NAventures is the corporate venture capital arm of National Bank of Canada, focusing on investing in innovative startups and technologies. As a strategic investor, NAventures seeks opportunities to support and collaborate with early-stage companies in various industries to drive growth and innovation. With a strong backing from National Bank of Canada, NAventures aims to provide not only financial support but also expertise and resources to help startups succeed and achieve their full potential.
Sardine is a financial technology company that specializes in providing a risk and fraud infrastructure tailored for the online economy. It has developed a device intelligence platform that leverages artificial intelligence and advanced risk engine software. This platform enhances fraud detection while minimizing sign-up friction by analyzing multiple real-time data points, including device information, browser details, and behavioral biometrics. By integrating this technology, Sardine enables businesses to establish a robust risk and fraud management framework, ultimately reducing costs within the fintech ecosystem.
Walnut Insurance
Series A in 2024
Walnut Insurance is a technology company specializing in embedded insurance infrastructure for retailers, financial services providers, and consumer platforms. The firm enables businesses to seamlessly integrate insurance offerings into their products, addressing previous barriers to incorporation. By providing a core infrastructure and a wide array of insurance products, Walnut allows partners to deliver simple and convenient digital-first purchasing experiences. This approach enhances accessibility across various insurance types, including life and property & casualty, and empowers customers to secure coverage in minutes, thereby transforming the way insurance is integrated into everyday consumer experiences.
Maxa
Series A in 2024
Maxa AI specializes in business performance AI technology that enhances the ability of organizations to gain timely insights into their financial and operational data. The company offers an artificial intelligence-based platform that integrates seamlessly with existing enterprise resource planning systems, allowing mid-sized and large businesses to automate financial insights and streamline their data operations. By utilizing a standardized semantic layer within the Snowflake Data Cloud, Maxa AI's solution transforms complex and siloed data from multiple sources into a unified enterprise data model. This enables organizations to monitor, forecast, and optimize their financial performance efficiently, providing them with actionable insights that were previously difficult to obtain. Maxa AI aims to deliver these insights as a low-cost commodity, making advanced data analysis more accessible for its clients.
Synctera
Series A in 2024
Synctera Inc. provides digital banking solutions that connect traditional banking operations with innovative financial technology. Incorporated in 2020 and based in San Carlos, California, the company offers a platform that facilitates the launch of FinTech and embedded banking products for businesses of all sizes. Synctera's technology infrastructure includes robust APIs, which enable companies to efficiently introduce and expand services such as debit cards, bank accounts, charge cards, lines of credit, and money movement. Additionally, the platform supports regional and community banks in navigating regulatory compliance and managing partnerships with FinTech firms. Synctera's comprehensive offerings include PII encryption, secure login, authentication, endpoint protection, and penetration testing, ensuring that businesses can implement banking services effectively and securely.
d1g1t
Venture Round in 2023
d1g1t Inc. is a Toronto-based company that specializes in developing a digital wealth management platform aimed at professional advisers and their individual investors. The platform utilizes advanced analytics and risk management tools to deliver transparent portfolio management services. Key features include client management, business growth monitoring, historical performance analysis, future risk assessment, onboarding solutions, and portfolio tracking. By offering these comprehensive tools, d1g1t enhances the adviser-client relationship through personalized interaction and supports advisers in effectively managing their business growth and investment strategies.
Synctera
Venture Round in 2023
Synctera Inc. provides digital banking solutions that connect traditional banking operations with innovative financial technology. Incorporated in 2020 and based in San Carlos, California, the company offers a platform that facilitates the launch of FinTech and embedded banking products for businesses of all sizes. Synctera's technology infrastructure includes robust APIs, which enable companies to efficiently introduce and expand services such as debit cards, bank accounts, charge cards, lines of credit, and money movement. Additionally, the platform supports regional and community banks in navigating regulatory compliance and managing partnerships with FinTech firms. Synctera's comprehensive offerings include PII encryption, secure login, authentication, endpoint protection, and penetration testing, ensuring that businesses can implement banking services effectively and securely.
Walnut Insurance
Seed Round in 2022
Walnut Insurance is a technology company specializing in embedded insurance infrastructure for retailers, financial services providers, and consumer platforms. The firm enables businesses to seamlessly integrate insurance offerings into their products, addressing previous barriers to incorporation. By providing a core infrastructure and a wide array of insurance products, Walnut allows partners to deliver simple and convenient digital-first purchasing experiences. This approach enhances accessibility across various insurance types, including life and property & casualty, and empowers customers to secure coverage in minutes, thereby transforming the way insurance is integrated into everyday consumer experiences.
