Information Venture Partners

Information Venture Partners is a Toronto-based early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on North American enterprise and financial technology companies. Founded in 2001 as RBC Venture Partners and rebranded in 2014, the firm leverages over two decades of experience with global financial institutions to identify and nurture disruptive opportunities in the SaaS landscape and beyond. Information Venture Partners emphasizes a collaborative approach, often acting as the first institutional investor in its portfolio companies while seeking quality co-investors who share a commitment to mutual success. The firm prioritizes supporting entrepreneurs with innovative visions to tackle significant challenges, offering access to a broad network of advisors and proprietary tools. While they provide guidance and resources, they ensure that the management of portfolio companies remains in the hands of the entrepreneurs and their leadership teams.

Rob Antoniades

General Partner and Co-Founder

Peter Carrescia

Venture Partner

Tony S. Cestra

Investment Manager

Sara Defina

Vice President, Finance

Kerri Golden

Venture Partner

Aman Nabi

Associate

Jane Podbelskaya

Principal

Dave Unsworth

General Partner and Co-Founder

29 past transactions

Helcim Inc.

Series A in 2022
Helcim Inc. launched in 2006 as a payment processor and evolved into a financial technology company that empowers businesses. As of fall 2017, Helcim serves more than 6,000 businesses in the US and Canada, and annually processes $2.5 billion in payments from over 15 million transactions.

Coconut Software

Series B in 2021
Coconut Software is a provider of a cloud-based appointment scheduling and visitor management platform tailored for enterprise use. The platform enables businesses to streamline customer appointments and facilitate online bookings, offering features such as text and email reminders, queue management, and performance reporting. It supports self-service booking, curbside pickup, and wait time tracking, enhancing the customer experience while alleviating pressure on staff. Additionally, Coconut Software integrates with contact centers and provides solutions for virtual meetings, making it particularly beneficial for banks and credit unions. By delivering real-time traffic insights, the platform helps organizations reduce customer wait times and improve operational efficiency.

Strike Graph

Series A in 2021
Strike Graph, Inc. is a Seattle-based company that provides a compliance Security-as-a-Service solution, focusing on simplifying the process of security audits and certifications such as SOC 2 Type I and II. Founded in 2020, Strike Graph offers a Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) platform that allows organizations to efficiently manage their security programs, compliance controls, policies, and necessary documentation. The platform automates evidence collection for auditor review through integrations with common business systems and infrastructure, facilitating a streamlined audit process. By enabling collaboration among key stakeholders, including Risk Managers, CTOs, CISOs, and Auditors, Strike Graph helps businesses implement a risk-driven security framework that can significantly enhance revenue opportunities for B2B companies.

Empyrean Solutions

Venture Round in 2021
Fast and accurate results drive their efforts at Empyrean. Their system was designed and developed by Finance and Risk practitioners with years of experience in the industry, built with ease of use and speed of calculations as primary considerations for its model. It is the fastest growing solution in the market today. For these reasons and more, banks of all sizes turn to us for finance and financial risk management products that help them increase efficiency, reduce operational costs, and more easily manage financial performance. Their customers love working with Empyrean solutions. And more importantly, they are happy to tell you why.

Arteria AI

Series A in 2021
Arteria AI applies artificial intelligence to the drafting, negotiation, and analysis of contracts.

Jirav

Series A in 2020
Jirav provides an FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis) as a Service utilizing a dynamic toolset that connects model and operational data resulting in the ability to Plan and Report on Revenue, Headcount, and Expenses quickly & accurately. They provide extremely powerful financial analysis, reporting, and forecasting capabilities to users' fingertips, with the ability to launch a full financial planning & analysis function at most companies in a matter of hours/days.

ThoughtExchange

Series B in 2020
ThoughtExchange is a developer of enterprise crowdsourcing software that facilitates strategic discussions among stakeholders, whether in small groups or large communities. The platform allows leaders to pose open-ended questions and gather real-time responses, ensuring that all voices are heard, not just the most vocal. By leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning, ThoughtExchange organizes insights and provides dynamic, data-rich reports that highlight results based on priority and urgency. This approach enables clients to analyze interactions among participants and make well-informed decisions. Founded in Rossland, British Columbia, the company operates with teams distributed across North America.

