Maple Leaf Angels

Maple Leaf Angels is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investments. The firm seeks to invest in information technology, manufacturing, alternative energy, finance, and services companies but may consider investment opportunities outside these sectors. It prefers to invest in first-of-a-kind new ideas, rather than incremental enhancements to common products and services. The firm does not invest in science projects that don't demonstrate a clear path to commercialization. It invests in companies based in North America with a focus on Toronto. The firm seeks to invest between CAD 250,000 ($244,800) and CAD 500,000 million ($489,601 million) in companies with pre-money valuations between CAD 250,000 ($244,800) and CAD3 million ($293,761 million) and annual revenue more than CAD 50 million ($48.96 million) within five years. It can participate in subsequent financing rounds. The firm may co-invest with other angel investors, venture capital funds or early stage private equity firms. It seeks to exit its investments within eight years. Maple Leaf Angels is based in Toronto, Canada.
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Robert Koturbash

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Vihangi Mehta

MD

33 past transactions

ExpertFile Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
ExpertFile Inc. develops cloud-based content marketing application and online platform for organizations and industries to manage and promote their experts and thought leaders. The company’s platform helps marketing departments and agencies to customize the content, and layout and design to match their current website and branding; updating and monitoring the engagement and receiving from media, conferences, and business prospects; and publishes engaging profiles and bring profiles to life with video, slides, and publications. It serves corporations, universities and colleges, healthcare institutions, and industry trade associations. ExpertFile Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in Toronto, Canada with additional offices in New York, New York.

QuoteMachine

Seed Round in 2021
QuoteMachine is a software to help local retailers turn any in-store conversation into an online sale. When a customer leaves the store without buying, the sales associate sends them a personalized microsite that contains the list of the products they talked about. When the customer is ready, they can then order directly from the microsite. Our microsite converts at 70%.

TraceSecurity

Series C in 2008
TraceSecurity, Inc. provides information technology (IT) security and compliance services and software. It offers risk assessment, IT security audit, penetration testing, network vulnerability assessment, application security testing, social engineering, wireless assessment and penetration test, advanced persistent threat assessment, and ADA website compliance assessment services. The company also offers TracePhishing, a phishing awareness platform; TraceEDU, a cybersecurity educational platform for employees; TraceAdvisor, a customer awareness platform; and TraceVishing, a vishing awareness platform. In addition, the company offers cybersecurity tools that include vulnerability, policy, risk, vendor, audit, and compliance management solutions; incident response and managed SIEM solutions; and cybersecurity assessment tools and physical security inspection app. It serves government, education, legal, energy, and healthcare industries, as well as banks and credit unions. TraceSecurity, Inc. was formerly known as Blaze Technologies LLC and changed its name to TraceSecurity, Inc. in January 2004. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

LearnExperts

Seed Round in 2021
LearnExperts is developers of a creator platform that achieves rapid course creation through artificial intelligence.

Suncayr

Seed Round in 2017
Suncayr has developed a colour changing sticker that tells you when your sunscreen is no longer protecting you. The sticker, "SPOT", is is put directly on the skin, and then sunscreen is applied to your whole body. When your sunscreen is protecting your skin from UV, the sticker is clear, but when your skin becomes exposed to UV, the sticker changes to purple. This will give you and your family the confidence to safely enjoy the sun!

Jaza Energy Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Jaza Energy Inc. designs and develops integrated energy solutions. It offers central solar energy hubs that provide power to charge portable battery packs. The company’s energy hubs used to power lights, phones, and other DC loads, as well as provide energy to anchored loads, such as water systems, shops, schools, and community infrastructure. Jaza Energy Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Halifax, Canada.

Onyx Motion

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Onyx Motion is a developer of sports coaching applications for apple and android smartwatches.

Waverly

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Waverly is using natural language understanding to build a new kind of algorithm. Our iPhone app is based on a series of waves: short paragraphs that allow you to express your preferences in your own words while being understood by our Empathetic AI. Waverly makes it fun to discover original content you genuinely love.

OnCall Health

Seed Round in 2019
OnCall Health is a virtual care platform that is licensed to healthcare providers to use with their patients. Founded in 2016, the company provides technology and services including security, support, analytics, and white label branding to more than 300 healthcare organizations.

