providing CSOs and IT pros a full diagnosis and treatment plan for the threat, saving them time and money.

Rubikloud

Series B in 2018
Large scale enterprise software is going through a 10-year disruption. AI will be embedded into every major business process and piece of enterprise software. Based in Toronto, Canada, our full stack, cloud-native machine learning platform and two flagship AI applications (Promotion Manager & Customer LifeCycle Manager) automate and improve mass promotional planning and loyalty driven marketing for our multi-billion dollar retailers. We believe that making intelligent decisions can be made easier with AI and today we have multi-billion-dollar clients with retail brands operating in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Chatkit

Seed Round in 2017
Chatkit Inc. provides conversational marketing platform for social marketers, retailers, and shopify merchants. It offers AI chatbot, an online platform that enables brands to manage and automate conversations with their customers on chat channels. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Top Hat

Series C in 2017
As a student engagement and interactive teaching platform, Top Hat’s software helps college professors activate classrooms. In a world of digital distractions, countless academic studies have reinforced the reality that students better understand the day’s lesson if they’re asked to engage with peers, interact with complex material and participate in class. By requiring students to use their personal devices to answer quizzes, reply to polls, and tackle difficult simulations, Top Hat transforms the passive lecture hall into an engaging learning environment. As an advocate for traditional, on-campus education, Top Hat not only modernizes established teaching methods but also facilitates new approaches including the ‘flipped classroom,’ ‘group learning,’ and other creative solutions. Top Hat is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, hosts 120 full-time employees, and has been operating since its 2009 launch behind $22M in venture funding.

OTTO Motors

Series B in 2016
OTTO Motors, a subsidiary of Clearpath Robotics Inc., specializes in designing and developing autonomous mobile robots for material handling in manufacturing facilities and warehouses. Founded in 2015 and based in Kitchener, Canada, the company offers two primary products: the OTTO 100, which handles human-scale payloads like boxes and carts, and the OTTO 1500, designed for larger loads such as pallets and racks. These self-driving vehicles utilize infrastructure-free navigation to ensure safe and efficient transportation in dynamic production environments, with applications spanning various industries, including automotive, medical devices, aerospace, and logistics. OTTO Motors combines proprietary hardware, software, and services to enhance operational excellence for its customers.

North

Series B in 2016
North, formerly known as Thalmic Labs, is a technology company based in Kitchener, Canada, focused on developing innovative eyewear that integrates digital information into daily life. Founded in 2012, North employs over 400 professionals across four offices in North America, including engineers, designers, and futurists. The company's flagship product is a pair of smart glasses that provide heads-up access to digital notifications, allowing users to engage with their digital lives without the need to constantly check their phones. Features such as customizable replies, emojis, and snooze delays enhance the user experience by offering discreet and manageable access to information. North aims to create technologies that seamlessly blend with everyday activities, emphasizing the harmonious relationship between people and technology.

Peraso Technologies

Series C in 2016
Peraso Technologies Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company based in Toronto, Canada, that specializes in the development of multi-gigabit millimeter wave single-chip transceivers. Founded in 2008, the company focuses on creating array antenna solutions and 60 GHz wireless chipsets that comply with the IEEE 802.11ad specification. Its product lineup includes the W120, X710, and X610 chipsets, which cater to the mobile consumer electronics market, serving devices such as smartphones, tablets, and digital cameras. Peraso Technologies also offers custom solutions designed to meet specific customer needs, with applications spanning mobile rapid sync-n-go, desktop interconnect, wireless networking, in-room HD video streaming, cellular backhaul, medical imaging, security imaging, and vehicle-to-vehicle communication.

Vidyard

Series C in 2016
Vidyard is a video platform based in Kitchener, Ontario, that assists businesses in enhancing their communication and driving revenue through the strategic use of online videos. Founded in 2011, Vidyard goes beyond simple video hosting and management by providing tools for video enablement and analytics. Its platform enables organizations to create personalized and interactive video experiences, track viewer engagement, and convert views into actionable outcomes. Prominent companies like Honeywell, McKesson, and LinkedIn leverage Vidyard to enhance their video content strategies and cultivate deeper connections with their audiences, ultimately transforming viewers into customers.

