Globalive Capital

Globalive Capital Inc. is a Toronto-based venture capital and private equity firm founded in 1998. It focuses on investments in startups, particularly in the technology and infrastructure sectors, and typically engages in seed, pre-seed, and Series A funding rounds. The firm aims to invest between $1 million and $5 million in companies located in the United States, Canada, and globally. Globalive Capital also operates as a startup studio, providing support and resources to emerging businesses across various industries, including HRtech, Realtech, Fintech, Healthtech, Biotech, and drone technology. The firm is led by experienced investment professionals, including Anthony Lacavera, Brice Scheschuk, and Simon Lockie, who collectively bring over a century of expertise in entrepreneurship and investment.

Florence Au

Managing Director

Mila Glisic

Managing Director

Brice Scheschuk

CEO

Past deals in Toronto

Curv Health

Seed Round in 2022
Curv Health is a multidisciplinary virtual clinic founded in 2017, with offices in Toronto and Halifax. It provides a health technology platform that enables healthcare providers to establish and manage their own digital practices. The platform facilitates a digital care network where patients can schedule both virtual and in-person appointments with a variety of allied healthcare professionals, including physiotherapists, dietitians, psychotherapists, and counselors. By focusing on mental performance coaching, Curv Health aims to enhance the accessibility of mental health services, particularly for young athletes, helping them address the mental challenges associated with sports and ultimately increasing the number of meaningful years lived globally.

Sherpa°

Venture Round in 2021
We're sherpa° and we’re passionate about freedom of movement. Our mission is to help travellers move freely around the world and to shift the way the world's leading travel providers approach border crossing. Through unmatched industry knowledge and expertise, we help our partners—from airlines to cruise lines to online travel agencies—open new ancillary revenue streams to help them reduce costs and operational risk while enhancing the customer journey and growing consumer confidence in travel. More than simply providing a product or service, we're moving travel forward. Away from stress and confusion, and towards ease and connection. So travellers can move freely wherever life takes them. This is the future of international travel.

Fable

Seed Round in 2020
Fable is a leading accessibility platform powered by people with disabilities.The best digital teams work with Fable to make products more accessible for over 1 billion people who live with disabilities.

Curv Health

Seed Round in 2019
Curv Health is a multidisciplinary virtual clinic founded in 2017, with offices in Toronto and Halifax. It provides a health technology platform that enables healthcare providers to establish and manage their own digital practices. The platform facilitates a digital care network where patients can schedule both virtual and in-person appointments with a variety of allied healthcare professionals, including physiotherapists, dietitians, psychotherapists, and counselors. By focusing on mental performance coaching, Curv Health aims to enhance the accessibility of mental health services, particularly for young athletes, helping them address the mental challenges associated with sports and ultimately increasing the number of meaningful years lived globally.

Tread

Seed Round in 2019
Tread, Inc. is a Toronto-based company founded in 2016 that specializes in developing a platform for managing construction equipment services. The platform facilitates interaction among contractors, brokers, and operators, simulating a unified fleet experience. By leveraging data analytics, Tread enables construction companies to hire equipment-operating subcontractors effectively. Its software provides real-time recording and measurement of equipment usage, allowing clients to identify opportunities for cost savings and optimize operational efficiency in construction projects.

PurPicks

Convertible Note in 2018
PurPicks, a user-generated reviews platform, is the portal for unvarnished truths about an unrivaled selection of non-toxic and organic beauty and skincare products.

EnergyX

Seed Round in 2018
EnergyX Solutions Inc. is a technology company based in Toronto, Canada, specializing in energy management and conservation. Established in 2016, the company has developed a cloud-based energy management software platform that facilitates energy efficiency programs for utilities and energy retailers. Their online platform, "MyEnergyXpert," automates the energy audit process and engages customers by providing personalized recommendations through artificial intelligence. The platform helps identify potential energy savings, enroll customers, and track their progress in real-time, allowing program managers to monitor customer journeys and receive insights for future program design. By implementing its digitized energy efficiency solutions, EnergyX aims to significantly reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, promoting customized energy savings for homes and businesses.

