Freycinet Ventures

Freycinet Ventures supports and accelerates high-impact Canadian ventures through financial investment, experienced mentorship, and access to networks. Portfolio companies work directly with its Chief Investment Officer and President, James Appleyard.

James Appleyard

Founder, Chief Investment Officer and President

16 past transactions

eleven-x

Venture Round in 2020
eleven-x™ is an industry leading IoT and Smart City technology company focused on improving the parking experience for all with its award-winning, smart parking technology solution, eXactpark™. The solution helps cities and institutions successfully address mobility challenges by helping drivers quickly find available parking while its industry-leading 99.5% accuracy and 24/7 data/insights help support improved parking policies, resulting in reduced traffic, improved safety and lower GHG emissions. eXactpark’s comprehensive software platform and patented SPS-X sensor, support numerous use cases including curbside management, demand-based pricing and compliance tracking to help municipalities deliver enhanced services and effectively manage resources. The solution is currently being utilized by cities and institutions across North America, including Arlington County, VA; Kirkland, WA; The Town of Oakville, Ontario and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The company was established in 2014 and is based in Ontario, Canada. For more information please visit eleven-x.com.

PUSH

Seed Round in 2020
PUSH's mission is to improve human performance through technology. PUSH leverages the same proprietary technology to provide solutions for enterprise customers in professional sports, wellness and military under the PUSH Pro brand, and consumers under the PUSH Athlete brand. PUSH Pro provides coaches and trainers with solutions to remotely schedule, deliver programs, and receive and analyze data from users. PUSH Athlete is designed to combine an engaging connected fitness experience (pro-level coaches, data, community and benchmarking) with traditional equipment (affordable, effective and accessible) by "making dumb equipment smart".

WatrHub

Venture Round in 2020
WatrHub is a data and intelligence company that delivers predictive intelligence on infrastructure opportunities in the US and Canada. WatrHub is the only source of predictive market information on how, when, and why these water infrastructure investments will be made. Its AI engine transforms millions of public documents into actionable sales leads and market insights. Manufacturers subscribe to WatrHub to secure their next water utility clients and bring their advanced, efficient technologies to aging water infrastructure. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Flipd

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Flipd is the Digital Wellness Company that's engineering healthy screen habits, helping people lead happier, more productive, and tech-balanced lives. With over 1M users and 1+ billion minutes of time well spent, Flipd is changing behavior by nudging people to live in the moment and engage in more wellness activities. Whether it's to focus, meditate, or or get better sleep, Flipd empowers people around the world to become happier, healthier, and more productive. Flipd also partners with leading wellness content creators to feature the best audio tracks for the unique needs of individuals. Since launching in 2016, Flipd has been featured in the NYT, WSJ, WP, NPR, INC, WIRED, and hundreds of other publications globally, and is a fast-growing force in the $600B wellness market.

PartnerStack

Series A in 2019
PartnerStack (YC15) is on a mission to change the way companies reach customers through channel sales. PartnerStack enables companies to reach more customers through partnerships. The platform provides the enables some of the fastest growing companies like Asana, Intuit and Freshworks with the tools required to build, manage, and scale channel partner programs. The network brings companies and channel partners together. We pride ourselves on building something people want but our company is more than the feedback we receive from our users. Every member of our team is passionate about learning and adds something unique to our culture. We love to work with people who are consummately curious are incredibly supportive.

Sampler

Series A in 2019
Sampler is a provider of digital product sampling services. The company helps consumer-packaged goods brands of all sizes and categories deliver physical samples to digitally targeted consumers. Its turnkey solution helps brands gather consumer feedback and demographic insights that helps increase successful trials and in turn conversion rates.

#Paid

Series A in 2018
#Paid is a tech company that operates a creative marketing platform that combines brand and creator collaboration. The platform allows brands to collaborate with relevant artists, travelers, storytellers, and photographers from all over the world for product placement on social media platforms.

Hubba

Series B in 2018
Hubba operates a platform for brand marketers. Its platform helps users in the digital representation of their product portfolio; creation of product stories by pulling together product information, rich media, and promotional and external content into a single source; and provision of access to the product content for retailers. The company’s platform also enables users to synchronize product content across various digital channels; gain visibility into how retailers are portraying their brand to consumers; and tailor what product information can be seen, added, and modified by their partners. The company is based in Toronto, Canada.

TrendMD

Venture Round in 2018
TrendMD provides article recommendations for doctors. They partner with scientific publishers such Elsevier and Oxford University Press and have them add a line of their JavaScript code to their journal websites so that they can show 10 similar article links at the bottom of each page. Their mission is to accelerate the rate at which humanity's knowledge advances, by matching readers with the right articles. They serve 500 million recommendations to more than 60 million readers per month and are nearing profitability after recently graduating from Y Combinator -- the startup accelerator that incubated Reddit, Dropbox, and Airbnb.

Set Scouter

Venture Round in 2018
Set Scouter is the first and only full-service marketplace that connects film producers with location owners. Locations is one of the crucial aspects of a production — it's easy to underestimate their importance. Set Scouter is the only marketplace that takes the hassle out of location scouting by facilitating the process end-to-end.

Mosaic Manufacturing

Venture Round in 2018
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/

Borrowell

Debt Financing in 2016
Borrowell is a credit education company that offers free credit scores, education, and weekly credit monitoring. It also offers innovative digital tools like personalized credit coaching and AI-powered financial product recommendations. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.

Proteocyte AI

Seed Round in 2014
Proteocyte AI is a molecular diagnostics company developing solutions to predict the risk of developing cancer. Its platform identifies specific protein biomarkers that operate in combination with proprietary algorithms, advanced imaging, and digital pathology.

PumpUp

Seed Round in 2014
PumpUp is a positive community to share and achieve your health goals. The PumpUp community is a safe and supportive space to share your journey toward a healthy body and healthy mind. Share your challenges and triumphs, track your fitness, and receive unparalleled support from a global community of like-minded people. PumpUp equips you with the tools you need to live a healthy lifestyle in a positive way. With millions of inspiring people cheering you on, it’s never been easier to become the best version of you! PumpUp is headquartered in Toronto, with offices in San Francisco.

Lucent Sky

Venture Round in 2014
Lucent Sky is an enterprise software provider of application vulnerability mitigation (AVM) that saves more than 90% of the time and cost of securing an application. With just a few mouse click, Lucent Sky AVM goes through a website’s source code, finds and fixes problems that hackers can exploit, and then delivers the secured source code back to the user for deployment. Lucent Sky makes application security simple, integral and manageable, and is the first commercial solution in application vulnerability mitigation (AVM).
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