Street Contxt

Series A in 2016
Street Contxt is a communication platform designed for the institutional financial community, facilitating connections between brokers and their clients through high-quality content and insights. Established in 2012 and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, the platform aims to transform the production, consumption, and discovery of market-moving commentary. By creating an intelligent information marketplace tailored for global capital markets, Street Contxt provides actionable insights that are relevant to each user, enhancing the overall effectiveness of financial communication.

Blitzen

Seed Round in 2015
Blitzen operates a business-to-business platform designed to enhance workflows for medium to large-sized enterprises. The company specializes in lead management and voice-of-customer solutions, enabling marketers to convert website visitors into valuable leads and gather essential customer insights. Blitzen has been recognized for its innovative approach, having graduated from the U.S.-based accelerator AngelPad. The company is headquartered in Kitchener, Ontario, with additional operations in New York City.

OTTO Motors

Series A in 2015
OTTO Motors, a subsidiary of Clearpath Robotics Inc., specializes in designing and developing autonomous mobile robots for material handling in manufacturing facilities and warehouses. Founded in 2015 and based in Kitchener, Canada, the company offers two primary products: the OTTO 100, which handles human-scale payloads like boxes and carts, and the OTTO 1500, designed for larger loads such as pallets and racks. These self-driving vehicles utilize infrastructure-free navigation to ensure safe and efficient transportation in dynamic production environments, with applications spanning various industries, including automotive, medical devices, aerospace, and logistics. OTTO Motors combines proprietary hardware, software, and services to enhance operational excellence for its customers.

Pressly

Venture Round in 2015
Pressly is a smart online platform that helps you aggregate the right content for your audience and establish your brand as a thought leader in your industry. Content is exactly like your audience: It’s all over the web, pinging from social networks to blogs via corporate websites and emails. Pressly allows all of this to happen in a single place: your hub.

Beagle

Seed Round in 2015
Beagle Inc. is a Canadian company founded in 2013, headquartered in Kitchener. It offers a cloud-based productivity tool that employs artificial intelligence to analyze contracts, primarily targeting small and medium-sized businesses. The platform enhances purchasing power and provides critical insights to executives while aiding legal teams in compliance matters. By utilizing an advanced AI engine, Beagle helps users comprehend the relevance of contract language and compliance elements specific to their needs. This functionality enables decision-makers to navigate risks effectively, leading to improved efficiency, accuracy, and overall employee engagement.

Vidyard

Series B in 2015
Vidyard is a video platform based in Kitchener, Ontario, that assists businesses in enhancing their communication and driving revenue through the strategic use of online videos. Founded in 2011, Vidyard goes beyond simple video hosting and management by providing tools for video enablement and analytics. Its platform enables organizations to create personalized and interactive video experiences, track viewer engagement, and convert views into actionable outcomes. Prominent companies like Honeywell, McKesson, and LinkedIn leverage Vidyard to enhance their video content strategies and cultivate deeper connections with their audiences, ultimately transforming viewers into customers.

Top Hat

Series B in 2014
As a student engagement and interactive teaching platform, Top Hat’s software helps college professors activate classrooms. In a world of digital distractions, countless academic studies have reinforced the reality that students better understand the day’s lesson if they’re asked to engage with peers, interact with complex material and participate in class. By requiring students to use their personal devices to answer quizzes, reply to polls, and tackle difficult simulations, Top Hat transforms the passive lecture hall into an engaging learning environment. As an advocate for traditional, on-campus education, Top Hat not only modernizes established teaching methods but also facilitates new approaches including the ‘flipped classroom,’ ‘group learning,’ and other creative solutions. Top Hat is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, hosts 120 full-time employees, and has been operating since its 2009 launch behind $22M in venture funding.

Well.ca

Venture Round in 2013
Well.ca is Canada's online destination for health, beauty and baby products and offers over 40,000 products with free shipping on all orders over $29. They also boast Canada's largest online assortment of Green & Natural products. With offices and a warehouse located in Guelph, Ontario, and an office in downtown Toronto, Well.ca is a proudly Canadian company that focuses on giving customers a simple and hassle-free shopping experience.

