Framework Venture Partners

Framework Venture Partners, established in 2018 and based in Toronto, Canada, is a venture capital firm that invests in high-growth technology sectors, including software, financial services, fintech, and artificial intelligence. The firm employs a data-driven investment approach and offers hands-on support to founding teams and CEOs, aiming to help them scale their companies globally.

Harkirat Ahluwalia

Associate

Hark Ahluwalia

Analyst

Ajay Gopal

Partner

Sam Hart

Analyst

Jonathan Jennings

Investment Associate

Abdullah Khalid

Analyst

Boyang Li

Principal

Andrew Lugsdin

Co-Founder

Peter Misek

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Jim Texier

Partner and CTO

Sarah Visser

Analyst

32 past transactions

Styx Intelligence

Seed Round in 2025
Styx Intelligence is an AI-driven platform focused on digital risk protection, aimed at safeguarding businesses against cyber threats and managing risks linked to digital transformations. The company offers visibility into potential threats targeting digital assets and supports remediation efforts. Its technology monitors a wide array of sources, including the surface, deep, and dark web, as well as social networks and news media, to identify vulnerabilities and exposures. By addressing concerns related to cyber security, privacy, regulatory compliance, third-party risks, and brand protection, Styx Intelligence enables organizations to navigate the complexities of the digital landscape more securely and effectively.

Vasco

Seed Round in 2025
Vasco is a software company that provides revenue architect, finance, consultants, revops solution for startup companies.

Maxa

Series A in 2024
Maxa AI is a technology company that specializes in business performance solutions, leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance financial operations for mid-sized and large organizations. The company's platform integrates seamlessly with existing enterprise resource planning systems and other data sources, enabling users to automate financial insights and streamline the monitoring, forecasting, and optimization of financial data. By providing a standardized semantic layer within the Snowflake Data Cloud, Maxa AI produces actionable insights as a low-cost commodity, helping businesses gain better and faster understanding of their past, present, and future performance. This innovative approach allows organizations to connect and transform data from multiple sources into a unified enterprise data model, facilitating the extraction of valuable insights from previously siloed information.

PAXAFE

Series A in 2024
Paxafe Inc., established in 2018 and headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, specializes in developing hardware and software solutions for secure packaging and supply chain management. The company offers Internet of Things (IoT) enabled products that are reusable, traceable, and secure, designed to protect high-margin freight from theft and chain-of-custody failures. Paxafe's solutions cater to various industries such as jewelry, luxury watches, diamonds, electronics, pharmaceuticals, and more. Its AI-enabled risk management platform integrates telematics and other data sources to predict adverse supply chain events, enabling intelligent cargo insurance and improving operational efficiencies for shippers, carriers, and insurance providers.

ZayZoon

Series B in 2024
ZayZoon Inc. is a Calgary-based company founded in 2014 that specializes in earned wage access solutions. The company provides a platform that allows employees to access their earned wages prior to their scheduled payday, thereby helping to alleviate financial stress. Through an online interface and a mobile application, employees can select the amount of funds they wish to withdraw, enabling them to take control of their finances and improve their overall financial well-being. ZayZoon's technology facilitates on-demand payment, addressing the needs of workers who require immediate access to their earnings.

ZayZoon

Series B in 2023
ZayZoon Inc. is a Calgary-based company founded in 2014 that specializes in earned wage access solutions. The company provides a platform that allows employees to access their earned wages prior to their scheduled payday, thereby helping to alleviate financial stress. Through an online interface and a mobile application, employees can select the amount of funds they wish to withdraw, enabling them to take control of their finances and improve their overall financial well-being. ZayZoon's technology facilitates on-demand payment, addressing the needs of workers who require immediate access to their earnings.

FlipGive

Venture Round in 2023
FlipGive is a team funding platform focused on transforming how youth sports teams raise money. The company enables members to pool their spending as a group, earning cash back from everyday purchases such as groceries, gas, clothing, equipment, dining, and travel. By creating a direct digital channel between more than 700 merchant partners and the North American youth sports market, FlipGive aggregates the traditionally fragmented market, allowing teams to manage their funds and collect donations efficiently. This innovative approach simplifies fundraising for youth sports teams, making it easier for them to secure financial support while fostering customer loyalty for participating brands.

Brizo Data

Series A in 2023
Brizo FoodMetrics is a leading data and analytics provider for the foodservice industry. Brizo helps the most competitive restauranteurs and restaurant vendors make better informed decisions and win their market.