Well.ca Inc.

Seed Round in 2008
Well.ca is Canada's online destination for health, beauty and baby products and offers over 40,000 products with free shipping on all orders over $29. They also boast Canada's largest online assortment of Green & Natural products. With offices and a warehouse located in Guelph, Ontario, and an office in downtown Toronto, Well.ca is a proudly Canadian company that focuses on giving customers a simple and hassle-free shopping experience.

ChipCare Corporation

Series A in 2015
ChipCare Corporation develops and produces point-of-care testing and monitoring systems for health applications. It develops a handheld cell analyzer system that is used to test various diseases from a single drop of blood sample, including cell counting, protein/enzyme, and pathogen detection. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

TraceSecurity

Series C in 2007
TraceSecurity, Inc. provides information technology (IT) security and compliance services and software. It offers risk assessment, IT security audit, penetration testing, network vulnerability assessment, application security testing, social engineering, wireless assessment and penetration test, advanced persistent threat assessment, and ADA website compliance assessment services. The company also offers TracePhishing, a phishing awareness platform; TraceEDU, a cybersecurity educational platform for employees; TraceAdvisor, a customer awareness platform; and TraceVishing, a vishing awareness platform. In addition, the company offers cybersecurity tools that include vulnerability, policy, risk, vendor, audit, and compliance management solutions; incident response and managed SIEM solutions; and cybersecurity assessment tools and physical security inspection app. It serves government, education, legal, energy, and healthcare industries, as well as banks and credit unions. TraceSecurity, Inc. was formerly known as Blaze Technologies LLC and changed its name to TraceSecurity, Inc. in January 2004. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Wisely Cloud Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
Wisely Cloud Inc. develops artificial intelligence backed fundraising platform for charities. The platform allows charities to manage donor portfolios and donor relationships. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Bus.com

Seed Round in 2015
Bus.com is a bus rental platform that allows its clients to plan and book group transportation online. Its web app makes it easy to organize, book, join and enjoy bus trips. T The company was founded by travel industry veterans and built with startup hustle. Its headquarters is located at Montreal, Quebec.

ACTO

Seed Round in 2017
ACTO is an omnichannel education and engagement platform for life sciences companies. They use AI-powered mobile experiences and agency partnerships to educate and engage field reps, physicians and patients, while giving senior commercial and clinical leaders real-time insights. ACTO is a one-stop-shop sales, marketing, and training platform designed to help life sciences companies effectively communicate their clinical evidence story, increase sales, and gather field intelligence.
UCIC is a Toronto-based startup that is dedicated to bringing natural interaction to technology. The company primarily focuses on adding voice interaction to consumer electronic product and Internet of Things devices. UCIC's clients include top consumer brands and chipmakers. UCIC has gained experience from its first product, the Ubi - a Wi-Fi connected, voice operated computer that allowed people to control and command IoT devices and Internet services without the need to open a laptop or take out a phone. It was the first device on the market of its kind. UCIC first launched the Ubi as a project on Kickstarter in the summer of 2012, raising over $229,000 in contributions. It has since shipped over 3,000 units to over 30 countries and has learned from millions of interactions between people and these new devices.

Crowd2Know

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Crowd2Know operates in the area of stakeholder engagement. We bring organizations operating in urban development closer to their customers, citizens and end users by providing a platform for listening, analyzing, and effectively communicating with each other. We achieve this through a systematic process using a suite of software products and expert services that facilitate the analysis of social media, project documents, and other records. Using our urban infrastructure knowledge base and set of analysis algorithms we provide a real-time mapping of stakeholders, discussion topics, and relative alignment of opinions which drive consistent recommendations for decision makers.

ConferenceCloud

Pre Seed Round in 2016
ConferenceCloud provides state-of-the-art live communications and interactivity for hybrid conferences, lectures and meetings. There are conferences held all over the world chock full of inspiring experts, content and research. But there is one main problem that all conferences share in common: and that is profitability. It doesn’t matter if the conference holds 300 people, or 3000 people, held in Montreal or Madrid. The profitability for the organizers is relatively low. The current conference model is constrained by the physical venue. With on-site attendees the profit just doesn’t scale.

Neurovine

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Neurovine is a health care company.