Nesto
Series C in 2022
Nesto Inc. is a Montreal-based mortgage broker established in 2017. The company specializes in providing financial and mortgage advice, focusing on various aspects of property-related lending, such as help to buy, buy-to-let, and affordable housing schemes. Nesto aims to create a positive and transparent property financing experience by leveraging advanced technology to screen the entire market for the most affordable mortgage options. Its platform utilizes artificial intelligence to identify relevant mortgage products quickly. Additionally, Nesto's commission-free experts offer unbiased support throughout the financing process, helping clients make informed decisions regarding their property investments.
Ownly
Seed Round in 2022
Ownly is a real estate buyer's verification platform that provides a secure method for homebuyers to confirm their identities and purchasing power quickly. The company operates an e-commerce platform that connects homebuyers with builders, integrating various management software, including enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management. This integration allows for the delivery of valuable data and analytics concerning customer shopping behaviors and buying preferences, facilitating direct sales of homes by agents, brokers, and builders through their websites. By streamlining the verification process and enhancing connectivity within the real estate market, Ownly aims to improve the overall homebuying experience.
Sardine
Series B in 2022
Sardine is a financial technology company that specializes in providing a risk and fraud infrastructure tailored for the online economy. It has developed a device intelligence platform that leverages artificial intelligence and advanced risk engine software. This platform enhances fraud detection while minimizing sign-up friction by analyzing multiple real-time data points, including device information, browser details, and behavioral biometrics. By integrating this technology, Sardine enables businesses to establish a robust risk and fraud management framework, ultimately reducing costs within the fintech ecosystem.
FX HedgePool
Series A in 2022
FX HedgePool operates a peer-to-peer matching platform specifically for institutional foreign exchange transactions. The platform aims to reduce market impact and mitigate volatility effects by employing a credit model that distinguishes liquidity from credit. This innovative approach creates a reliable source of safe liquidity for the swaps market, allowing passive hedgers to offer liquidity to their counterparts while enabling banks to optimize their balance sheets.
ClearEstate
Series A in 2022
ClearEstate is a platform designed to simplify the estate administration and planning process, providing executors with comprehensive guidance and support. By offering a tech-enabled, end-to-end solution for estate settlements, ClearEstate aims to streamline the often cumbersome tasks associated with estate management. The company focuses on automating administrative duties, which reduces the reliance on licensed professionals and helps cut costs. ClearEstate also prioritizes educating executors and beneficiaries, fostering greater transparency throughout the estate execution process. Additionally, the platform offers personalized services in real estate planning, settlement, and funeral arrangements, empowering clients to make informed decisions regarding their estate and investments.
Duality Technologies
Series B in 2021
Duality Technologies Inc. offers a secure collaboration platform designed to enhance digital collaboration processes for organizations across various industries, including healthcare, finance, automotive, insurance, telecommunications, and education. Founded in 2016 and based in Maplewood, New Jersey, Duality specializes in privacy-preserving data collaboration, allowing organizations to maximize the value of their data while ensuring privacy and regulatory compliance. The company's flagship products include SecurePlus Data, which facilitates secure data collaboration at scale between data owners and analysts, and SecurePlus Insights, which integrates with analytical and AI tools in a hosted environment. Led by experts in cryptography and data science, Duality employs privacy-enhancing technologies to enable secure analysis of encrypted data, thereby protecting intellectual property and sensitive information. Recognized as a leader in its field, Duality has received accolades for its innovative approach to data privacy and collaboration.
FICX
Series B in 2021
FICX is a company focused on transforming customer experiences through innovative digital solutions. Specializing in no-code customer experience (CX) application development and automation, FICX enables enterprises to efficiently digitize and automate their customer journeys across various engagement channels. By streamlining sales and service processes, FICX helps organizations reduce operational costs, increase sales conversions, and enhance customer satisfaction. The company’s platform enhances traditional customer service systems by providing a visual interaction interface for call centers, allowing for dynamic engagement and the delivery of visual content directly to customers' smartphones during voice interactions. Founded in 2012, FICX has established a strong presence in multiple sectors, including finance, insurance, and telecommunications, with operations in the United States, the UK, and Israel.
ClearEstate
Seed Round in 2021
ClearEstate is a platform designed to simplify the estate administration and planning process, providing executors with comprehensive guidance and support. By offering a tech-enabled, end-to-end solution for estate settlements, ClearEstate aims to streamline the often cumbersome tasks associated with estate management. The company focuses on automating administrative duties, which reduces the reliance on licensed professionals and helps cut costs. ClearEstate also prioritizes educating executors and beneficiaries, fostering greater transparency throughout the estate execution process. Additionally, the platform offers personalized services in real estate planning, settlement, and funeral arrangements, empowering clients to make informed decisions regarding their estate and investments.
