Highline BETA

Highline BETA is a startup co-creation company and venture capital investment firm based in Toronto, Canada, with additional offices in Montreal, New York, Vancouver, and Chicago. Founded in 2016, the firm collaborates with corporations and entrepreneurs to identify industry opportunities and launch new ventures. Highline BETA engages in startup co-creation by co-investing in new startups and running corporate accelerator programs. The firm focuses its investments across various sectors, including insurance, health, fintech, retail, consumer packaged goods, food tech, media, and entertainment.

Erik Garbin

Head of Venture Strategy

Paige Halam-Andres

Managing Director, Innovation

Lauren Robinson

Co-Founder and General Partner

Benjamin Yoskovitz

Founding Partner and Board Member

Ben Yoskovitz

CPO and Founding Partner

22 past transactions

Carbonhound

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Developer of carbon management platform designed to help SMEs transition to the low-carbon economy. The company's software platform helps businesses manage their footprint without any expertise; making it easy to identify, reduce, and finance climate action using leading science-based standards, enabling small and medium businesses to measure and reduce their climate impact.

ChargeLab

Series A in 2022
ChargeLab Inc. is a Toronto-based company that specializes in developing a hardware-agnostic electronic vehicle charging management platform. Founded in 2015, ChargeLab does not manufacture EV chargers; instead, it offers software solutions that enhance the functionality of existing chargers, making them smarter and more user-friendly. The company's platform connects, manages, and monetizes charging stations, catering to a diverse clientele that includes government entities, multinational real estate investment trusts, parking operators, and property managers. By integrating its technology with various charging hardware, ChargeLab aims to streamline the electric vehicle charging experience for users and operators alike.

Requity

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Operator of a technology-enabled real estate platform intended to help turn renters into homeowners through a modernized rent-to-own program. The company's platform offers alternative paths for homeownership by paying for land transfer taxes, lawyer fees, and other closing costs at the time of home purchase, enabling homeowners to save money monthly for the down payment and later buy back the home with savings.

Relay Platform

Seed Round in 2021
Relay Platform Inc. develops online Software-as-a-Service solution that helps ceding teams, insurance underwriters and brokers to structure and secure reinsurance and large insurance placements simpler and faster. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

ChargeLab

Seed Round in 2021
ChargeLab Inc. is a Toronto-based company that specializes in developing a hardware-agnostic electronic vehicle charging management platform. Founded in 2015, ChargeLab does not manufacture EV chargers; instead, it offers software solutions that enhance the functionality of existing chargers, making them smarter and more user-friendly. The company's platform connects, manages, and monetizes charging stations, catering to a diverse clientele that includes government entities, multinational real estate investment trusts, parking operators, and property managers. By integrating its technology with various charging hardware, ChargeLab aims to streamline the electric vehicle charging experience for users and operators alike.

Aifred Health

Seed Round in 2020
Aifred Health Inc. develops and offers deep-learning based clinical decision tool for physicians to enable personalized medicine to psychiatry. The company's application software offers treatment prediction, interpretability, patient data tracking, and electronic patient record. Aifred Health Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Walnut Insurance

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Developer of insurance platform designed for partners to unlock the insurance opportunity under their brand in 30 days or less. The company offers insurance purchasing experiences digital-first, simple, and convenient creating greater accessibility across life, P&C, and embedded product lines, enabling customers to get insured in minutes.

Sparcblock

Seed Round in 2020
Sparcblock is a streamlined B2B transaction, reducing data entry and paperwork and eliminating reconciliation that helps small businesses reduce processing time, increase efficiency, and save money through invoicing, approval, posting, and payment.

Emma

Seed Round in 2020
Emma combines innovative technologies and insurance expertise to simplify and accelerate the life insurance purchase process.

Dryrun

Venture Round in 2020
Dryrun is a cash flow management software founded in 2012 and headquartered in Edmonton, Canada. It specializes in financial forecasting, enabling businesses to create and analyze various financial scenarios. The platform is designed for companies with annual revenues ranging from $1 million to $100 million, particularly those facing volatile cash flow. Dryrun provides automated forecasts combined with comprehensive modeling capabilities, making it a preferred choice for CFOs and financial professionals focused on short-term operational cash flow planning. Additionally, it allows users to export and share forecasting reports, visualize the impact of upcoming projects on sales, and effectively track customer needs.

Rivvi

Seed Round in 2020
Rivvi is a fintech with an autonomous payroll platform that enables businesses to automate their payroll processes so they can pay their employees faster. By improving operational throughput, businesses can directly impact their bottom line while simultaneously helping employees improve their financial health.

Otis AI

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Otis AI makes data-driven digital marketing simple and accessible for SMBs that want to compete and grow in the digital age. Otis AI applies artificial intelligence to SMBs data sets to help them acquire and retain their most valuable customers via a one-click ad management platform. The Otis app is the perfect tool for builders, creators, makers, small businesses to market themselves, at scale and with ease.

