Leaders Fund

Leaders Fund is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage companies taking advantage of the shift to cloud, mobile, and machine learning in the enterprise software sector. The firm was founded by an experienced team of operators who have founded and scaled multiple enterprise software companies, achieving successful public and private exits. It is based in Toronto, Ontario with an office in Atlanta, Georgia. Our fund’s evergreen, flexible structure enables us to partner creatively with other investors while ensuring deep alignment with our portfolio companies on deal structure, growth strategy and long-term goals.

Debacco, Stephen A.

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Gideon Hayden

Co-Founder and Partner

MacDonald, David L.

Venture Partner

25 past transactions

ThreeKit

Series B in 2021
ThreeKit is a 3D product configuration and visualization platform that enables brands to create and manage beautiful visuals at scale. The platform combines innovation, expertise, and experience to deliver high-quality solutions that boost online customer engagement and conversions. It also enables businesses of any size to scale and automate beautiful product visuals across channels, both online and offline. ThreeKit allows companies to cost-effectively and easily create thousands of photorealistic, interactive 3D, and augmented reality visuals. The platform users can use the ThreeKit to create a 3D configurator, allowing consumers to make customizations in real-time. Threekit launched its flagship product, Virtual Photographer, a program that creates product images for e-commerce that look real but are completely computer-rendered. It was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Drata

Series B in 2021
Drata is a Trust Management Platform with the mission to help companies earn and keep the trust of their users, customers, partners, and prospects. Drata helps thousands of companies streamline their security compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, CCPA, CMMC, NIST CSF, etc.) through continuous, automated control monitoring and evidence collection, resulting in lower costs and time spent preparing for annual audits. Drata was founded in 2020 by Adam Markowitz, Daniel Marashlian, and Troy Markowitz and is based in San Diego, California, United States.

Upscribe

Seed Round in 2021
The subscription revolution has revolutionized the digital world. But it’s only just started for physical products. Upscribe enables eCommerce merchants to leverage the true power of subscriptions to move beyond recurring transactions to build long-lasting customer relationships.

Drata

Series A in 2021
Drata is a Trust Management Platform with the mission to help companies earn and keep the trust of their users, customers, partners, and prospects. Drata helps thousands of companies streamline their security compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, CCPA, CMMC, NIST CSF, etc.) through continuous, automated control monitoring and evidence collection, resulting in lower costs and time spent preparing for annual audits. Drata was founded in 2020 by Adam Markowitz, Daniel Marashlian, and Troy Markowitz and is based in San Diego, California, United States.

Drata

Seed Round in 2021
Drata is a Trust Management Platform with the mission to help companies earn and keep the trust of their users, customers, partners, and prospects. Drata helps thousands of companies streamline their security compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, CCPA, CMMC, NIST CSF, etc.) through continuous, automated control monitoring and evidence collection, resulting in lower costs and time spent preparing for annual audits. Drata was founded in 2020 by Adam Markowitz, Daniel Marashlian, and Troy Markowitz and is based in San Diego, California, United States.

Ada

Series B in 2020
Ada is a computer software company that features a chatbot-based platform that helps enterprise businesses to automate customer experience. Its platform operates through both web and mobile machine learning engine that reduces support volume and empowers customers to find answers on their own. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Toronto in Canada.

Briza

Seed Round in 2020
Briza.io is the commercial insurance-as-a-service API. Briza is creating the infrastructure that underwriting systems will use to talk to insurance agencies, consumer apps, and anybody who wants to instantly sell insurance with just a few lines of code.

Top Hat

Series D in 2020
As a student engagement and interactive teaching platform, Top Hat’s software helps college professors activate classrooms. In a world of digital distractions, countless academic studies have reinforced the reality that students better understand the day’s lesson if they’re asked to engage with peers, interact with complex material and participate in class. In Top Hat, students use their personal devices for quizzes, polls, and difficult simulations, transforming lecture halls from passive to active learning environments. As an advocate for traditional, on-campus education, Top Hat not only modernizes established teaching methods but also facilitates new approaches including the ‘flipped classroom,’ ‘group learning.

Spatial

Series A in 2020
Spatial is a gaming platform where millions of creators build and share fun and inspiring experiences that bring people together across web, mobile, and VR. Our goal is to change the way we share fun experiences, tell stories, and make friends. Today, videos are the most common way to talk and share things online, but often people end up just watching and not interacting. We want the internet to be a more playful and social place. This change is already happening in the world of gaming. We want to accelerate this by making it easier for everyone to create, share, and play fun games with their friends. Just like YouTube did for videos. To turn this vision into reality, we are currently focused on the following three pillars: - Creator Toolkit: a dynamic extension of Unity, the most widely adopted game engine globally. We provide you with easy tools and useful templates so you can focus on what matters most - creating fun games that bring people together. - Virtual Economy (beta): enabling the sale of digital items, avatar enhancements, and power-ups. We’re proud to provide a creator-friendly revenue share that outperforms our competitors, putting more money in your pocket. - Multi-Platform: the only platform where your games are published across web, mobile, and VR, ensuring you reach every player on every device.