Fluent.ai

Seed Round in 2017
Fluent.ai adopts a fundamentally different machine learning approach to speech recognition. Our models learns from context, behavior, and speech, in any language. Its speech recognition engine expresses the flexibility to understand natural phrases reliably across languages, accents, and noise environments such as a smart home, connected car, wearable, or virtual reality headset. Special features of Fluent.ai include multilingual, van be personalized, reliability, and ability to use both offline and online. It was launched in 2015 by Vikrant Tomar..

RockMass Technologies

Seed Round in 2020
RockMass Technologies is revolutionizing structural mapping by developing a data collection tool made for geologists. The company creates data collection more efficient, accurate and safe for geologists in mining, exploration, civil engineering and education. At RockMass, our goal is to improve geological mapping in the mining, civil engineering, and exploration industries with our revolutionary mapping technologies.

Shiny Ads

Seed Round in 2011
Shiny Ads provides an end-to-end programmatic direct advertising platform for digital publishers that removes the inefficiencies of selling and buying premium inventory resulting in increased revenues and profits.

Nicoya Lifesciences Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Nicoya Lifesciences Inc. develops sensor products to get affinity, kinetics, and specificity for proteins, antibodies, DNA, RNA, enzymes, polymers, and small molecules. The company offers surface plasmon resonance (SPR) instruments, spectrophotometers, sensor chips, SPR reagents and kits, and SPR accessories; and OpenSPR, a personal label-free biomolecular analysis instrument. It also provides software solutions, such as TraceDrawer, a real-time kinetic analysis software; OpenSPR software that allows the control of the OpenSPR instrument and real time data acquisition; and OpenSpec, a software program for real time optical peak tracking. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Kitchener, Canada.

MasteryPrep

Debt Financing in 2015
MasteryPrep offers a college and career readiness preparation program to fit its client’s school’s needs and schedule. It is a provider of professional development for the ACT and has helped hundreds of thousands of educators, administrators, and students improve their schools’ standardized test outcomes. MasteryPrep’s program focuses particularly on students who are scoring below an 18 on the ACT. It was launched in 2013 and is based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Cybeats Technologies Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Cybeats provides an immune system for IoT devices. Taking an "inside-out" approach to cybersecurity, Cybeats’ software is implanted into Enterprise IoT devices to provide continuous protection, allowing devices to detect the most sophisticated threats instantly and gather data to help security professionals neutralize them. Cybeats’ Cloud SaaS Ecosystem analyzes data from the infected device, providing CSOs and IT pros a full diagnosis and treatment plan for the threat, saving them time and money.

iRestify

Seed Round in 2018
iRestify Inc. provides cleaning, disinfecting and maintenance services to property managers in Canada. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Orchard Labs Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Orchard Labs Inc. operates an online marketplace that connects buyers and sellers of used iPhones. The company also offers official Apple accessories, roam mobility US SIM cards, and high-resolution screen protectors, as well as a permanent unlocking service. It also helps public and private-sector organizations to manage the cost of replacing their smartphones by purchasing the used hardware that is being replaced. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Locketgo

Seed Round in 2019
Location LocketGo Inc., offers online platform and application, for rental service of lockers for events, such as concerts, conventions, and festivals. It offers a turnkey locker rental solution that utilizes radio-frequency identification (RFID) and digital PIN code equipped with one USB charging port for charging mobile devices. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Montreal, Canada.

Cybeats Technologies Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Cybeats provides an immune system for IoT devices. Taking an "inside-out" approach to cybersecurity, Cybeats’ software is implanted into Enterprise IoT devices to provide continuous protection, allowing devices to detect the most sophisticated threats instantly and gather data to help security professionals neutralize them. Cybeats’ Cloud SaaS Ecosystem analyzes data from the infected device, providing CSOs and IT pros a full diagnosis and treatment plan for the threat, saving them time and money.

Parlay Ideas Inc.

Convertible Note in 2020
Parlay Ideas Inc. owns and operates a platform which allows teachers to have discussions with the students. The platform allows measuring the quantity and quality of student contributions and also allows teachers to give feedback. The company features include overview of the topic, online discussions, cases studies, and instructional templates. Parlay Ideas Inc. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.