FundThrough
Series B in 2025
Founded in 2014, FundThrough operates an online platform that provides financing solutions to entrepreneurs and small businesses. It offers lines of credit based on outstanding invoices, enabling clients to access working capital quickly with minimal obligations.
Purple Elephant Ventures
Seed Round in 2025
Purple Elephant Ventures is a venture studio founded in 2020 by Ben Peterson, Jan van De Willebois, and Mikul Shah, dedicated to launching three to four startups annually that focus on enhancing travel and tourism, particularly in Africa. The company aims to improve sustainable travel and tourism by helping innovative startups harness the economic potential of the tourism sector, thereby protecting and expanding Africa's natural capital. By supporting tourism industry clients, Purple Elephant Ventures seeks to foster growth and development in this vital sector, enabling it to reach its full potential.
Sparrow BioAcoustics
Seed Round in 2024
Sparrow BioAcoustics ,developers of a smartphone stethoscope designed to gather and collaborate on medical-grade cardiac and pulmonary data.
Purple Elephant Ventures
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Purple Elephant Ventures is a venture studio founded in 2020 by Ben Peterson, Jan van De Willebois, and Mikul Shah, dedicated to launching three to four startups annually that focus on enhancing travel and tourism, particularly in Africa. The company aims to improve sustainable travel and tourism by helping innovative startups harness the economic potential of the tourism sector, thereby protecting and expanding Africa's natural capital. By supporting tourism industry clients, Purple Elephant Ventures seeks to foster growth and development in this vital sector, enabling it to reach its full potential.
Citylitics
Series A in 2022
Citylitics provides predictive intelligence on local utility and public infrastructure markets. Its platform transforms over a billion regulatory documents and public records from thousands of cities into actionable market insights and sales leads, enabling businesses to anticipate and secure public infrastructure contracts.
WatrHub
Venture Round in 2020
WatrHub Inc. is a digital intelligence company based in Toronto, Canada, specializing in artificial intelligence to provide critical market insights for the water infrastructure sector. Founded in 2011, WatrHub delivers predictive intelligence about infrastructure opportunities in the U.S. and Canada by transforming millions of public documents into actionable sales leads and market insights. The company maintains a comprehensive data warehouse focused on U.S. water and wastewater utilities, allowing clients to run tailored queries to uncover specific market questions and sales opportunities. By subscribing to WatrHub's services, manufacturers can identify and engage with potential clients in water utilities, facilitating the introduction of advanced technologies to address aging infrastructure challenges.
Quartermaster
Seed Round in 2018
Teamwork for your home and neighbourhood. Quartermaster is an ecosystem platform that connects the benefits of home-management and neighbourhood-referrals where users get rewarded for getting things done. Users can organize their homes as a team, manage shared projects, support local businesses in their community, and store important documents (receipts, invoices, bills, and home asset information) into their digitized libraries.
Quartermaster
Seed Round in 2017
Teamwork for your home and neighbourhood. Quartermaster is an ecosystem platform that connects the benefits of home-management and neighbourhood-referrals where users get rewarded for getting things done. Users can organize their homes as a team, manage shared projects, support local businesses in their community, and store important documents (receipts, invoices, bills, and home asset information) into their digitized libraries.
FundThrough
Debt Financing in 2016
Founded in 2014, FundThrough operates an online platform that provides financing solutions to entrepreneurs and small businesses. It offers lines of credit based on outstanding invoices, enabling clients to access working capital quickly with minimal obligations.
Sequence Bio
Seed Round in 2016
Sequence Bio is a biotechnology company focused on advancing drug discovery and development through genome therapy. Leveraging the unique genetic characteristics of isolated populations, particularly those in Newfoundland, the company collects DNA and health information to enhance the identification of drug targets. This approach aims to improve the treatment of complex and inherited diseases, ultimately addressing the high failure rate of drug candidates and expediting access to effective therapies for patients in need. By utilizing genetic insights, Sequence Bio seeks to transform the landscape of medicine and deliver better health outcomes.
Sequence Bio
Pre Seed Round in 2015
Sequence Bio is a biotechnology company focused on advancing drug discovery and development through genome therapy. Leveraging the unique genetic characteristics of isolated populations, particularly those in Newfoundland, the company collects DNA and health information to enhance the identification of drug targets. This approach aims to improve the treatment of complex and inherited diseases, ultimately addressing the high failure rate of drug candidates and expediting access to effective therapies for patients in need. By utilizing genetic insights, Sequence Bio seeks to transform the landscape of medicine and deliver better health outcomes.
Shopify
Seed Round in 2007
Shopify Inc., headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, is a leading commerce company offering a cloud-based, multi-channel platform for small and medium-sized businesses worldwide. Its platform enables merchants to manage and grow their businesses across various sales channels, including web, mobile, social media, marketplaces, and physical retail. Shopify provides a suite of services, such as marketing tools, customer engagement, payments, and shipping, to simplify online store operations. The platform also offers a single view of business and customers, inventory management, order processing, and analytics. Shopify Plus, its enterprise-level offering, caters to high-volume merchants, providing customization options and powering global brands. As of 2021, Shopify powers over 1.7 million businesses in approximately 175 countries.