Gibraltar Ventures

Gibraltar Ventures is a Toronto-based venture investment firm. Founded in 2013, we invest in private, early to mid- stage technology-based companies catering to consumers and small to medium-sized businesses — the B2C and B2SMB space. We do more than simply invest — our business purpose is to supply intellectual capital designed to accelerate a company’s speed-to-market. Specifically, we provide portfolio companies with: (1) sales & marketing expertise to execute “go-to-market” strategies; (2) access to senior corporate decision makers to open up new channels and speed decision-making; and (3) capital in the critical Series “A” and “B” rounds of funding to accelerate growth.
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Daniel Abramov

Advisor

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Luigi Fraquelli

Co-Founder and MD

Anthony Lacavera

Co-Founder and Vice Chairman

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Joelle Maslaton

VP and Venture Partner

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Joseph Mimran

Co-Founder

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Joe Mimran

Co-Founder and Chairman

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Shay Nulman

VP and Venture Partner

Cam di Prata

Founder, CEO and Managing Partner

Som Seif

Co-Founder

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Valerie Sorbie

Partner and MD

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Val Sorbie

Partner and MD

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Jeremy Stepak

Advisor

19 past transactions

Pressly

Venture Round in 2015
Pressly is a smart online platform that helps you aggregate the right content for your audience and establish your brand as a thought leader in your industry. Content is exactly like your audience: It’s all over the web, pinging from social networks to blogs via corporate websites and emails. Pressly allows all of this to happen in a single place: your hub.

Tkees

Venture Round in 2013
TKEES manufactures sandals and flip flops for girls and kids. It offers its products through online stores. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Spotify

Series F in 2013
Spotify AB provides a digital music-streaming service that gives on-demand access of songs on devices, computers, mobiles, tablets, and home entertainment systems. Its services allow subscribers to search and discover music collections of friends, artists, and celebrities; build a personal collection playlist; and share music on Spotify, Facebook, Twitter, blog, and via email with friends. It also offers research and development services in Sweden. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. Spotify AB operates as a subsidiary of Spotify Technology S.A.

LXRandCo

Acquisition in 2017
In 2012, Fred Mannella along with his partner, Kei Izawa began building the foundations of LXR & Co. With roots in the wholesale business, they began growing LXR with each piece bought and sold. Now with 22 retail boutiques, numerous rotating pop-ups, a growing wholesale business and a booming e-commerce website (LXRCO.COM), LXR is taking off to new heights with its omni-channel approach and an impressive network of trusted logistics partners around the world. For more visit: www.LXRCO.com

Tilley Endurables, Inc.

Venture Round in 2018
Tilley Endurables, Inc. designs and manufactures hats and travel clothing in Canada. It offers men’s hats which includes medium brim, broad brim, snap up brim, caps, and winter hat; clothing which includes outwear, tops, bottoms, UPF rated clothing; bags and belts, socks and underwear, and hat accessories. It also offers women’s hat, outwear, top, bottom, skirt and dress, gift; accessories which includes bags and belt, socks and underwear, and hat accessories. Further it offers Kids hat. The company provides its products to outdoor specialty shops, men’s wear shops, travel stores, hat boutiques, resorts, garden centers, birding stores, golf shops, dermatology clinics, and women's boutiques; and retailers in North America, the United Kingdom, and internationally. It offers its products online; and through its family-owned stores in Toronto, Mississauga, Montreal, Brossard, Victoria, and Vancouver through catalogue retail. Tilley Endurables, Inc. was formerly known as Alex Tilley and Family's Nautical Gear. The company was incorporated in 1980 and is based in Toronto, Canada. Tilley Endurables, Inc. was a former subsidiary of Alex Tilley Enterprises, Inc.

CrowdRiff

Seed Round in 2016
CrowdRiff is a visual marketing platform for travel and tourism brands that allows to discover and deliver top-performing visual content to every marketing channel. Powered by artificial intelligence, its platform allows marketers to source and share top performing visuals with their respective audiences, at scale. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Sheerly Genius Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Sheertex is a pantyhose brand that sells indestructible pantyhose. The company's pantyhose is made with the same type of fiber found in bulletproof vests and climbing equipment, enabling women to find and purchase premium and stylish inner garments.

Globalive XMG

Seed Round in 2015
Globalive XMG Inc. develops augmented reality solutions. It builds a technological platform that allows end users to augment various objects. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Toronto, Canada. As of February 17, 2016, Globalive XMG Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Civic Resource Group International, Inc.

Blooom, Inc.

Series A in 2015
Founded by several Financial Advisors that had spent 15 years managing money for very wealthy clients, blooom has become of the nation’s fastest growing robo-advisors with a specific focus on helping any American with a workplace retirement account like a 401k or 403b. Blooom is a Registered Investment Advisor with the SEC, and aims to scale fiduciary best practices on low fees, and appropriate asset allocation and diversification, to millions of Americans who have workplace retirement accounts, yet no access to a financial advisor and no desire to "DIY it."