Cinchy

Series A in 2020
Cinchy Inc. is a technology company based in Toronto, Canada, that specializes in a data collaboration platform utilizing data fabric technology. Founded in 2014, Cinchy's platform connects various data sources within a unified networked architecture, allowing organizations to manage and protect their data more effectively. This innovative approach enables real-time collaboration among multiple systems and users without the need for separate application databases. By facilitating a cross-application data network, Cinchy enhances data accessibility while improving security for both customer and employee information. The platform has been recognized for its capabilities, having received accolades such as best-of-show at Finovate and being featured in Gartner's "Cool Vendors in Data Management." Through its unique architecture, Cinchy aims to eliminate data fragmentation, reduce costs, and streamline operations for enterprises.

ThoughtExchange

Series B in 2019
ThoughtExchange is a developer of enterprise crowdsourcing software that facilitates strategic discussions among stakeholders, whether in small groups or large communities. The platform allows leaders to pose open-ended questions and gather real-time responses, ensuring that all voices are heard, not just the most vocal. By leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning, ThoughtExchange organizes insights and provides dynamic, data-rich reports that highlight results based on priority and urgency. This approach enables clients to analyze interactions among participants and make well-informed decisions. Founded in Rossland, British Columbia, the company operates with teams distributed across North America.

Coconut Software

Series A in 2019
Coconut Software is a provider of a cloud-based appointment scheduling and visitor management platform tailored for enterprise use. The platform enables businesses to streamline customer appointments and facilitate online bookings, offering features such as text and email reminders, queue management, and performance reporting. It supports self-service booking, curbside pickup, and wait time tracking, enhancing the customer experience while alleviating pressure on staff. Additionally, Coconut Software integrates with contact centers and provides solutions for virtual meetings, making it particularly beneficial for banks and credit unions. By delivering real-time traffic insights, the platform helps organizations reduce customer wait times and improve operational efficiency.

Verafin

Private Equity Round in 2019
Verafin Inc. is a provider of cloud-based software solutions focused on fraud detection and anti-money laundering for financial institutions in North America. The company's flagship platform offers a comprehensive range of tools that enable banks and credit unions to identify potential money laundering or terrorist financing activities through advanced analytics and monitoring of customer transactions. With its capabilities in big data intelligence, visual storytelling, and collaborative investigations, Verafin helps institutions reduce false positive alerts and streamline compliance with regulations. The software also includes features for managing high-risk customers, vendor relationships, and reporting suspicious activities. Verafin is utilized by over 2,600 financial institutions and has established partnerships with various banking associations across the United States. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Saint John's, Canada, Verafin continues to support financial institutions in their efforts to combat financial crime.

BigID

Series C in 2019
BigID, Inc. is a software company focused on personal data protection and privacy compliance. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Tel Aviv and London, BigID offers a platform that employs advanced machine learning and identity intelligence to help organizations protect and manage customer data. The company's solutions enable enterprises to discover and inventory personal information across diverse data types, automate access rights fulfillment, map data flows, and comply with privacy regulations such as the GDPR and CCPA. By providing tools for data minimization, consent management, and risk assessment, BigID aims to enhance data privacy practices and reduce breach risks for businesses operating at scale.

Flybits

Series C in 2019
Flybits is the leading customer experience platform for the financial services sector, delivering personalization at scale. With the most advanced capabilities in the market, its enterprise-level solution brings relevant content, products, offers, and information to a bank’s digital channels based on what each individual customer needs in the moments that matter. With Flybits, banks are able to design, launch, and measure data-driven consumer experiences that deliver the right information to the right customer at the right time, while preserving their privacy. www.flybits.com

Sensibill

Series B in 2019
Sensibill Inc., founded in 2012 and based in Toronto, Canada, operates a cloud-based application that enables users to access digital receipts directly from their bank accounts. The company offers a comprehensive digital receipts ecosystem, providing financial institutions with a turnkey solution to help retail customers manage itemized receipts through trusted banking applications. Sensibill's platform emphasizes a user-friendly interface, enhancing customer engagement and fostering loyalty among users. By integrating technology with design, Sensibill transforms the way customers interact with their financial services, turning them into advocates for the banking applications they utilize.

