Front Row Ventures

Front Row Ventures believe , students are in a unique position to challenge the status quo. Their university years are an entrepreneurial sweet spot, and they want their peers to capitalize on their potential. Their want to help them to launch unthinkable ventures, and start companies that change the world.Their bigger mission is to spread startup and venture capital culture across Montreal campuses. They engage and empower students to learn, get involved, and create from Montreal’s vibrant technology sector.

Mikhail Karmali

Investment Associate

Makoto Rheault-Kihara

Campus Partner

19 past transactions

EmergConnect

Pre Seed Round in 2021
EmergConnect is a digital platform for patient self-assessment, registration, and individualized wait time predictions​. The company's platform makes triage and registration easier, asking patients questions they can understand, using artificial intelligence that understands natural language to gather patient information automating clinical documentation improving patient throughput and clinical outcomes. EmergConnect's AI makes accurate clinical predictions, flags high-risk patients, and forecast unique wait times.

Maket

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Democratizing architecture with generative AI— Maket allows anyone to design & plan their new build or renovation project in a few simple steps.

FTEX

Pre Seed Round in 2021
FTEX is a Montreal start-up that is producing next-generation smart connected drive systems for light electric vehicles. We provide the electronics, software and applications that control the vehicle's motor, all of it connected in real-time over a cellular network to FTEX’s Cloud. This enables and provides various functionalities to users via our mobile EVionics operating system, such as location, usage, diagnostics, security, remote locking, collision detection, service, and theft insurance. Our mission is to accelerate the use of personal electric vehicles with smart and connected motor controllers that enhance performance, range and user experience through implementation of novel technology and standards.

SquareFeet.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2021
SquareFeet.ai is designed to reinvent the way real estate developers and brokers work on launching a new condo or rental project, ensuring the highest revenue given the current demand in the market. Our product offers a new way to monitor how residential projects are sold and rented by providing 3 services in one product, (1) real time market analysis (2) sophisticated initial price list generation and (3) real time revenue optimization. To deliver its product, SqaureFeet.ai has analyzed millions of listings and created machine learning models to enable real estate market insight, price prediction and sales velocity optimization.
LSK is looking to tap computer vision to build disease testing hardware (a “lab in a box,” as they put it) small/fast enough to keep in a doctor’s office or workplace. The company says it’s currently running the Zika Virus field trials in Latin America and is looking at how they can bring their computer vision approach in to help tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. They also say they’ve seen over $100,000 in pre-orders to date.

Aeroflux Braking Systems

Seed Round in 2020
Aeroflux is engaged in the design, development, and manufacture of magnetic brakes for business, commuter, and commercial aircraft. Their patent-pending brake technology enables completely contactless, wear-free braking of even large passenger jets.

Gallea

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Gallea is Canada's fastest growing online art gallery, showcasing local talent worldwide. It aims to become the world's largest art distribution network in the world. Founded in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Rokulo

Venture Round in 2020
Rokulo is focused on helping mining and construction operations of all sizes significantly optimize their processing circuits and profit margins, in real-time, by using our continuous machine vision system.

Axya

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Axya startup created an online platform connecting small and medium-sized shop owners with suppliers. It provides an easy-to-use marketplace that standardizes and centralizes the subcontracting process for the manufacturing industry.

Merinio

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Merinio Workforce Automation” is a cloud based software designed to increase operational efficiency in dynamic and complex business environments. It empowers organizations to streamline the planning, scheduling, compliance and management of workforce operations in order to minimize costs while increasing employee satisfaction. It delivers real time communications of operational information to those who need it and when, positively impacting customer satisfaction. By providing the necessary tools to master the complete schedule management cycle, we allow you to make adjustments in an instant and optimize the use of your human capital.

Nomic

Venture Round in 2020
Nomic is a bioengineering company working to make the human proteome as broadly and easily accessible as the human genome. They are building the nELISA, a next-generation ELISA platform for measuring proteins at scale and at high throughput. They offer scientists protein profiling solutions to empower them to decide the scope and scale of their experiments.

Spectra Plasmonics

Venture Round in 2020
Spectra Plasmonics provides portable technology that offers chemical sensing products. Their core technology is Amplifi ID, which enables chemical analysis without complex lab steps. It offers an optimal, high-performance drug checking solution. They provide software that generates a report for each scanned drug about the detected sample contents.

CHK PLZ

Venture Round in 2020
CHK PLZ provides customers with a hassle-free payment solution via a POS-integrated app, which in-turn increases table turnover, and provides restaurants with key insights on customer habits.

Civalgo

Seed Round in 2019
Civalgo is an AI-powered Operational Productivity Management Platform based on the ARR business model for operations driven specialty contractors in the heavy civil construction industry. Basically for companies that that pour concrete, pave roads or build bridges amongst other things. We are talking about big jobs and specialty trades in the heavy civil industry with impact in the overall marketplace and connecting sectors. The construction industry is based on three pillars: Planning, Field Execution, and Project Control. Results are uncompromising as the productivity of the construction industry doesn't follow the increase in owner demands. It is very difficult for SME's to manage the entire process without accurate and real-time data. The Civalgo Solution provides a one-stop-shop solution for the whole end-to-end process from estimating to construction.

Reaction Dynamics

Venture Round in 2019
Reaction Dynamics is a rocket company that develops breakthrough launch technology based on hybrid propulsion. They provide products that include control and recycling. It has created a game-changing launch technology that uses a novel hybrid propulsion system to significantly reduce the environmental impact of reaching space when compared to current technologies. This technology has the potential to provide regular and low-cost access to space. Aurora, Reaction Dynamics' first demonstration suborbital launch vehicle, is currently in qualification testing, with a first flight scheduled for 2023.

Merinio

Venture Round in 2018
Merinio Workforce Automation” is a cloud based software designed to increase operational efficiency in dynamic and complex business environments. It empowers organizations to streamline the planning, scheduling, compliance and management of workforce operations in order to minimize costs while increasing employee satisfaction. It delivers real time communications of operational information to those who need it and when, positively impacting customer satisfaction. By providing the necessary tools to master the complete schedule management cycle, we allow you to make adjustments in an instant and optimize the use of your human capital.

Pelcro

Seed Round in 2018
Leverage out-of-the-box user flows for authentication, authorization, payments, shipping, and more. You can utilize our robust APIs and SDKs on the web and mobile for ultimate flexibility.

Korbit Technologies

Seed Round in 2018
Korbit’s mission is to democratize education by providing a high-quality, interactive, and personalized education for students around the world at a low cost. Korbit Technologies is developing a real-time interactive and personalized intelligent tutor for learning data science and AI. The AI tutor adapts itself to the learner's needs and provides real-time targeted pedagogical support (such as definitions, explanations, examples, illustrations, mind maps), which has been shown to make a big difference in learning outcomes and student motivation, and have been designed to scale to thousands of courses and millions of students. The Korbit team and its award-winning AI tutors have successfully delivered its AI and data science training program to nearly 20,000 learners worldwide. Recent research proved that Korbit’s learners benefited from a notable increase in learning outcomes and skill acquisition and boosted their learning motivation by studying with Korbit’s platform powered by AI. Thanks to the continuing support from Mila and other partners, Korbit has been recognized as one of the world’s top 100 AI startups (CB Insights) and has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, Bloomberg, Financial Times, and C2 Montreal.
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