CrowdRiff

Series A in 2018
CrowdRiff is a visual marketing platform for travel and tourism brands that allows to discover and deliver top-performing visual content to every marketing channel. Powered by artificial intelligence, its platform allows marketers to source and share top performing visuals with their respective audiences, at scale. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

CivicConnect

Series A in 2016
Our Mission Enable cities “as enterprises” to improve efficiency and sustainability while providing citizens, visitors and workers the tools they need to more easily explore and navigate their cities. Our Offering CivicConnect provides a suite of applications that leverage Augmented Reality (AR) and the latest mobile technologies to deliver a compelling user experience. With an initial focus on urban mobility, these applications are built on the CivicConnect Platform, a cloud-based platform, purpose-built for the public sector, that enables rapid deployment while providing the data and analytics needed to make smart decisions. Developers can use the platform and growing set of APIs to create their own Smart City applications. Our History CivicConnect, formerly Civic Resource Group, brings 15 years’ experience delivering digital solutions and services to the Public Sector. With customers across sectors and agency levels, CivicConnect has a deep understanding of the needs, resources and priorities of this sector, and harnesses this knowledge and expertise as we continue to build our CivicConnect Platform and applications. Our Focus As the urban population grows and the populace relies on single passenger trips, congestion increases, and the staggering economic and environmental consequences from this congestion demands alternatives. Public Sector entities must find timely and cost-effective ways to tackle the challenges of urban mobility to ensure sustainable, economically viable cities. Today, CivicConnect provides our integrated data management platform, AR based applications and intelligence for delivering urban mobility solutions. Over time, the CivicConnect data management platform and applications will grow to address all aspects of a connected Smart City.

Fanxchange

Series B in 2016
FanXchange Limited operates an online and mobile secondary live events ticketing marketplace that provides access for loyalty and reward programs. Its platform enables program members to earn and redeem points for the purchase of tickets of sports, concert, and theatre events in North America. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Toronto, Canada with an additional office in New York. As of April 11, 2019, FanXchange Limited operates as a subsidiary of Vivid Seats Ltd.

Vault

Seed Round in 2016
Vault provides the most comprehensive software platform in the market to address the financial burden of student loan debt. Our intuitive web-based tool provides a highly secure employee experience that empowers employees to achieve financial freedom. With the option to make contributions to employees’ debt repayment, Vault enables companies to attract and retain their valuable talent. Vault empowers companies with relevant, flexible products that provide advice, create pathways to manage student debt more effectively, and enable paying-down student loans while building 401(k) savings.

LXRandCo

Seed Round in 2016
In 2012, Fred Mannella along with his partner, Kei Izawa began building the foundations of LXR & Co. With roots in the wholesale business, they began growing LXR with each piece bought and sold. Now with 22 retail boutiques, numerous rotating pop-ups, a growing wholesale business and a booming e-commerce website (LXRCO.COM), LXR is taking off to new heights with its omni-channel approach and an impressive network of trusted logistics partners around the world. For more visit: www.LXRCO.com
Vision Critical is a continuous customer insights solution provider that enables organizations to drive better business outcomes while ensuring world-class customer journeys. By combining deep insight with broad feedback, Vision Critical empowers some of the most powerful brands in the world to improve the customer experience. Hundreds of leading brands including BuzzFeed, LinkedIn and Red Bull are building better products and fostering customer loyalty with Vision Critical. To learn more about Vision Critical, follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, or visit us at www.visioncritical.com.

Blue Ant Media

Series B in 2013
Blue Ant Media is a privately held integrated Canadian media company that creates and distributes engaging content in lifestyle, travel, documentary, music and entertainment categories. The company owns specialty channels Travel+Escape, Bite TV and AUX TV along with four premium, commercial-free channels Oasis HD, HIFI, eqHD, radX and their companion websites. Blue Ant Media’s digital publishing division produces daily content for its web and mobile sites and recently launched AUX Magazine, a monthly music tablet magazine. Producing over 400 hours of original content, Blue Ant Media develops both in house programming and co-productions with international partners. Blue Ant recently acquired Cottage Life Media Inc., publishers of Cottage Life, Cottage, Outdoor Canada and Canadian Home Workshop and producers of the Spring & Fall Cottage Life consumer shows.

LXRandCo

Debt Financing in 2020
In 2012, Fred Mannella along with his partner, Kei Izawa began building the foundations of LXR & Co. With roots in the wholesale business, they began growing LXR with each piece bought and sold. Now with 22 retail boutiques, numerous rotating pop-ups, a growing wholesale business and a booming e-commerce website (LXRCO.COM), LXR is taking off to new heights with its omni-channel approach and an impressive network of trusted logistics partners around the world. For more visit: www.LXRCO.com

Tilley Endurables, Inc.

Acquisition in 2018
Tilley Endurables, Inc. designs and manufactures hats and travel clothing in Canada. It offers men’s hats which includes medium brim, broad brim, snap up brim, caps, and winter hat; clothing which includes outwear, tops, bottoms, UPF rated clothing; bags and belts, socks and underwear, and hat accessories. It also offers women’s hat, outwear, top, bottom, skirt and dress, gift; accessories which includes bags and belt, socks and underwear, and hat accessories. Further it offers Kids hat. The company provides its products to outdoor specialty shops, men’s wear shops, travel stores, hat boutiques, resorts, garden centers, birding stores, golf shops, dermatology clinics, and women's boutiques; and retailers in North America, the United Kingdom, and internationally. It offers its products online; and through its family-owned stores in Toronto, Mississauga, Montreal, Brossard, Victoria, and Vancouver through catalogue retail. Tilley Endurables, Inc. was formerly known as Alex Tilley and Family's Nautical Gear. The company was incorporated in 1980 and is based in Toronto, Canada. Tilley Endurables, Inc. was a former subsidiary of Alex Tilley Enterprises, Inc.