Procurify

Series B in 2019
Procurify is a cloud-based procurement software solution that gives you control and visibility. Their main goal is to help your company generate cost savings. It's done by providing a platform to streamline purchases, give optimized spending, and increase visibility throughout the entire procure-to-pay process.

LendingFront

Series A in 2019
LendingFront, Inc. is a cloud-based lending platform tailored for banks and financial institutions, headquartered in New York City. The company provides a comprehensive, white-label software solution that encompasses all facets of the small business lending process. Its offerings include application management, underwriting, loan lifecycle monitoring, and customer information systems. LendingFront enables clients to automate various aspects of lending while allowing for manual oversight as needed. The platform is designed to accommodate a diverse clientele, from rapidly expanding online credit providers to large financial institutions. The founding team comprises experienced professionals from notable organizations in the lending technology sector.

YayPay

Series A in 2018
YayPay Inc. develops a cloud-based accounts receivable management software that automates payment workflows for finance, credit, and collections teams. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, the company offers a range of solutions including dashboards for automated collections, payment predictions, and payer trends, as well as integration with popular platforms like Oracle NetSuite, Sage Intacct, Acumatica, QuickBooks, and Salesforce. YayPay's software utilizes data science and machine learning to improve the credit to cash process, facilitating credit assessments, invoicing, collections management, online payment processing, and cash application. The company targets mid-market and enterprise customers across various sectors, including manufacturing, wholesale, software, and consulting. As a subsidiary of Quadient S.A., YayPay has additional offices in Kyiv, Ukraine, and London, United Kingdom.

Lydia.ai

Series A in 2018
Knowtions Research Inc. is an applied artificial intelligence company based in Toronto, Canada, focused on transforming health data into actionable insights. Its flagship product, the Lydia AI platform, is designed specifically for health insurers, allowing them to analyze and utilize complex medical data to enhance operational efficiency. By leveraging predictive analytics, Lydia enables insurers to automate claims processing and tailor customer experiences. Founded in 2015, Knowtions Research aims to make global health data more accessible and useful, driven by support from notable investors such as Alibaba Entrepreneur’s Fund and Information Venture Partners.

Q4

Series C in 2018
Q4 Inc. specializes in providing cloud-based investor relations and capital market solutions to clients in Canada and globally. The company offers an integrated platform that includes Q4 Desktop, which equips investor relations officers with essential tools and insights for effective decision-making and communication with investors. Q4 designs and develops corporate websites and online reports, facilitating dynamic corporate storytelling. Its services encompass media access through a news platform, audio and video webcasting, and comprehensive analytics that track institutional trading activities and market trends. Q4 also delivers insights into website performance and user behavior, alongside support services such as client success management and a dedicated IPO subsidy program. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Toronto, Q4 operates additional offices in New York and Chicago, with a subsidiary in Copenhagen, serving over 2,200 prominent brands worldwide.

BigID

Series B in 2018
BigID, Inc. is a software company focused on personal data protection and privacy compliance. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Tel Aviv and London, BigID offers a platform that employs advanced machine learning and identity intelligence to help organizations protect and manage customer data. The company's solutions enable enterprises to discover and inventory personal information across diverse data types, automate access rights fulfillment, map data flows, and comply with privacy regulations such as the GDPR and CCPA. By providing tools for data minimization, consent management, and risk assessment, BigID aims to enhance data privacy practices and reduce breach risks for businesses operating at scale.

Coconut Software

Series A in 2017
Coconut Software is a provider of a cloud-based appointment scheduling and visitor management platform tailored for enterprise use. The platform enables businesses to streamline customer appointments and facilitate online bookings, offering features such as text and email reminders, queue management, and performance reporting. It supports self-service booking, curbside pickup, and wait time tracking, enhancing the customer experience while alleviating pressure on staff. Additionally, Coconut Software integrates with contact centers and provides solutions for virtual meetings, making it particularly beneficial for banks and credit unions. By delivering real-time traffic insights, the platform helps organizations reduce customer wait times and improve operational efficiency.