Homewise

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Homewise is a modern mortgage provider that uses technology to improve the consumer process. It is simple, transparent and sets the goal of getting our users the best mortgage. We take the guesswork out of the home buyer process with a simple online application, that uses human language. Further, we do the work for our users, by negotiating their deal with multiple lenders on their behalf to find them a great mortgage. Saving them time and most importantly money.

Paper & Coin

Seed Round in 2020
Paper & Coin aims to transform the way young adults think about and handle their money through financial coaching, courses, and content that helps Millennials eliminate debt, build wealth, and live the life of their dreams.

BanQu

Series A in 2020
BanQu, Inc. operates a blockchain-based economic identity technology platform designed to create economic opportunities for individuals living in extreme poverty and refugees worldwide. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with additional locations in Austin and Miami, BanQu provides a secure platform that combines biometric data, such as selfies and iris scans, to establish an immutable economic identity for those lacking access to traditional banking services. This identity can be enhanced with vital information like land rights, voter registration, and health records. The company focuses on addressing critical issues such as the refugee crisis, facilitating food and medical distribution in conflict zones, and enhancing revenue streams for social enterprises through diaspora capital participation. BanQu has formed a strategic partnership with RippleNami to further its mission.

ChargeLab

Seed Round in 2020
ChargeLab Inc. is a Toronto-based company that specializes in developing a hardware-agnostic electronic vehicle charging management platform. Founded in 2015, ChargeLab does not manufacture EV chargers; instead, it offers software solutions that enhance the functionality of existing chargers, making them smarter and more user-friendly. The company's platform connects, manages, and monetizes charging stations, catering to a diverse clientele that includes government entities, multinational real estate investment trusts, parking operators, and property managers. By integrating its technology with various charging hardware, ChargeLab aims to streamline the electric vehicle charging experience for users and operators alike.

Relay Platform

Seed Round in 2020
Relay Platform Inc. develops online Software-as-a-Service solution that helps ceding teams, insurance underwriters and brokers to structure and secure reinsurance and large insurance placements simpler and faster. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Moselle

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Developer of a trade financing platform intended to give every merchant the ability to streamline and automate their inventory replenishment and allocation. The company's platform offers easy-to-use trade financing and currency exchange services and also gives insights on the true cost of each shipment with financial literacy and accessibility, and is an artificial intelligence-powered orchestration solution, enabling small-medium businesses to track their imports from purchase through delivery accurately.

Drop

Series B in 2019
Drop Technologies Inc. operates a mobile-based loyalty platform that enables users to earn reward points on various brands through their debit and credit card purchases. Users can link their cards to the application, allowing them to accumulate points that can be redeemed for experiences, dining, and shopping. The platform caters to brick-and-mortar retailers, online retailers, and subscription services, enhancing the shopping experience by offering personalized rewards based on spending habits. The mobile application is accessible on both iOS and Android devices. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Drop Technologies Inc. was previously known as Drop Loyalty Inc. before rebranding in January 2018.

Andela

Series D in 2019
Andela is a global talent network that specializes in recruiting and managing software developers from emerging markets, particularly in Africa. Established in 2014 and headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, the company provides training and mentorship to prepare developers for roles with companies worldwide. Through its platform, Andela connects leading organizations like GitHub and Cloudflare with highly skilled engineering talent, enabling businesses to scale their teams efficiently and cost-effectively. The company focuses on identifying the top 1% of software developers, fostering a network that empowers developers while facilitating job opportunities. Andela operates as a distributed organization across four continents and has garnered support from notable investors, including Generation Investment Management and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

Female Funders

Acquisition in 2017
Female Funders Inc. is a Toronto-based company that empowers women to engage in angel investing through its online portal, established in 2015. The platform offers educational services and resources designed to equip aspiring female investors with the necessary tools to make their first investments. By fostering a supportive community, Female Funders aims to enhance financial independence among women, recognizing their potential as future angel investors who can support emerging entrepreneurs. Through accessible courses and resources, the company not only facilitates the investment journey for women but also encourages them to raise capital for their own ventures.

MedStack

Angel Round in 2017
For developers of healthcare applications in startups, enterprises and agencies, MedStack provides industry-specific data APIs and automated cloud hosting designed to achieve privacy compliance, healthcare security and data interoperability with Electronic Health Record systems out of the box. Built from the ground-up on proven high security standards and for flexibility across a wide range of application, database and deployment stacks, MedStack is the most secure, flexible and capable healthcare app hosting platform in the industry, now powering a wide range of applications from chronic disease management, healthcare workflow, monitoring and billing, leveraging AI, mobile, blockchain and VR/AR.
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