Information Venture Partners
Information Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in direct and fund of funds investments in the Fintech sector. In direct investments, the firm typically makes Series A and equity investments in seed and early stage private companies. The firm also invests in growth stage venture-backed companies. It primarily invests in companies specializing in technology for the financial services industry and financial services enabled by technology. Within software and services (SaaS), the firm invests in network infrastructure, fintech, enterprise software, information security, compliance and risk, technology management, collaboration and social networking, business intelligence, and business process management. Within financial services, it invests in electronic payments, commerce platforms, mass affluent investment and wealth management solutions, social networking, social lending including P2P lending, social investing, micro finance, micro lending, stored value and prepaid offerings, payment services, money transfer, remittance services, mobile payments, and products and services for the under-banked. The firm invests in companies based in North America with a focus on Canada and United States. It seeks to invest in fintech and enterprise software startups with at least CAD1 million ($0.74 million) in annual recurring revenue. It prefers to make initial investment between CAD2 million ($1.4 million) and CAD6 million ($4.4 million). The firm prefers to co-invest and seeks to have a board seat in its portfolio companies. In fund investments, it primarily invests in early stage venture capital funds. The firm invests in funds that invest in life sciences, medical devices, health services, information technology, advanced technology, agriculture sciences, and clean technologies. The firm is often the first institutional investors. It primarily invests in United States and Canada based funds and selectively in other geographies. Information Venture Partners was formerly known as RBC Venture Partners. Information Venture Partners was founded in 1997 and is based in Toronto, Canada.
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28 past transactions
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.
LendingFront
Series A in 2019
LendingFront, Inc. provides cloud based lending platform to banks and financial institutions. The company offers services, such as application management, data management, underwriting, automated lending process, loan life cycle monitoring, loan accounting system, and customer information system solutions. LendingFront, Inc. is based in New York, New York.
Flybits Inc.
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
Thoughtexchange
Series B in 2020
Whether you’re looking to engage ten stakeholders or a community of 10,000 people, ThoughtExchange allows leaders to drive strategic discussions at scale.
Unlike meetings, ThoughtExchange ensures you’re not just hearing from the loudest voices in the room. Unlike surveys, respondents feel more comfortable answering tough questions candidly. Unlike polls, leaders receive dynamic, data-rich reports that list results according to priority and urgency.
ThoughtExchange was founded in beautiful Rossland, British Columbia, but our teams enjoy working remotely from all over North America.
BigID, Inc.
Series C in 2019
BigID develops software that helps companies have secure customer data and satisfy privacy regulations. It uses advanced machine learning and identity intelligence to help enterprises better protect their customer and employee data at a petabyte-scale. The company helps organizations manage and protect their customer data, meet data privacy and protection regulations like the CCPA and GDPR, and leverage unmatched coverage for all data across all data stores.
BigID aims to give enterprises the software to safeguard and steward the customer data, by bringing data science to data privacy.
BigID has offices in the US and Israel and is founded in 2016 by security industry veterans spanning the identity, data security, big data, and governance markets.
eSentire
Venture Round in 2016
eSentire has reinvented enterprise network security by focusing on protecting your core assets inside the network through their human driven, behavior-based solution. They turn the traditional layered security approach on its ear as they assume your network is already compromised and focus from the inside out by detecting behaviors indicative of advanced threats from criminals, nation states or hactivists and even your own staff whether malicious or borne of ignorance.
They have simplified security by delivering an award-winning advanced service tailored to your risk profile. Their human expertise and machine learning approach protects high-risk assets from advanced cyber threats that technology alone can miss.
Strike Graph, Inc.
Series A in 2021
Strike Graph, Inc. develops and operates a compliance Security-as-a-Service solution to enable security audits and certifications. It offers Strike Graph, a GRC platform that allows users to organize security programs; and manage compliance controls, policies, and proofs. The company's platform also enables users to prepare for security audits and streamline recurring audit requirements. Strike Graph, Inc. was founded in 2020 and is based in Seattle, Washington.
Coconut Software
Series B in 2021
Our cloud based, enterprise level appointment scheduling and visitor management platform combines your on-location and digital channels, providing self-service booking and curbside pickup, online and physical queuing, wait time tracking, callback requests and virtual meeting support as well as contact center integration.
Arteria AI
Series A in 2021
Arteria AI applies artificial intelligence to the drafting, negotiation, and analysis of contracts.
Procurify Technologies Inc.
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.
Knowtions Research
Series A in 2018
Knowtions Research is an applied artificial intelligence company with a mission to make the world’s health data useful. The company’s Lydia AI platform helps insurers unlock and use predictive insights in messy health data to automate claims processing and personalize customer experience. Headquartered in Toronto, Knowtions Research is backed by Alibaba Entrepreneur’s Fund and Information Venture Partners.
YayPay
Series A in 2018
YayPay builds modern accounts receivables management software powered by data science for finance, credit and collections teams. It serves mid-market and enterprise customers through automation of the credit to cash process with credit assessment, invoicing, collections management, online payment portal, cash application and predictive analytics.
