Good News Ventures

At Good News Ventures, we invest in early stage technology companies founded by true grit entrepreneurs. We back passionate and determined founders as they develop their impressive ideas into prominent businesses. We admire those who embrace the risk and uncertainty and aren’t afraid to break with convention. We invest in all sectors including AI, IoT, big data, B2B, cloud/SaaS, mobile, marketplaces, finance, healthcare, applications, infrastructure, networking, security, space technology, storage. Our partners provide significant value in strategic advice and networking. We have put together exceptional roster of advisors who have various background and can help entrepreneurs take ideas from a concept to a business through mentorships and guidance. We focus on providing exceptional value for the founders and remarkable returns for investors. We evaluate risk vs rewards and ensure potential returns are in line with our investment philosophy. The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark—Michelangelo

Flux, Michael

Investment Partner

Rudy Joss

Investment Partner

Mona Kung

Partner

Markandaier, Mohan

Founding Partner

Mukhamedyarov, Marat

Founding Partner

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Impro

Seed Round in 2022
Impro is a technology platform that enables action-based coaching at scale.

Voltpost

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Voltpost transforms lampposts into smart electric vehicle charging stations to make them accessible to people. The company converts lampposts into a modular and upgradable Level 2 EV charging platform controlled via a mobile app. This platform offers convenient and affordable charging while reducing the cost, time, and footprint associated with traditional chargers.

Talent Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
Talent Protocol is the web3 professional network where high-potential individuals can build an on-chain resume and launch a talent token, allowing anyone to easily invest in their careers. Our mission is to help the next generation of talent achieve success and fulfilment by enabling collective careers. Until now careers have mostly been a single-player game where only a privileged few can win. With web3, careers are becoming multiplayer journeys where early support is rewarded and success is shared.

Dashlabs.ai

Seed Round in 2021
Dashlabs.ai accelerates access to healthcare by providing DIY lab software that automates tests and simplifies lab management processes.

Hudson Labs

Seed Round in 2021
Hudson Labs is software that extracts hard-to-find information in a public company filing like annual reports.

Stayflexi

Seed Round in 2021
Stayflexi helps hotels and vacation rentals automate operations and maximize revenues on unsold rooms and amenities.

Dashlabs.ai

Seed Round in 2021
Dashlabs.ai accelerates access to healthcare by providing DIY lab software that automates tests and simplifies lab management processes.

Coinchange

Seed Round in 2021
Coinchange is a Canadian fintech company founded in 2018 with the mission to enable access to a fair, innovative, and inclusive financial future for all. Coinchange provides cutting-edge products and services to businesses, individuals, and institutions looking to unlock the full potential of digital assets. A user-friendly platform and innovative solutions allow financial advisers, crypto hedge funds, and high net worth clients to automate earnings, invest in institutional crypto funds, trade seamlessly, and access yield as a service. Coinchange prioritizes security, compliance, and risk-mitigation, working with industry leaders, to earn and maintain the trust and assets of its clients. With Coinchange it's easy to automate earnings, invest in institutional crypto funds, and earn with confidence regardless of the market conditions due to their risk-managed yield strategies that provide a consistent return on investments. Join today and yield the impossible with Coinchange.

Quantum bridge technologies QBT

Pre Seed Round in 2021
QBT is building the next generation of the internet by overlaying their proprietary software and quantum repeater hardware in order to allow quantum communication between any two parties around the globe.

Mystic

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Mystic is a provider of infrastructure-as-a-service for data engineers and software developers. It also provides tools and models that enable its customers to deliver robust, dynamic machine learning in an agile manner. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications. Mystic aims to provide data scientists and ML organizations with the engineering tools they need to build end-to-end products faster, with the goal of demystifying how to build scalable ML products.

Datafold

Seed Round in 2020
Datafold builds tools for automating analytical data quality management. It helps companies extract more value from their analytical data by automating Data Engineering workflows like data quality monitoring. It also simplifies data QA by enabling instant table comparison and profiling.

webapp.io

Seed Round in 2020
Webapp.io is a Y Combinator-backed developer tools company that helps developers build next generation web applications. They’ve built an extremely performant custom hypervisor that makes webapp development 10x faster by automating repetitive code review steps.

Funnelytics

Seed Round in 2020
Funnelytics is a customer journey mapping and analytics tool

Funnelytics

Seed Round in 2020
Funnelytics is a customer journey mapping and analytics tool

Cuboh

Seed Round in 2020
Cuboh is a developer of an application intended to automate online food orders for restaurants. The company's platform helps to use several delivery platforms like Doordash, Postmates, UberEats and more by bringing them all to one system and integrating it with POS systems, enabling restaurants to manage all online orders on just one easy-to-use interface, easily add new apps and expand to new markets.

Battlesnake

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Battlesnake is a platform that allows people who wanted to know and try programming in a fun way. Battlesnake is used to learn new technologies, improve their skills, and have fun with friends and colleagues.

Rallynow

Venture Round in 2019
Rally is a web app where users can manage their contracts and company’s legal documents in a frictionless manner and entirely on the cloud. Rally gives its users an extensive library of contract and corporate templates and provides an innovative customization process that makes generating documents easier than ever. On Rally you create, customize, and collaborate with your team on documents, as well as negotiate your deals with counterparties before e-signing them and storing them in an active repository that tracks important actions and obligations from both parties.

Spellbook

Equity Crowdfunding in 2019
Spellbook is a legal software startup that develops a generative artificial intelligence contract drafting tool for lawyers. The technology, which is powered by huge language models such as OpenAI's GPT-4, is optimized for contracting performance utilizing legal datasets.

