FounderFuel

FounderFuel is a mentor-driven venture accelerator based in Montreal, Canada, founded in 2011 by Real Ventures. The company offers a four-month intensive program designed to support new startups in their development journey. Through access to a network of experienced entrepreneurs, operators, and executives, FounderFuel helps participating companies refine their visions, expand their networks, and accelerate their progress. The program emphasizes technology, with a particular focus on leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning. By providing seed funding and strategic guidance, FounderFuel aims to empower startups to navigate the challenges of the venture landscape effectively.

Past deals in Toronto

Willful

Seed Round in 2020
Willful is building a suite of estate planning products for Canadians, starting with online wills. Using Willful, Canadians can create a will online in less than 20 minutes, for a fraction of the price of a traditional estate lawyer. Our goal is to make it easier to help people prepare for and deal with death, and to give Canadians and their families peace of mind that they have a plan in place.

Gravy

Seed Round in 2019
Gravy is a Toronto-based company that offers a pricing application designed for restaurants. This application utilizes customer purchasing data and trend analysis to identify upsell opportunities for digital orders. By leveraging anonymized data, Gravy helps restaurants optimize their pricing strategies and enhance customer engagement, ultimately aiming to increase revenue through targeted upselling. As of September 2019, Gravy operates as a subsidiary of Hopper Inc.

BenchSci

Seed Round in 2016
BenchSci is a developer of a research intelligence platform that leverages advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance biomedical discoveries. By translating both closed and open-access data into actionable recommendations, BenchSci enables researchers to optimize experiments, particularly in the area of antibody extraction. This innovative approach allows scientists to conduct more successful experiments efficiently, minimizing resource waste and accelerating drug discovery. The company's technology is utilized by pharmaceutical companies and over 4,300 research centers globally, underscoring its significant impact on the scientific community. BenchSci is backed by notable investors, including F-Prime, Gradient Ventures, and Inovia Capital.

Mosaic Manufacturing

Seed Round in 2016
Mosaic is building the tools to make manufacturing more sustainable and resilient. With flexible and automated additive manufacturing platforms, we empower industries to create high-quality products on-demand where and when they are needed, reducing reliance on traditional, resource-intensive methods. Founded in 2014, Mosaic has scaled-up their patented multi-material 3D printing technology into a full ecosystem of additive manufacturing solutions that are enabling the world’s top companies to re-envision and modernize their polymer supply chains. To learn more visit https://www.mosaicmfg.com/

Mejuri

Pre Seed Round in 2014
Mejuri Inc. is a Canadian company that specializes in the manufacture and sale of fine jewelry, including rings, necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and engagement pieces. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Toronto, Mejuri operates showrooms in New York, Toronto, and Chicago, while also offering its products through a direct-to-consumer e-commerce platform. This model allows Mejuri to provide quality handcrafted jewelry at accessible prices by eliminating middlemen and maintaining a fast supply chain that introduces new designs weekly. Committed to exceptional craftsmanship and ethical practices, Mejuri aims to empower women to incorporate luxury into their everyday lives. The company serves customers not only in Canada and the United States but also internationally.

Kiwi.ai

Seed Round in 2014
Kiwi is the world leader in motion recognition technology. With Kiwi's dead simple motion recognition platform, you can get your products tracking motions in literally a matter of minutes. Capture, analyze and improve anything: any motion, on any device, with any sensor. Based in Toronto, Canada, Kiwi's team works diligently to solve the ambiguous motions that surround us. By categorizing and analyzing motions, you can do anything from a simple repetition count in the gym, to analyzing safety metrics in a factory. The options are endless, reach out to us to find out how your products could benefit from motion recognition.

Vanhawks

Seed Round in 2014
Vanhawks Valour is an urban commuter bicycle with ultimate combination of safety, connectivity, design, and simplicity.

Opencare

Seed Round in 2013
Opencare Inc. operates a healthcare discovery platform that connects patients with healthcare providers in North America, primarily focusing on dental services. Founded in 2012 and based in Toronto, Canada, the company's platform allows users to find and book appointments online with a variety of healthcare professionals, including dentists, chiropractors, massage therapists, physiotherapists, and optometrists. By transforming the dental industry, Opencare aims to provide patients with confidence in receiving high-quality care while also facilitating practice growth for top dentists. The platform streamlines interactions between patients and providers, ensuring a convenient and rewarding experience for all users. Opencare was previously known as HealthKiwi Inc. before rebranding in March 2018.

Epilogger

Seed Round in 2012
Epilogger operates as an online aggregator of user-generated content. It collects stories, photos, videos, blogs, and conversations about online events from users and social networking sites, and presents them through a single interactive hub. Epilogger was launched in 2011 and is based in Ontario, Canada.

OneClass

Pre Seed Round in 2012
OneClass is an educational platform that allows university students to collaborate and share study resources from self-created lecture notes to study guides. At the same time, we have subject experts creating high quality video tutorials for common university subjects ranging from concepts within a textbook to step-by-step solutions to past exams. Today, we have helped over 600,000 students in North America sharing across 30,000 different courses along with over 5,000 video tutorials that have already been created by our subject experts. Our mission is to not only become the largest library of education resources for university and college students, but also provide the necessary tools for students to successfully graduate and land their very first job. That’s how we define a true success!

Seevibes

Seed Round in 2012
Seevibes, founded in 2011 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, specializes in audience intelligence to enhance performance marketing across multiple devices and advertising networks. The company offers services that include a comprehensive Audience Management Platform, which integrates customer and proprietary audience data to optimize digital campaign performance. Its Engagement Graph maps social media interactions, providing insights through natural language processing, profile enrichment, geo-profiling, machine learning, and brand affinity metrics. Initially focused on social TV analytics, Seevibes has expanded its capabilities and geographic reach, developing unique technologies to enrich social media profiling and target specific audiences effectively. By analyzing billions of data points related to TV viewers' engagement, Seevibes aims to assist brands and media agencies in creating tailored marketing strategies that enhance the effectiveness of social media advertising campaigns.

OneClass

Pre Seed Round in 2011
OneClass is an educational platform that allows university students to collaborate and share study resources from self-created lecture notes to study guides. At the same time, we have subject experts creating high quality video tutorials for common university subjects ranging from concepts within a textbook to step-by-step solutions to past exams. Today, we have helped over 600,000 students in North America sharing across 30,000 different courses along with over 5,000 video tutorials that have already been created by our subject experts. Our mission is to not only become the largest library of education resources for university and college students, but also provide the necessary tools for students to successfully graduate and land their very first job. That’s how we define a true success!
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