ScaleHub

Series A in 2022
ScaleHub is a Managed Service Hub specializing in AI data labeling and data processing. The company offers a crowdsourcing platform designed to modernize traditional data extraction and document processing through artificial intelligence. By leveraging both public and private crowd communities worldwide, ScaleHub facilitates access to a virtual workforce and managed data processing services, enabling organizations to automate documents efficiently. The platform is built to support shared service centers and business process outsourcers, allowing them to scale operations on demand. Furthermore, ScaleHub maintains high standards of compliance, being HIPAA compliant, ISO 27001:2013 certified, and GDPR compliant, ensuring the delivery of high-quality data at scale.

Resilia

Series B in 2022
Resilia is a technology company based in New Orleans, Louisiana, that focuses on enhancing the operational capacity of nonprofit organizations through its business management platform. Founded in 2016, Resilia provides Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions that enable nonprofits to improve their performance and outcomes. The company also offers technical assistance, coaching, and capacity-building support to funders, such as corporations, cities, and private foundations. By facilitating a more comprehensive approach to funding, Resilia allows these entities to measure and scale the impact of their philanthropic efforts, empowering nonprofits to concentrate on their core missions and utilize their resources more effectively.

Bonsai

Series A in 2022
Bonsai is a technology company focused on enhancing the online shopping experience by integrating commerce directly into content. Founded in 2016, it originally started as a streetwear news app and evolved into a platform that partners with 30 publishers and incorporates 1,200 brands. Bonsai's discovery commerce technology enables users to buy products seamlessly while engaging with content, allowing them to complete purchases in just two taps. This innovative approach not only facilitates immediate transactions when consumer interest peaks but also provides publishers with a revenue model that reduces reliance on intrusive advertisements. By streamlining the path from product discovery to purchase, Bonsai aims to transform how consumers shop online.

MaxSold Incorporated

Series B in 2022
MaxSold Incorporated operates an online auction platform that facilitates estate sales, downsizing, and business liquidations. The company specializes in handling all aspects of these sales, allowing sellers to auction off a large volume of items efficiently. MaxSold caters to those looking to declutter or sell excess inventory, as well as to organizations seeking to raise funds through charity auctions. By connecting sellers with buyers in their local areas, MaxSold provides a streamlined process for selling unique items and treasures.

Paper

Series D in 2022
Paper, Inc., established in 2014 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with an additional office in Santa Monica, California, is a remote tutoring company. It designs an educational support system platform that offers live help, essay review, real-time feedback, and intervention tools for students and teachers. The platform aims to provide personalized learning support, connecting students with certified educators who can provide contextualized feedback and guide them towards a deeper understanding of academic concepts.

AI Arena

Seed Round in 2021
AI Arena is a developer of play-to-earn games that combines artificial intelligence with non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to create an engaging gaming experience. Players can own unique fighters characterized by attributes like power, speed, and accuracy, each embedded with an artificial neural network. This integration fosters AI intuition and literacy, allowing users to train their NFTs and participate in competitive battles within the Arena. By emphasizing the collaboration between human players and AI, AI Arena not only enhances entertainment value but also enables users to earn rewards through gameplay.

CarDoor

Seed Round in 2021
CarDoor is a Toronto-based technology company that is revolutionizing the car buying experience for consumers in Canada. It provides a fully online platform where customers can browse a diverse selection of high-quality certified vehicles, trade in their current cars, and complete their purchase seamlessly from home. The company's commitment to transparency simplifies the used car buying process by integrating essential services such as financing and insurance into a single e-commerce platform. By facilitating effortless at-home delivery and offering a straightforward online shopping experience, CarDoor aims to make car shopping accessible and convenient for all Canadians.

Paper

Series C in 2021
Paper, Inc., established in 2014 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with an additional office in Santa Monica, California, is a remote tutoring company. It designs an educational support system platform that offers live help, essay review, real-time feedback, and intervention tools for students and teachers. The platform aims to provide personalized learning support, connecting students with certified educators who can provide contextualized feedback and guide them towards a deeper understanding of academic concepts.

Incode

Series A in 2021
Incode Technologies Inc. is a digital identity company based in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in Europe and Latin America. Founded in 2015, Incode specializes in developing biometric identity solutions that enhance customer experiences across various industries, including banking, payment, hospitality, and retail. The company's flagship product, Incode Omni, is an omnichannel platform that utilizes artificial intelligence to provide secure and efficient identity verification services. Key offerings include Incode Hello, a chat and video conferencing tool; Incode Welcome, which facilitates account or credit card applications; Incode Facepay, a transaction verification system utilizing facial recognition; and Incode Talk, which provides face authentication for applications. Recognized as a leader in enterprise-grade facial recognition, Incode's products are trusted by major banks, financial institutions, governments, and retailers to deliver both convenience and security to end-users.