Vidyard

Series A in 2013
Vidyard is a video platform based in Kitchener, Ontario, that assists businesses in enhancing their communication and driving revenue through the strategic use of online videos. Founded in 2011, Vidyard goes beyond simple video hosting and management by providing tools for video enablement and analytics. Its platform enables organizations to create personalized and interactive video experiences, track viewer engagement, and convert views into actionable outcomes. Prominent companies like Honeywell, McKesson, and LinkedIn leverage Vidyard to enhance their video content strategies and cultivate deeper connections with their audiences, ultimately transforming viewers into customers.

Pressly

Seed Round in 2013
Pressly is a smart online platform that helps you aggregate the right content for your audience and establish your brand as a thought leader in your industry. Content is exactly like your audience: It’s all over the web, pinging from social networks to blogs via corporate websites and emails. Pressly allows all of this to happen in a single place: your hub.

Chango

Venture Round in 2012
Chango is a programmatic advertising company, purpose-built for the marketer. The company uses exclusive intent data and technology to create relevant, timely advertising campaigns, and produce rich customer insights. The company’s unique live-profile technology makes intent data available faster than anyone else to help clients efficiently build brand awareness, acquire new customers and retarget site visitors. Chango works with more than 60 of Fortune 500 marketers and companies such as eBay, Sears, Clorox, Sprint and Toyota. To find out more, visit: http://www.rubiconproject.com. Chango was recently acquired by Rubicon Project, a global technology company leading the automation of advertising. The acquisition allows Rubicon Project to expand its premium advertising marketplace to include intent marketing capabilities at scale. http://rubiconproject.com/

BufferBox

Seed Round in 2012
In today's environment, everyone shops online, typically for convenience. The problem? Failed parcel deliveries - being able to actually receive the purchases when they are delivered. BufferBox has developed an automated, self-serve kiosk to eliminate the frustrations and hassle involved with failed parcel deliveries. BufferBox has successfully deployed our first kiosk that allows for 24/7 pick-up of parcels at a convenient location. The kiosk supplies the user with a unique BufferBox address to have their parcel delivered to. Upon its arrival, the user is emailed a unique, one-time-use PIN code for the kiosk to retrieve their parcel on their schedule. The BufferBox service restores the convenience of online shopping.

Top Hat

Series A in 2012
As a student engagement and interactive teaching platform, Top Hat’s software helps college professors activate classrooms. In a world of digital distractions, countless academic studies have reinforced the reality that students better understand the day’s lesson if they’re asked to engage with peers, interact with complex material and participate in class. By requiring students to use their personal devices to answer quizzes, reply to polls, and tackle difficult simulations, Top Hat transforms the passive lecture hall into an engaging learning environment. As an advocate for traditional, on-campus education, Top Hat not only modernizes established teaching methods but also facilitates new approaches including the ‘flipped classroom,’ ‘group learning,’ and other creative solutions. Top Hat is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, hosts 120 full-time employees, and has been operating since its 2009 launch behind $22M in venture funding.

Fixmo

Series C in 2011
Founded in 2009, Fixmo Inc. is the mobile risk management (MRM) company that empowers organizations to mitigate risks around mobile deployments. Using Fixmo's solutions including its flagship Sentinel product, enterprises and government agencies ensure the integrity, compliance and auditability of every device used by their mobile workforce. Through a technology transfer agreement, Fixmo has commercialized and further advanced powerful MRM technologies initially developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). The company is headquartered in Sterling, VA with offices in Toronto. For more information about mobile risk management visit www.fixmo.com or follow @fixmo on Twitter.

Vidyard

Seed Round in 2011
Vidyard is a video platform based in Kitchener, Ontario, that assists businesses in enhancing their communication and driving revenue through the strategic use of online videos. Founded in 2011, Vidyard goes beyond simple video hosting and management by providing tools for video enablement and analytics. Its platform enables organizations to create personalized and interactive video experiences, track viewer engagement, and convert views into actionable outcomes. Prominent companies like Honeywell, McKesson, and LinkedIn leverage Vidyard to enhance their video content strategies and cultivate deeper connections with their audiences, ultimately transforming viewers into customers.