Borrowell
Series C in 2021
Borrowell Inc. is a financial technology company based in Toronto, Canada, founded in 2014. It specializes in offering a range of financial products and services, including personal loans, credit cards, and free credit scores. Borrowell operates an online marketplace-lending platform that provides Canadians with access to borrowing options and unsecured consumer loans. The company is dedicated to enhancing financial prosperity for its users by offering tools for credit education, personalized credit coaching, and AI-driven recommendations for financial products. By delivering resources such as credit monitoring and tailored options from marketplace partners, Borrowell aims to help customers secure low-interest loans and improve their overall financial well-being.
Breathe Life
Series A in 2020
Breathe Life Inc. is a Montreal-based company that designs and develops a software platform specifically for the life insurance industry. Founded in 2017, it offers an enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that facilitates the digital distribution of life and health insurance policies, eliminating the need for traditional brokers. The platform features a streamlined, single-session quote creation and application process, allowing consumers to independently explore financial products, identify their needs, and complete purchases online. By providing an end-to-end system, Breathe Life enhances the speed of policy delivery and helps insurers reduce operational costs, thereby improving overall efficiency in the distribution of financial security products.
Nest Wealth
Corporate Round in 2020
Nest Wealth, founded in 2014, has established itself as Canada's first SaaS-based digital wealth management platform. It aims to provide all investors with access to sophisticated and personalized wealth management services. The platform serves both wealth management firms and individual advisors, enabling them to manage a wide range of investments across various distribution channels through its configurable white label practice management tool. For individual investors, Nest Wealth offers an automated and low-fee wealth management solution that emphasizes transparency and facilitates the achievement of financial goals. The platform is favored by several major wealth management firms and financial institutions in Canada, including the National Bank of Canada, which utilize it to modernize their wealth management offerings. In addition to direct-to-investor services, Nest Wealth's technology includes features that support efficient onboarding, transparent reporting, and integrated back-office compliance, helping financial institutions lower operational costs while allowing individual investors to minimize transaction expenses.
Flinks
Series A in 2020
Flinks, established in 2016 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, specializes in financial data aggregation. It offers a platform that securely connects businesses with their users' financial data, enabling them to validate accounts, verify balances, and access transaction history. Flinks' API solution allows companies to integrate this data into their products, enhancing user experiences and facilitating better financial services. The company ensures robust security and compliance measures to protect sensitive information.
KOHO
Series B in 2019
Koho Financial Inc., established in 2014 and based in Toronto, Canada, is a financial technology company specializing in affordable banking services. It offers customers a reloadable Visa debit card and a user-friendly mobile app, equipped with tools and suggestions to help manage spending, set financial goals, track cash flow, and gain insights into expenses.
Moka
Series A in 2019
Moka (previously Mylo) is Canada’s #1 saving and investing app and we're on a mission to help people around the world achieve their financial goals. Moka makes it easy to save more, spend less, and invest smarter. The Moka app automatically rounds up your everyday purchases and invests the spare change, which makes it possible for everyone to start investing with no minimum investment, lifestyle change or financial knowledge required. Since launching in 2017, the app has been downloaded by 750,000 Canadians and earned thousands of 5-star reviews. In 2020, the company rebranded from Mylo to Moka and expanded to France to make it possible for more people to round up —but investing spare change is just the first Moka feature designed to help people save more, spend less, and invest smarter. Moka is developing new products driven by AI and human expertise that will reduce expenses, accelerate debt repayment, provide financial coaching, deliver valuable cashback rewards, and ultimately empower everyone to make the most of their money.
Sensibill
Series B in 2019
Sensibill Inc., founded in 2012 and based in Toronto, Canada, operates a cloud-based application that simplifies receipt management for users. The company's platform allows consumers to track their spending and manage their finances effectively by capturing both paper and electronic receipts. This digital receipt management solution empowers financial institutions to provide personalized insights, helping customers develop healthier financial habits. By analyzing SKU-level data and purchase behavior, Sensibill unlocks valuable insights that support revenue growth for these institutions. The technology has reached over 60 million users across North America and the U.K., facilitating easier reconciliation of bank statements, returns, exchanges, expenses, taxes, and accounting.
MX Technologies
Series B in 2019
MX is a fintech data company that aims to connect people with their financial data in a way that automates their money experience. It enables fintech and all financial institutions with aggregating, enhancing, analyzing, presenting, and acting on financial data. MX enables banks and credit unions to achieve record-breaking growth by winning their competitor's most profitable account holders. As one of the fastest-growing fintech providers, MX drives customer-centric banking relationships by gathering and providing data upon which online and mobile banking partners and financial institutions can create and deliver next-generation banking applications and solutions. Founded in 2010, MX delivers data aggregation, data cleansing, auto-categorization, classification, money management, custom API, data analytics, marketing, UI, and more. In addition, MX offers an extensive array of client services, ranging from training to custom marketing services. MX currently partners with more than 600 financial institutions and more than 30 digital, online, and mobile banking providers — designating MX as a proven powerhouse in the fintech space.