Countingup

Series A in 2021
Countingup is a UK-based company that offers a unique banking and accounting app designed primarily for sole traders and one-person enterprises. The platform merges banking and accounting functionalities, providing users with an integrated solution that simplifies bookkeeping tasks. Its features include a current account, a corporate contactless MasterCard, and automated services such as receipt management and tax calculations. By streamlining these processes, Countingup enables businesses to manage their finances efficiently and effectively within a single software application, eliminating the complexities often associated with traditional banking and accounting methods. The company positions itself as an accessible and user-friendly alternative to conventional financial services, aimed at enhancing productivity for small business owners.

Paper

Funding Round in 2020
Paper, Inc., established in 2014 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with an additional office in Santa Monica, California, is a remote tutoring company. It designs an educational support system platform that offers live help, essay review, real-time feedback, and intervention tools for students and teachers. The platform aims to provide personalized learning support, connecting students with certified educators who can provide contextualized feedback and guide them towards a deeper understanding of academic concepts.

Attunely

Series A in 2020
Attunely Inc. is a Seattle-based company that specializes in software development for the accounts receivable management industry, utilizing machine learning technology. Founded in 2017, Attunely has created a platform that enhances debt collection processes by employing behavioral and economic models trained on extensive historical data from over 100 million interactions. The platform generates personalized recovery strategies through real-time optimization and account segmentation, while ensuring compliance with federal and state regulations. By leveraging disposition activity data, Attunely’s technology enables clients to implement effective, multi-channel collection strategies, ultimately increasing recovery yields and reducing operational costs. The company's innovative approach aims to streamline receivable recovery, making it more efficient and profitable for its users.

Food.ee

Venture Round in 2020
Food.ee is an online food ordering platform focused on corporate catering and business lunches. The service allows organizations to easily order meals, snacks, cakes, and alcohol delivered directly to their offices. Users can select a price point, choose their preferred food type, and build a customized menu, simplifying the process of arranging meals for meetings and events. By connecting businesses with local restaurants, Food.ee offers a convenient solution for companies looking to streamline their catering needs.

Checkfront

Series A in 2020
Checkfront, Inc. is a cloud-based booking management and e-commerce platform that serves tour providers, accommodation managers, and rental businesses in Canada and internationally. Established in 2008 and headquartered in Victoria, Canada, with an additional office in Vancouver, Checkfront offers a comprehensive solution that enables its customers to manage various aspects of their operations, including activities, tours, accommodations, events, and rentals. The platform supports over 45,000 customers across 120 countries by centralizing reservations, managing inventories, and processing payments. Designed on a SaaS model, Checkfront provides a fully managed solution featuring automated updates, backups, and high-level security, all supported by a robust and high-availability network.

Daisy Intelligence

Series A in 2019
Daisy Intelligence is a Canadian AI software company based in Vaughan, founded in 2003. It provides explainable Decisions-as-a-Service for retail merchandise planning and insurance risk management. The company's autonomous AI system analyzes transactional and operational data to offer automated decision recommendations without requiring code, infrastructure, or data scientists. In retail, Daisy Intelligence offers promotional item selection, dynamic price optimization, demand forecasting, inventory allocation, and assortment planning. For insurance clients, it provides fraud detection, claims automation, and minimizes human intervention in claims processing. The company's solutions aim to deliver verifiable financial results with a significant return on investment.

FlipGive

Series A in 2019
FlipGive is a team funding platform focused on transforming how youth sports teams raise money. The company enables members to pool their spending as a group, earning cash back from everyday purchases such as groceries, gas, clothing, equipment, dining, and travel. By creating a direct digital channel between more than 700 merchant partners and the North American youth sports market, FlipGive aggregates the traditionally fragmented market, allowing teams to manage their funds and collect donations efficiently. This innovative approach simplifies fundraising for youth sports teams, making it easier for them to secure financial support while fostering customer loyalty for participating brands.

Klue

Seed Round in 2017
Klue is a B2B SaaS company that specializes in market and competitive intelligence, founded in 2015 by Jason Smith and Sarathy Naicker, and is based in Vancouver, Canada. The company offers a competitive enablement platform that assists sales and revenue teams in utilizing competitive intelligence to enhance their business outcomes. Klue's platform aggregates and organizes intelligence from various internal and external sources, providing actionable insights that help organizations navigate competitive environments effectively. By leveraging this curated intelligence, businesses can make informed decisions and improve their competitive positioning in the market.