DarwinAI

Convertible Note in 2019
DarwinAI’s Generative Synthesis 'AI building AI' technology enables optimized and explainable deep learning. Based on distinguished scholarship by an award-winning team led by a Canada Research Chair in A.I., DarwinAI takes the guesswork out of building better A.I. The company is providing manufacturers with an end-to-end solution to improve product quality and increase production efficiency.

ClaimCompass

Seed Round in 2019
ClaimCompass is a legal services company that helps airline passengers receive their deserved compensation for delayed, canceled, or overbooked flights.

Stay22

Seed Round in 2019
Over half the total spend on hotels and short-term rentals – $295B each year – comes from event accommodations for conferences, concerts, festivals, and sporting events. This is an incredibly underserved market. Event organizers typically view attendee accommodations as a non-revenue-producing activity and spend countless hours reserving blocks of rooms for $0 in return. Stay22 turns this into a HUGE new source of revenue for the event organizers who partner with us

Doorr

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Doorr provides a mortgage platform for brokers and financial institutions. Through an entirely digital experience, its platform enables brokers and financial institutions to connect and collaborate with their clients on pre-approvals, refinances, and purchases. The platform was created to simplify and provide consumers with visibility into the mortgage application and approval process.

Envoi

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Same day delivery. Returns. Exchanges. Envoi is a one-stop, national last mile partner that gives enterprise retailers end-to-end visibility, a consistent quality of service, and ensures their omnichannel investments don’t go to waste.

iRestify

Seed Round in 2018
iRestify is an enterprise-level facilities management platform that empowers property managers to run their operations more productively while elevating the experience of their tenants.

Lending Loop

Seed Round in 2018
Lending Loop is Canada's first peer-to-peer lending marketplace. Our core focus is providing businesses with accessible capital at fair interest rates through a simple online process. We do this by cutting out the costly intermediaries, such as banks, allowing Canadian businesses and lenders to prosper together. Lending Loop gives all Canadians access to simple and attractive returns by supporting the growth of local Canadian businesses.

#Paid

Convertible Note 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.

GoWrench Auto

Seed Round in 2018
GoWrench Auto provides mobile auto repair, tyre replacement, and maintenance services. They offer mobile tyre swaps, fleet services, diagnostics, shop rims, and inspections. They also provide windscreen wiper linkage replacement, window inspection, rustproofing, and windscreen washer tube replacement services.

Hockeystick

Venture Round in 2018
Hockeystick operates an online financial data platform that connects startups with potential funders. Its cloud-based system automates data collection and reporting, providing private equity funds, venture capitalists, lenders, and companies with comprehensive reports and analytics. This enables users to monitor their portfolios effectively and drive growth. By enhancing transparency and communication, Hockeystick ensures that investors are well-informed about the businesses they support, allowing them to engage more actively, whether through strategic advice or facilitating future financing rounds.

CalendarHero

Seed Round in 2018
CalendarHero develops a digital assistant application designed to minimize the distractions at work from operational tasks. The company's digital assistant application is an automated virtual assistant that streamline office works including meeting scheduling, workload management, arranging contact list, setting reminders and storing background information, enabling enterprise managers to improve productivity at work.

KitchenMate

Convertible Note in 2017
KitchenMate provides premium food vending and micro-market service to offices, commercial buildings, schools, and hospitals in Toronto.

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.

eleven-x

Seed Round in 2017
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.

FleetRover

Seed Round in 2017
FleetRover is a trucking company that specializes in the fields of delivery, GPS, and information technology. It features a mobile-based application platform that allows its users to track their fleets and delivery in real-time. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Ontario, Canada.

CalendarHero

Seed Round in 2017
CalendarHero develops a digital assistant application designed to minimize the distractions at work from operational tasks. The company's digital assistant application is an automated virtual assistant that streamline office works including meeting scheduling, workload management, arranging contact list, setting reminders and storing background information, enabling enterprise managers to improve productivity at work.

Brüha

Seed Round in 2017
Brüha is an online event marketplace. We provide event organizers various tools and services to help them manage their events and sell tickets. Event organizers list and sell event tickets directly through the Brüha platform. They have an opportunity to hire Promoters on Brüha, who are vetted individuals and groups that sell tickets for a commission on the sale.

Intelocate

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Intelocate is a powerful and collaborative way to plan, launch, communicate and connect all layers of multi-location businesses and projects.

Sampler

Seed Round in 2016
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.

HTBASE

Seed Round in 2016
HTBASE delivers a unique Composable IT infrastructure solution to medium and large enterprises with its software-defined platform. Their goal is to enable organizations to transform their operations and deliver technology solutions on an efficient way. Through innovative product and services, HTBASE accelerates the journey to cloud computing in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way.

FleetOps

Seed Round in 2016
FleetOps is a freight marketplace.It works by automating the allocation of loads to truck drivers that can deliver them. It does this by leveraging the data of telematics providers (ex. BigRoad.com) which provide thousands of data-points on vehicles, and by interacting with drivers through a mobile application which truck drivers are required to use called an ELD (read more here: http://bit.ly/2vqq4w7). This telematics data gives us information on: • Where trucks are • Where trucks are headed • What routes trucks typically use • When they’re handling a back-haul (return journey) • When trucks are idle, etc. • Driver behaviour • Available driving hours We run AI/ML algorithms against this and computationally determine which loads are most-appropriate for which drivers. When we make these determinations, we send drivers shipment opportunities
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