TouchBistro

Series D in 2018
TouchBistro, Inc. develops an iPad-based point of sale (POS) solution tailored for restaurants, cafes, bars, and food trucks. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York with an additional office in Toronto, the company offers various POS systems, including those specifically designed for food trucks, bars, and coffee shops. These systems enable efficient order management by allowing servers to take orders and submit them directly to the kitchen without returning to a terminal, thereby reducing errors and enhancing service speed. TouchBistro also provides features such as a reservation management platform, cloud reporting and analytics, and customer-facing displays, all aimed at improving the dining experience and operational efficiency. The software is available through the Apple App Store in the United States and internationally, making it accessible for a wide range of food and drink venues.

Statflo

Series A in 2018
Statflo Inc. is a technology company that specializes in a one-to-one business text messaging platform designed for customer-facing teams, primarily in the retail sector. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with an additional office in San Francisco, Statflo's platform utilizes data and analytics to enhance customer engagement and loyalty. By integrating with point-of-sale systems, it enables retailers to effectively communicate with past customers, helping to turn idle time into productive interactions. The platform offers features such as real-time dashboard reporting, monthly commissions data, NPS surveys via SMS, and secure data storage. Customers using Statflo have reported significant increases in sales, in-store appointments, and customer lifetime value within a short time frame.

Thriver

Series A in 2018
Thriver is a food and culture platform that enables workplace culture programs that engage employees. The platform also enables the company to create new workplace programs around wellness, education, and teambuilding, as well as double down on research and development, and marketing functions. They fuel workplaces with an enterprise platform that curates food and experiences, tracks related spending, and gathers valuable employee feedback. Thriver was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Tread

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Tread, Inc. is a Toronto-based company founded in 2016 that specializes in developing a platform for managing construction equipment services. The platform facilitates interaction among contractors, brokers, and operators, simulating a unified fleet experience. By leveraging data analytics, Tread enables construction companies to hire equipment-operating subcontractors effectively. Its software provides real-time recording and measurement of equipment usage, allowing clients to identify opportunities for cost savings and optimize operational efficiency in construction projects.

TimePlay

Series A in 2017
TimePlay Inc. is a technology media company that specializes in creating an interactive multi-player mobile application platform. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with an additional office in Los Angeles, the company operates its gaming facilities in cinemas, arenas, and various venues worldwide. TimePlay's platform enables users to interact with on-screen content in real time using their smartphones and tablets, fostering engaging social experiences. The company also produces interactive storytelling and synced media, delivering rewards and offers directly to users based on specific demographic profiles. By recording user interactions, TimePlay builds comprehensive consumer profiles that provide valuable insights into preferences and behaviors, enhancing the engagement capabilities for advertisers and studios.

Chisel.ai

Seed Round in 2017
Chisel.ai builds an AI solution for commercial insurance. Their software uses artificial intelligence to generate information from data sources, including automating errors and omissions policy checking, submission prioritization, quote comparison, and claims triage, enabling insurers, reinsurers, and brokers to utilize trapped knowledge and streamline operations easily.

RYSE

Convertible Note in 2017
RYSE creates devices to motorize and automate window coverings. The RYSE SmartShade automates existing window shades that has a beaded chain or cord loop. RYSE was awarded the Motorized Product of the Year by the Consumer Technology Association in 2017, RYSE is compatible with a variety of window shades and allows you to control and schedule your shades from the comfort of your phone.

Thriver

Seed Round in 2017
Thriver is a food and culture platform that enables workplace culture programs that engage employees. The platform also enables the company to create new workplace programs around wellness, education, and teambuilding, as well as double down on research and development, and marketing functions. They fuel workplaces with an enterprise platform that curates food and experiences, tracks related spending, and gathers valuable employee feedback. Thriver was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Tokyo Smoke

Series A in 2017
Tokyo Smoke is a modern lifestyle collective and a cultural movement. Our aim is to create an immersive physical experience, across verticals that touch our hearts, with the care, craft and expertise. Fundamentally, we believe Coffee, Clothing, and Cannabis are the lifeblood of the Creative Class. The Brand Tokyo Smoke is the touchstone for beauty, design, and quality in a society hungry for inclusive but sophisticated, designer brands. The combination of creativity, passion, and originality, has formed a sophisticated urban brand that goes beyond products. By integrating into the creative drivers of consumers, those being coffee, clothing and cannabis, Tokyo Smoke can help shape how today’s individual lives their life. This puts us in a unique position to interact with consumers within multiple touch points throughout their day. Specifically, this is what the verticals allow us to do: • Coffee: the shops function as a brand experience center to host our customers and the community • Clothing: provides a foundation to interact with our customers and ambassadors across the world and to establish the legitimacy and reach of the brand • Cannabis: brings beauty, form and function to an underserved consumer, with Tokyo Smoke as the first brand to provide an aspirational and inspirational lifestyle that transcends the Cannabis culture Currently, there are two coffee bars / luxury Cannabis accessory shops that function as experience centers. The line of luxury men’s clothing is available at GotStyle, in the coffee shop as well as other select retailers. The line of Tokyo Smoke Cannabis is soon to be on shelf in Washington State with a first of its kind deal about to be signed in Canada.