Mobify

Series A in 2016
Mobify Research and Development, Inc. is a mobile customer engagement platform that enhances and manages relationships between retailers and their connected customers. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with additional offices in Chicago and Reading, Mobify specializes in Progressive Web Apps, enabling brands to improve conversion rates on mobile devices. The platform offers a suite of solutions, including tools for personalizing customer engagement through big data, managing mobile interactions from a centralized location, and optimizing app performance for developers. Prominent global brands such as Lancôme and Carnival Cruise Line utilize Mobify's services to foster customer loyalty and drive revenue growth. As a subsidiary of salesforce.com, Mobify continues to support retailers in meeting evolving customer expectations and maintaining a competitive advantage in the market.

Diply

Venture Round in 2015
Diply is a prominent social entertainment publisher founded in 2013, headquartered in London, Ontario, with additional offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Toronto. The company specializes in creating engaging content tailored for millennials, offering a diverse range of articles that include lifestyle tips and entertainment news. Diply serves over 68 million social media fans and generates five billion social impressions and one billion video views on Facebook each month. As a top 10 lifestyle property, it attracts more than 42 million monthly readers and ranks as the 85th largest website in the United States. Through its platform, Diply aggregates trending news articles, videos, and images, enabling consumers to stay informed about the latest trends while facilitating easy sharing across social media platforms.

Elastic Path

Venture Round in 2015
Elastic Path Software Inc. is a provider of enterprise commerce software and content management platform solutions, focusing on delivering innovative e-commerce experiences. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with an additional office in Ontario, the company specializes in Composable Commerce, allowing brands to implement a multi-vendor approach efficiently and with reduced risk. Its key offerings include Elastic Path Commerce, an enterprise platform that integrates with major marketing clouds such as Adobe Marketing Cloud, enabling effective merchandising, pricing, promotions, and order management. Elastic Path also offers a range of professional services, including development, site implementation, consulting, and training, aimed at enhancing e-commerce performance for clients across various sectors, including telecommunications, media, publishing, and consumer services. The company's commitment to empowering commerce leaders is reflected in its collaborative culture, which emphasizes open feedback and customer-centric values.

TouchBistro

Series A in 2015
TouchBistro, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing iPad-based point-of-sale (POS) solutions tailored for the food and beverage industry, including restaurants, cafes, bars, and food trucks. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, with an additional office in Toronto, TouchBistro provides various POS systems, such as Restaurant POS, Food Truck POS, and Bar POS, which streamline order management and payment processing. Its innovative system allows servers to take orders directly at the table, reducing the need for multiple trips to a terminal and minimizing errors. Additionally, TouchBistro offers features like TouchBistro Reservations for guest management, cloud-based reporting and analytics, and customer-facing displays, enhancing both operational efficiency and customer experience. The company's products are available through the Apple App Store in the United States and internationally.

Wattpad

Series C in 2014
Wattpad is a digital entertainment company based in Toronto, Ontario, founded in 2006 by Allen Lau and Ivan Yuen. It operates an online social storytelling platform that connects a global community of over 65 million users who engage with original stories for more than 20 billion minutes each month. The flagship app allows users to read and write stories, fostering collaboration through comments and multimedia features. In addition to its main platform, Wattpad has developed Tap, a product offering short, chat-based stories in multiple languages. The company also includes Wattpad Studios, which collaborates with industry partners to adapt stories for film, television, digital, and print formats. Furthermore, Wattpad Brand Solutions provides advertising products aimed at engaging Millennial and Gen Z audiences.

Trulioo

Series A in 2014
Trulioo is a global leader in identity verification, offering an electronic platform that enables businesses to instantly verify identities, documents, and corporate credentials online. The company's services facilitate compliance with cross-border anti-money laundering and know-your-customer regulations by assessing the risks associated with digital identities. Trulioo combines traditional methods of identity confirmation with social networking technologies to provide a robust solution for verifying identities in the online environment. Through its digital identity network, Trulioo helps businesses mitigate risks while ensuring secure transactions and accurate identity verification.

Wave

Series A in 2011
Wave is a financial management company that specializes in providing online software solutions for small businesses. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Wave offers a comprehensive suite of services including accounting, invoicing, payroll, and payment processing. With over 3 million users in more than 200 countries, Wave is dedicated to enhancing the operational efficiency of micro and small businesses by helping them manage their finances effectively. The platform enables business owners to improve cash flow and streamline financial tasks, allowing them to focus on growth and sustainability.
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