SortSpoke
Venture Round in 2019
SortSpoke specializes in automating the extraction of data from documents, leveraging artificial intelligence to streamline processes that are typically manual and labor-intensive. By utilizing its cloud-based service, SortSpoke learns how users categorize their documents and the specific data they require, ultimately performing these tasks autonomously. This software significantly reduces labor costs associated with data entry by efficiently extracting information from unstructured documents, including text and tables. As a result, businesses benefit from minimized manual errors and shortened cycle times in their document processing operations.
NestReady
Venture Round in 2018
NestReady Inc. is a real estate technology company that creates an integrated marketplace for mortgage lenders and homebuyers, enhancing the home buying experience. Founded in 2012 and based in Montreal, Canada, NestReady's platform connects all stages of the home buying journey, allowing lenders to build relationships with clients and track their progress effectively. By combining mortgage services with real estate, the platform simplifies the process for users, facilitating better understanding of client needs. This integration helps mortgage lenders reduce customer acquisition costs while improving conversion rates and retention on renewals. NestReady's white-label, plug-and-play solution enables lenders to offer a comprehensive home buying service directly on their own websites.
MindBridge
Series A in 2018
MindBridge Analytics Inc. is a Canadian FinTech company specializing in financial analytics software. The company leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence to identify anomalous patterns in financial activities, uncovering both unintentional errors and intentional misstatements. Its flagship product, the MindBridge AI Auditor, is designed for audit, assurance, and commercial enterprises, enabling organizations to analyze financial datasets effectively. By providing risk-weighted analysis and deep insights into monetary flows, MindBridge helps companies enhance their controls and improve decision-making processes, ultimately minimizing financial loss across various industries.
Dialogue Health Technologies
Series A in 2018
Dialogue Health Technologies operates a comprehensive virtual care platform that provides employee wellness and health solutions for Canadian employers. Founded in 2016 and based in Montreal, the company offers a variety of services aimed at enhancing employee engagement and health. Its platform allows employees to interact with healthcare professionals, including nurses and doctors, for support in physical and mental health. Additionally, the platform facilitates care navigation, medication delivery, and referrals to specialists. By empowering employees to take charge of their health, Dialogue Health Technologies helps businesses create a healthier workforce, leading to increased productivity and overall employee satisfaction.
Borrowell
Series A in 2017
Borrowell Inc. is a financial technology company based in Toronto, Canada, founded in 2014. It specializes in offering a range of financial products and services, including personal loans, credit cards, and free credit scores. Borrowell operates an online marketplace-lending platform that provides Canadians with access to borrowing options and unsecured consumer loans. The company is dedicated to enhancing financial prosperity for its users by offering tools for credit education, personalized credit coaching, and AI-driven recommendations for financial products. By delivering resources such as credit monitoring and tailored options from marketplace partners, Borrowell aims to help customers secure low-interest loans and improve their overall financial well-being.
Element AI
Series A in 2017
Element AI Inc. is an artificial intelligence company based in Montreal, Canada, with an additional office in Toronto. Founded in 2016, Element AI specializes in providing AI solutions that help organizations identify opportunities for artificial intelligence and machine learning integration. The company operates an AI as a Service (AIaaS) platform, enabling businesses to launch and develop AI solutions in collaboration with large corporations. Its offerings span various industries, including insurance, banking, manufacturing, logistics, retail, and consumer packaged goods. Element AI emphasizes the operationalization of AI by delivering software products that enhance decision-making and improve business agility. The company also conducts research and development to advance AI technology and maintains partnerships with academic institutions to foster innovation. Through its systems integrator approach, Element AI assists organizations in implementing and commercializing AI solutions tailored to their specific needs.
SortSpoke
Seed Round in 2017
SortSpoke specializes in automating the extraction of data from documents, leveraging artificial intelligence to streamline processes that are typically manual and labor-intensive. By utilizing its cloud-based service, SortSpoke learns how users categorize their documents and the specific data they require, ultimately performing these tasks autonomously. This software significantly reduces labor costs associated with data entry by efficiently extracting information from unstructured documents, including text and tables. As a result, businesses benefit from minimized manual errors and shortened cycle times in their document processing operations.
SecureKey
Venture Round in 2010
SecureKey Technologies Inc. is an identity and authentication provider that facilitates secure and convenient access to online services for consumers. The company develops cloud-based identity networks that connect individuals with various online services, emphasizing privacy and security. Its offerings are designed for a range of sectors, including banking, government, healthcare, telecommunications, and utilities. Established in 2008 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, SecureKey also maintains offices in Boston, Washington D.C., and San Francisco. The firm collaborates with organizations like Digital Bazaar and is supported by notable investors such as Visa, MasterCard, and Intel Capital. By focusing on creating frictionless digital identity solutions, SecureKey enables organizations to meet the growing demand for secure online transactions.
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