Fulmer & Company

Fulmer & Company is a private equity firm based in Vancouver, Canada, specializing in investments in small and mid-market companies across various sectors, including hospitality, digital, manufacturing, recycling, and transportation. Founded in 2010, the firm typically invests between CAD 2 million and CAD 15 million in enterprises with revenues exceeding CAD 1 million. Fulmer & Company emphasizes the importance of fostering mutually beneficial partnerships grounded in trust and integrity, prioritizing the needs and values of the individuals behind the businesses it supports. By leveraging direct operational experience, the firm aims to help its portfolio companies achieve their full growth potential.

Karen Gilmore

VP and General Counsel

Armstrong C.A., CPA, Leanne

VP and CFO

Past deals in British Columbia

Omnie

Angel Round in 2021
Provider of managed customer services dedicated to unifying all support channels on a single platform. The company's platform supports voice, SMS (short message service), email, contact form, and live chat along social media, providing clients with a customized platform to meet their business requirements while remaining user-friendly and design-focused.

Little Kitchen Academy

Venture Round in 2020
Little Kitchen Academy Ltd provides Montessori education through culinary arts. It enables children to learn making meals from scratch to consumption while developing their math and science concepts and working on their reading skills and table manners. The company offers various programs for children with ages 3–5 years, 6–8 years, 9–12 years, and 13 and above. Little Kitchen Academy Ltd is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada with additional locations throughout British Columbia, Canada.

CareCru

Venture Round in 2020
CareCru Inc. is a Vancouver-based company established in 2016 that provides a comprehensive platform for dental practices. Its key offering is Donna™, an AI-powered virtual dental practice assistant designed to enhance practice management and patient experience. Donna automates various day-to-day functions, including real-time online scheduling and patient engagement, thereby allowing dental offices to acquire new patients and gain insights into their health. By managing routine tasks efficiently, Donna frees up staff to focus on more critical activities such as patient interaction and treatment acceptance. This innovative solution effectively acts as an extension of the dental team, improving operational efficiency and contributing to better patient care.

Clir Renewables

Private Equity Round in 2020
Clir Renewables Inc. develops cloud based renewable energy asset management and reporting software. Its software-as-a-service platform assists asset managers and owners in enhancing annual energy production and domain expertise, monitoring asset health, and managing financial and technical risk. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada with an additional office in Glasgow, United Kingdom.

Social Nature

Seed Round in 2019
With Social Nature, people can try natural products for FREE in exchange for writing a product review on social media, #trynatural.

Intelligent City

Venture Round in 2019
Intelligent City Inc., founded in 2008 and based in Vancouver, Canada, specializes in the design and construction of urban housing. The company has developed a technology-enabled building system aimed at providing high-quality multi-family residences that tackle critical urban challenges, including affordability and sustainability. This innovative system integrates the various stages of construction—design, architecture, engineering, and fabrication—into a single platform. By employing the principles of mass customization, Intelligent City combines the benefits of personalized, custom-made products with the cost efficiencies typically associated with mass production, effectively addressing the diverse needs of urban residents.

CareCru

Seed Round in 2019
CareCru Inc. is a Vancouver-based company established in 2016 that provides a comprehensive platform for dental practices. Its key offering is Donna™, an AI-powered virtual dental practice assistant designed to enhance practice management and patient experience. Donna automates various day-to-day functions, including real-time online scheduling and patient engagement, thereby allowing dental offices to acquire new patients and gain insights into their health. By managing routine tasks efficiently, Donna frees up staff to focus on more critical activities such as patient interaction and treatment acceptance. This innovative solution effectively acts as an extension of the dental team, improving operational efficiency and contributing to better patient care.

Caffè Artigiano

Acquisition in 2017
Caffe Artigiano Inc. owns and operates Italian-themed coffee houses. The company offers coffee beverages and foods; and baked goods, soups, and sandwiches. It also offers franchise and lease options; and catering services. In addition, the company sells whole bean coffee and accessories online. Caffe Artigiano Inc. was founded in 2000 and is based in Burnaby, Canada. It has locations in Vancouver, Burnaby, Richmond, West Vancouver, North Vancouver, and Calgary, Canada. As of January 18, 2016, Caffe Artigiano Inc. is under reorganization.

Weatherhaven

Private Equity Round in 2014
Weatherhaven Global Resources Ltd. engineers, manufactures, and installs portable shelters, camps, and systems for application in remote sites worldwide. It offers commercial shelters, such as camp housings, fabric shelters and tents, construction and mining camps, and maintenance shelters; and military shelters, such as military tents and camps, field kitchens and ablutions, and tactical and vehicle maintenance shelters. The company provides medical shelters, such as field hospitals, portable surgical centers, mobile and medical clinics, and medical shelter systems; and first aid, emergency response, triage, military medical, and emergency response shelters. It offers fabric shelters for accommodation, wash houses, kitchens, dining halls, core shacks, offices, recreation facilities, and first-aid clinics. The company provides expandable container shelters to facilitate transport logistics. It offers portable shelters and systems for geographical location and climate, transportation logistics, and occupants. The company provides electrical and mechanical shelter systems, furnishings, and floors for kitchens, dining complexes, laundries, accommodations, offices, warehouses, and workshops; power generation and distribution, waste management, camp security, and fire and force protection camp systems; and water filtration, storage, and distribution camp systems. It offers engineering and design, transportation and logistic, installation, life-cycle management, training, consignment sales, and parts. The company provides remote-site logistics from initial camp or shelter design to transport, site installation, dismantling, and refurbishment. Weatherhaven Global Resources Ltd. was founded in 1981 and is based in Burnaby, Canada with manufacturing facilities in Vancouver, Canada; South Africa; and South America.

Nuheat

Private Equity Round in 2008
Nuheat is well-known for its innovative technology and providing customers with reliable, customized, and high-performance floor heating systems including North America’s first Wi-Fi enabled floor-heating thermostat. With a 4,000 point distribution network across the US and Canada, the incorporation of Nuheat into Pentair’s portfolio of floor heating and freeze protection technology will enable Pentair’s Thermal Building Solutions to provide floor heating products to more customers in North America.