Flexiti

Series A in 2016
Flexiti is a Canadian fintech company. our vision is to help our partners in the retail, health, and home improvement sectors offer flexible sales financing solutions and enable them to sell more, develop and grow while helping consumers enjoy the things they need and want sooner.

Zoocasa

Seed Round in 2016
Zoocasa, Inc. operates Zoocasa.com, an online platform designed to assist individuals in finding residential properties in Canada. The website integrates listing information with mapping technology, allowing users to personalize their property search by criteria such as region, city, price range, and the number of bedrooms and bathrooms. It aggregates listings from various sources, including direct feeds from real estate agents and brokers, and provides essential community, demographic, and lifestyle information to aid in decision-making. Founded in 2008 and based in Toronto, Zoocasa aims to enhance the home buying and selling experience for Canadians by leveraging technology to facilitate informed real estate decisions. The company functions as a subsidiary of Rogers Communications Inc.

Kira Talent

Series A in 2016
Kira Talent is the world’s only holistic admissions solution designed for higher education. Founded in 2012, Kira transforms the admissions process by combining on-demand, timed video and timed written assessments with existing admissions requirements. Kira works with more than 300 programs worldwide to build applicant-first assessments that identify and select their best-fit students.

Kepler

Seed Round in 2016
Kepler Communications is a satellite communications company that is working towards establishing an in-space telecommunications network for space-borne assets. Put simply, we are building cell phone towers in space. This infrastructure will resolve the problem of intermittent connectivity for non-geostationary satellites, will open new business opportunities that necessitate real-time connectivity to satellites, and will reduce reliance on costly and difficult to deploy ground infrastructure. The company is currently developing technologies and delivering services that solved terrestrial connectivity needs, offering terrestrial wideband and soon-to-be narrowband connectivity services for IoT applications. With Kepler's first service, named Global Data ServiceTM, they have been able to pack more Mbps into a nanosatellite than anybody else ever before. This wideband service delivers a store-and-forward type of solution for companies needing to move large quantities of delay-tolerant data from regions where connectivity is limited or non-existent. It is designed to transfer 100s of GBs of data monthly between remote locations and company headquarters or the internet. This service is available today for trials. Kepler is also developing a satellite service for Internet of Things devices – called everywhereIoTTM. A low-power, low-cost, bi-directional narrowband satellite service that will allow to connect assets all around the globe (at sea, land and even in the poles). With two satellites already in orbit, and a third scheduled for launch later in 2019, the company is currently preparing the deployment of its first LEO constellation for 2020.
Aspire Financial Technologies offers a web-based platform that connects marketplace and alternative lenders with institutional investors. The company also offers a database that houses information on a range of generalist and specialist credit and fixed income investors based in the US or Canada.

PitchPoint Solutions

Venture Round in 2014
PitchPoint Solutions Inc. specializes in developing and deploying web-based automation solutions tailored for the financial services sector, particularly in fraud prevention and data validation. The company offers an on-demand platform, Promptu, which streamlines data entry and report management for loan processing, allowing clients to validate key data from diverse databases. Its services include a range of data validation solutions such as borrower ID verification, risk assessment reports for identity, property, and income, as well as ongoing vendor monitoring. Additionally, PitchPoint provides an Application Data Validation Package that alerts clients to potential risks associated with loan data. The ID Red Flag service helps identify discrepancies in credit bureau reports, while Expert Services offers mortgage data validation and compliance support. Based in Toronto, Canada, PitchPoint Solutions aims to help lenders reduce operational effort, ensure compliance with regulations, and minimize fraud risk through comprehensive and objective data reviews.
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