Ada

Series A in 2018
Ada is a computer software company that features a chatbot-based platform that helps enterprise businesses to automate customer experience. Its platform operates through both web and mobile machine learning engine that reduces support volume and empowers customers to find answers on their own. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Toronto in Canada.

CrowdRiff

Series A in 2018
CrowdRiff is a visual marketing platform for travel and tourism brands that allows to discover and deliver top-performing visual content to every marketing channel. Powered by artificial intelligence, its platform allows marketers to source and share top performing visuals with their respective audiences, at scale. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Spot

Series B in 2018
Spot offers cloud service and management optimization for SaaS companies, executed by AI software that among other things predicts price changes, essentially helping companies find cheap cloud infrastructures (called spot instances) and manage them.

Zaius

Series B in 2018
Zaius is a customer data platform designed to empower marketers to grow revenue from existing customers. The company's CRM eliminates that gap by bringing customer data and campaign execution together in a single platform, empowering marketers to engineer repeat purchases. Founded in 2012, Zaius is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

CallRail

Venture Round in 2017
CallRail is a phone call tracking and analytics platform businesses use to understand which marketing campaigns drive leads and conversions. Its intuitive software helps data-driven marketers optimize the performance of their online and offline advertising campaigns, increase sales effectiveness, and improve customer retention.

Manifold.co

Series A in 2017
Manifold allows you to discover, buy, and manage the best developer services for your application, regardless of cloud. Manifold is on a mission to reduce the complexity of building and deploying applications with micro-services and third-party infrastructure services.

Flashpoint

Series C in 2017
Trusted by governments, global commercial companies, and educational institutions, Flashpoint helps organizations protect their most critical assets, infrastructure, and stakeholders from security risks such as cyber threats, ransomware, fraud, physical threats, and more. Leading security practitioners—including cyber threat intelligence (CTI), vulnerability management, DevSecOps and vendor risk management teams—rely on the Flashpoint Intelligence Platform to proactively identify and mitigate risk and stay ahead of the evolving threat landscape. To learn more about Flashpoint, visit https://www.flashpoint-intel.com/ or follow us on Twitter at @FlashpointIntel.

Top Hat

Series C in 2017
As a student engagement and interactive teaching platform, Top Hat’s software helps college professors activate classrooms. In a world of digital distractions, countless academic studies have reinforced the reality that students better understand the day’s lesson if they’re asked to engage with peers, interact with complex material and participate in class. In Top Hat, students use their personal devices for quizzes, polls, and difficult simulations, transforming lecture halls from passive to active learning environments. As an advocate for traditional, on-campus education, Top Hat not only modernizes established teaching methods but also facilitates new approaches including the ‘flipped classroom,’ ‘group learning.

Zaius

Venture Round in 2017
Zaius is a customer data platform designed to empower marketers to grow revenue from existing customers. The company's CRM eliminates that gap by bringing customer data and campaign execution together in a single platform, empowering marketers to engineer repeat purchases. Founded in 2012, Zaius is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Helpful

Seed Round in 2017
Helpful is a human way to build relationships at work. Create short mobile videos to energize your distributed team.

360insights

Venture Round in 2016
360 Incentives provides a highly flexible software as a service platform which enables manufacturers and distributors to create, measure and manage their incentives programs such as sales spiffs or rebates in real time with 100% auditing and fast payout of claims.

Baker Technologies

Seed Round in 2016
A better connection with your customers keeps them happy and loyal. We build smart products to help you create a better shopping experience, making it easy to grow your business.

Flashpoint

Series B in 2016
Trusted by governments, global commercial companies, and educational institutions, Flashpoint helps organizations protect their most critical assets, infrastructure, and stakeholders from security risks such as cyber threats, ransomware, fraud, physical threats, and more. Leading security practitioners—including cyber threat intelligence (CTI), vulnerability management, DevSecOps and vendor risk management teams—rely on the Flashpoint Intelligence Platform to proactively identify and mitigate risk and stay ahead of the evolving threat landscape. To learn more about Flashpoint, visit https://www.flashpoint-intel.com/ or follow us on Twitter at @FlashpointIntel.

Zaius

Venture Round in 2016
Zaius is a customer data platform designed to empower marketers to grow revenue from existing customers. The company's CRM eliminates that gap by bringing customer data and campaign execution together in a single platform, empowering marketers to engineer repeat purchases. Founded in 2012, Zaius is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

360insights

Venture Round in 2016
360 Incentives provides a highly flexible software as a service platform which enables manufacturers and distributors to create, measure and manage their incentives programs such as sales spiffs or rebates in real time with 100% auditing and fast payout of claims.

Acme Technologies

Venture Round in 2014
ACME is the revolutionary, customizable, all-in-one visitor commerce engine for cultural institutions, wineries, attractions, and more. Through ACME’s single cart, visitors can transact with these organizations on the web, phone, or in person and immediately enjoy the perks of membership. As a cloud-based platform, ACME pushes this rich visitor/member data into third-party tools such as CRMs to support one-to-one marketing experiences, and ultimately, increasing revenue. ACME’s all-inclusive approach removes barriers and delivers software, hardware, service, support, and upgrades with predictable pricing.
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