Flybits

Series B in 2017
Flybits is the leading customer experience platform for the financial services sector, delivering personalization at scale. With the most advanced capabilities in the market, its enterprise-level solution brings relevant content, products, offers, and information to a bank’s digital channels based on what each individual customer needs in the moments that matter. With Flybits, banks are able to design, launch, and measure data-driven consumer experiences that deliver the right information to the right customer at the right time, while preserving their privacy. www.flybits.com

Sensibill

Series A in 2017
Sensibill Inc., founded in 2012 and based in Toronto, Canada, operates a cloud-based application that enables users to access digital receipts directly from their bank accounts. The company offers a comprehensive digital receipts ecosystem, providing financial institutions with a turnkey solution to help retail customers manage itemized receipts through trusted banking applications. Sensibill's platform emphasizes a user-friendly interface, enhancing customer engagement and fostering loyalty among users. By integrating technology with design, Sensibill transforms the way customers interact with their financial services, turning them into advocates for the banking applications they utilize.

PostBeyond

Series A in 2016
PostBeyond Inc. provides a social media engagement and advocacy software that helps people to post approved content to their personal networks. It offers marketing solutions that amplifies brand by engaging workforce on social media; sales solutions, which activates social sales force to generate leads, deliver targeted content to prospects, improve ROI, streamline content strategy, and measure reach and engagement; and human resource solutions that educates and empowers a social workforce and grow employer brand. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Q4

Series B in 2016
Q4 Inc. specializes in providing cloud-based investor relations and capital market solutions to clients in Canada and globally. The company offers an integrated platform that includes Q4 Desktop, which equips investor relations officers with essential tools and insights for effective decision-making and communication with investors. Q4 designs and develops corporate websites and online reports, facilitating dynamic corporate storytelling. Its services encompass media access through a news platform, audio and video webcasting, and comprehensive analytics that track institutional trading activities and market trends. Q4 also delivers insights into website performance and user behavior, alongside support services such as client success management and a dedicated IPO subsidy program. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Toronto, Q4 operates additional offices in New York and Chicago, with a subsidiary in Copenhagen, serving over 2,200 prominent brands worldwide.

eSentire

Venture Round in 2016
eSentire specializes in providing advanced cybersecurity solutions designed to protect enterprises from sophisticated cyber threats. The company focuses on managed detection and response services that emphasize internal security, assuming that networks may already be compromised. By leveraging a combination of human expertise and machine learning, eSentire identifies behaviors indicative of advanced threats from various sources, including cybercriminals and insider risks. Their offerings include managed risk programs, digital forensics, and incident response services tailored to the specific risk profiles of clients in sectors such as insurance, engineering, healthcare, and government. This approach enables organizations to secure both internal and cloud environments effectively, mitigating the risk of cyber incidents and ensuring business continuity.

Adaptive Insights

Series G in 2015
Adaptive Insights, Inc. specializes in integrated cloud-based corporate performance management (CPM) and business intelligence (BI) solutions. The company offers a suite of products designed to enhance business planning and financial consolidation, including Adaptive Suite, Adaptive Planning, and Adaptive Consolidation. These tools facilitate intuitive planning, forecasting, reporting, and dashboards that enable organizations to streamline their financial processes. Additionally, Adaptive Insights provides solutions for workforce and expense management, capital management, and profitability analysis, among others. The company is recognized for its user-friendly interface and has received high customer satisfaction ratings in industry surveys. Serving a diverse range of sectors, including healthcare, retail, financial services, and manufacturing, Adaptive Insights empowers organizations to make informed decisions and improve their business agility. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the company operates as a subsidiary of Workday, Inc.

IGLOO Inc.

Series A in 2008
Igloo is a leading provider of digital workplace solutions, helping companies move beyond traditional intranets to inspiring digital destinations that improve communication, knowledge sharing, collaboration, and culture. All Igloo solutions are 100% cloud-based, mobile-enabled, and integrate with the leading enterprise systems and cloud apps your business relies on. By centralizing all information, Igloo provides a single-source-of-truth and enables a more productive and engaged workforce.
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