Fixmo

Series B in 2011
Founded in 2009, Fixmo Inc. is the mobile risk management (MRM) company that empowers organizations to mitigate risks around mobile deployments. Using Fixmo's solutions including its flagship Sentinel product, enterprises and government agencies ensure the integrity, compliance and auditability of every device used by their mobile workforce. Through a technology transfer agreement, Fixmo has commercialized and further advanced powerful MRM technologies initially developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). The company is headquartered in Sterling, VA with offices in Toronto. For more information about mobile risk management visit www.fixmo.com or follow @fixmo on Twitter.

Chango

Series B in 2011
Chango is a programmatic advertising company, purpose-built for the marketer. The company uses exclusive intent data and technology to create relevant, timely advertising campaigns, and produce rich customer insights. The company’s unique live-profile technology makes intent data available faster than anyone else to help clients efficiently build brand awareness, acquire new customers and retarget site visitors. Chango works with more than 60 of Fortune 500 marketers and companies such as eBay, Sears, Clorox, Sprint and Toyota. To find out more, visit: http://www.rubiconproject.com. Chango was recently acquired by Rubicon Project, a global technology company leading the automation of advertising. The acquisition allows Rubicon Project to expand its premium advertising marketplace to include intent marketing capabilities at scale. http://rubiconproject.com/

Peraso Technologies

Series A in 2010
Peraso Technologies Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company based in Toronto, Canada, that specializes in the development of multi-gigabit millimeter wave single-chip transceivers. Founded in 2008, the company focuses on creating array antenna solutions and 60 GHz wireless chipsets that comply with the IEEE 802.11ad specification. Its product lineup includes the W120, X710, and X610 chipsets, which cater to the mobile consumer electronics market, serving devices such as smartphones, tablets, and digital cameras. Peraso Technologies also offers custom solutions designed to meet specific customer needs, with applications spanning mobile rapid sync-n-go, desktop interconnect, wireless networking, in-room HD video streaming, cellular backhaul, medical imaging, security imaging, and vehicle-to-vehicle communication.

Well.ca

Series A in 2010
Well.ca is Canada's online destination for health, beauty and baby products and offers over 40,000 products with free shipping on all orders over $29. They also boast Canada's largest online assortment of Green & Natural products. With offices and a warehouse located in Guelph, Ontario, and an office in downtown Toronto, Well.ca is a proudly Canadian company that focuses on giving customers a simple and hassle-free shopping experience.

Chango

Series A in 2010
Chango is a programmatic advertising company, purpose-built for the marketer. The company uses exclusive intent data and technology to create relevant, timely advertising campaigns, and produce rich customer insights. The company’s unique live-profile technology makes intent data available faster than anyone else to help clients efficiently build brand awareness, acquire new customers and retarget site visitors. Chango works with more than 60 of Fortune 500 marketers and companies such as eBay, Sears, Clorox, Sprint and Toyota. To find out more, visit: http://www.rubiconproject.com. Chango was recently acquired by Rubicon Project, a global technology company leading the automation of advertising. The acquisition allows Rubicon Project to expand its premium advertising marketplace to include intent marketing capabilities at scale. http://rubiconproject.com/

Peraso Technologies

Series A in 2009
Peraso Technologies Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company based in Toronto, Canada, that specializes in the development of multi-gigabit millimeter wave single-chip transceivers. Founded in 2008, the company focuses on creating array antenna solutions and 60 GHz wireless chipsets that comply with the IEEE 802.11ad specification. Its product lineup includes the W120, X710, and X610 chipsets, which cater to the mobile consumer electronics market, serving devices such as smartphones, tablets, and digital cameras. Peraso Technologies also offers custom solutions designed to meet specific customer needs, with applications spanning mobile rapid sync-n-go, desktop interconnect, wireless networking, in-room HD video streaming, cellular backhaul, medical imaging, security imaging, and vehicle-to-vehicle communication.