Investor directory

Information Venture Partners

Information Venture Partners is a Toronto-based venture capital firm established in 2014, though its origins date back to 2001 when it was known as RBC Venture Partners. The firm focuses on early-stage investments in North American enterprise and financial technology companies. It specializes in direct investments, typically in Series A and early-stage private companies, as well as growth-stage ventures. Information Venture Partners targets sectors such as software as a service (SaaS), fintech, and financial services technology, seeking companies with at least CAD 1 million in annual recurring revenue. The firm aims to partner with exceptional entrepreneurs to identify disruptive opportunities, leveraging its extensive experience and advisor network to support its portfolio companies. While often acting as the first institutional investor, it also values collaboration with like-minded co-investors. Information Venture Partners is committed to fostering the success of the leadership teams it backs without managing the portfolio companies directly.

Focus

Series AEarly VentureScale StageSeries BInformation ServicesShow more
http://www.informationvp.com
https://crunchbase.com/organization/information-venture-partners-2
https://linkedin.com/company/5389785
https://signal.nfx.com/firms/information-venture-partners
https://twitter.com/informationvp
https://www.capitaliq.com/CIQDotNet/company.aspx?companyId=120861
https://www.privateequityinternational.com/database/#/profile?id=16211
1 University Ave, Suite 1901 Toronto, ON M5J 2P1
1 University Ave, Suite 1901 Toronto, ON

Rob Antoniades

General Partner and Co-Founder

Peter Carrescia

Venture Partner

Sara Defina

Vice President, Finance

Kerri Golden

Venture Partner

Aman Nabi

Associate

Jane Podbelskaya

Principal

Dave Unsworth

General Partner and Co-Founder

56 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.

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.

TouchBistro

Private Placement in 2019
TouchBistro is an iPad-based restaurant point-of-sale system enabling owners to manage reservations and take orders instantly. Instead of servers repeatedly moving between customers and terminals for order management, servers can remain with customers and instantly submit orders to the kitchen and bar. Servers no longer need to write down an order and then enter it into a distant terminal. TouchBistro's single entry system reduces errors and increases efficiency. Menu items can be presented in vibrant color with every detail captured and can be quickly and easily updated and even published to the Web, providing more dynamic impact than a traditional menu can provide.

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

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.

Strike Graph

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.

Arteria AI

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

Adaptive Insights

Series G in 2015
Budgeting and Forecasting Software for Business

Lydia.ai

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

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.

Fulcrum Management Solutions Ltd.

Private Placement in 2019
Fulcrum Management Solutions Ltd. develops and operates a group insight platform that leverages the principles of crowd sourcing, interest-based negotiation, and experiential education in a single conversation. It offers Thoughtexchange, a communication tool that allows customers lead group conversations with people to surface insights/interests and create shared understanding with their communities and staff. The company also provides engagement consulting services to its customers, including annual improvement planning, issue-based engagement, scenario engagement, constituent engagement, change leadership, strategic planning, staff development, border restructuring, and facilities planning, as well as project management, communications support, facilitation, moderation, graphic design, website creation, analysis, meeting facilitation, engagement consulting, and more. Its customers primarily include school districts and other organizations in North America. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Rossland, Canada.

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.

Jirav

Private Placement 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.

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.

BigID

Private Placement 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.

League

Private Placement in 2018
League Inc. is re-imagining employee health benefits and is on a mission to empower people to live healthier, happier lives —every day. We’ve re-imagined employee health benefits. How? Our all-digital platform makes it a breeze for your team to enjoy their benefits and automates all the admin work HR leaders love to hate, making the experience exactly what it should be—easy. Whether it’s complete coverage or a new addition to your total rewards package, League’s suite of products keeps your team healthy and engaged for the long run. From real-time usage tracking to on-site health and wellness activities we’ve got you covered.

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.

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

BigID

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.

Q4

Private Placement 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

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.

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.

Helcim Inc.

Series B in 2024
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.

Arteria AI

Series B in 2023
Arteria AI applies artificial intelligence to the drafting, negotiation, and analysis of contracts.

Cinchy

Series B in 2022
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.

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.

BigID

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.

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.

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.

Cinchy

Private Placement 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.

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.

Coconut Software Corporation

Private Placement in 2019
Coconut Software Corporation develops an enterprise solution to manage online appointment scheduling for companies in North America. It serves banking and financial, telecommunications, and retail industries. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Saskatoon, Canada with locations in Toronto, Canada; and Denver, Colorado.

Sensibill

Private Placement 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.

King Children

Private Placement in 2018
King Children manufactures and sells custom 3D printed frames. The company provides a tech platform that allows users to design frames with their desired colors, shapes, and lenses. The company is based in Brooklyn, New York.

FIDEL API

Private Placement in 2019
Fidel Limited engages in developing application program interface (API) platform that connects developers to marketing services. The company develops card-linked API, which allows developers and retailers to create apps and connect banking cards with reward services. It manages all heavy lifting in the background and transactional data securely accessible through a single access point so that developer can create web and mobile applications using real-time payment data. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Lydia.ai

Private Placement 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.

Procurify

Private Placement 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.

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

LendingFront

Private Placement 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

Private Placement 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

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.

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.

Strike Graph

Venture Round in 2023
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.

Wisedocs

Series A in 2024
Rethinking Medical Assessments.

ThoughtExchange

Venture Round in 2023
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.

Procurify

Series C in 2023
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.

Jirav

Series B in 2023
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.

Strike Graph

Venture Round in 2023
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.

FX HedgePool

Series A in 2022
FX HedgePool is a peer-to-peer matching platform for the buy side to align and trade direct. Powered by a vision of transparency, fairness and function, FX HedgePool was born. We looked at today’s trading landscape and emerging technologies and built a product positioned to become the platform of tomorrow. While... Read More