The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York.
Verafin Inc.
Private Equity Round in 2019
Verafin provides a cloud-based cross-institutional software platform for Fraud Detection and Management, BSA/AML Compliance and Management, High-Risk Customer Management, and Secure 314(b) Information Sharing. More than 2600 banks and credit unions use Verafin to effectively fight financial crime and comply with regulations.
Leveraging its big data intelligence, visual storytelling, and collaborative investigation capabilities, Verafin significantly reduces false positive alerts, delivers context-rich insights, and streamlines the daunting BSA/AML compliance processes that financial institutions face today.
Verafin is the exclusive provider for Texas Bankers Association, Western Bankers Association, Florida Bankers Association, Illinois Bankers Association, Massachusetts Bankers Association, and CUNA Strategic Services, with industry endorsements in 47 U.S. states.
Sensibill
Series A in 2017
Sensibill is a digital receipts ecosystem that allows customers to access receipts directly from bank accounts. Sensibill provides a turnkey digital receipt solution to financial institutions. The company's services allows retail customers to manage itemized receipts from trusted financial services applications. The Sensibill platform combines technology with beautiful interface design to deliver an experience that creates consistent customer engagement for banking applications and transforms customers into advocates.
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.
Coconut Software
Series A in 2019
Our cloud based, enterprise level appointment scheduling and visitor management platform combines your on-location and digital channels, providing self-service booking and curbside pickup, online and physical queuing, wait time tracking, callback requests and virtual meeting support as well as contact center integration.
PostBeyond Inc.
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 C in 2018
Q4 is a SaaS platform that provides advanced communication and intelligence solutions to investor relations officers and the C-suite of public companies. With the goal of improving the effectiveness of investor relations through innovative, forward-thinking website solutions, the Q4 team designed an alternative approach to IR websites that put storytelling first and emphasized intuitive corporate reporting.
Q4 is a trusted partner to over 2,200 of the world’s largest brands. Q4’s comprehensive portfolio of IR communications, intelligence and corporate access solutions, supported by an industry-leading customer experience model, empower customers to build impactful and strategic IR programs
Flybits Inc.
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
BigID, Inc.
Series B in 2018
BigID develops software that helps companies have secure customer data and satisfy privacy regulations. It uses advanced machine learning and identity intelligence to help enterprises better protect their customer and employee data at a petabyte-scale. The company helps organizations manage and protect their customer data, meet data privacy and protection regulations like the CCPA and GDPR, and leverage unmatched coverage for all data across all data stores.
BigID aims to give enterprises the software to safeguard and steward the customer data, by bringing data science to data privacy.
BigID has offices in the US and Israel and is founded in 2016 by security industry veterans spanning the identity, data security, big data, and governance markets.
Coconut Software
Series A in 2017
Our cloud based, enterprise level appointment scheduling and visitor management platform combines your on-location and digital channels, providing self-service booking and curbside pickup, online and physical queuing, wait time tracking, callback requests and virtual meeting support as well as contact center integration.
Thoughtexchange
Series B in 2019
Whether you’re looking to engage ten stakeholders or a community of 10,000 people, ThoughtExchange allows leaders to drive strategic discussions at scale.
Unlike meetings, ThoughtExchange ensures you’re not just hearing from the loudest voices in the room. Unlike surveys, respondents feel more comfortable answering tough questions candidly. Unlike polls, leaders receive dynamic, data-rich reports that list results according to priority and urgency.
ThoughtExchange was founded in beautiful Rossland, British Columbia, but our teams enjoy working remotely from all over North America.
Sensibill
Series B in 2019
Sensibill is a digital receipts ecosystem that allows customers to access receipts directly from bank accounts. Sensibill provides a turnkey digital receipt solution to financial institutions. The company's services allows retail customers to manage itemized receipts from trusted financial services applications. The Sensibill platform combines technology with beautiful interface design to deliver an experience that creates consistent customer engagement for banking applications and transforms customers into advocates.
Q4
Series B in 2016
Q4 is a SaaS platform that provides advanced communication and intelligence solutions to investor relations officers and the C-suite of public companies. With the goal of improving the effectiveness of investor relations through innovative, forward-thinking website solutions, the Q4 team designed an alternative approach to IR websites that put storytelling first and emphasized intuitive corporate reporting.
Q4 is a trusted partner to over 2,200 of the world’s largest brands. Q4’s comprehensive portfolio of IR communications, intelligence and corporate access solutions, supported by an industry-leading customer experience model, empower customers to build impactful and strategic IR programs
Cinchy
Series A in 2020
Cinchy Inc. develops and provides a data collaboration platform that uses data fabric technology to connect data sources within a networked architecture, consolidate data management, and data protection. Its platform enables multiple systems and users to collaborate on data in real-time, without requiring separate application databases. The company also provides for cross-application data network which allows the businesses to access and use data increasing the security of customer and employee data. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Toronto, Canada.
Jirav Inc.
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.
