Panache Ventures
Panache Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 and based in Montréal, Canada, with additional offices in Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto, and San Francisco. The firm specializes in pre-seed and seed-stage investments, focusing on sectors that leverage Canada's strengths, including artificial intelligence, fintech, digital health, enterprise software, and blockchain. Panache Ventures aims to support innovative startups primarily within Canada, although it has a presence in the United States as well. The firm typically seeks to make initial investments of up to USD 1 million, targeting a diverse array of technology sectors such as cybersecurity, virtual reality, and data analytics.
Fraction is a technology-based lending platform focused on making residential real estate more affordable, flexible and liquid.
Snack is a video-first dating application that enables users to connect with potential matches through engaging video content. The platform allows individuals to create and post videos on a feed, facilitating real-time interactions and a more dynamic approach to online dating. By combining traditional matching algorithms with the ability to flirt-stream, Snack provides a unique environment for users to express themselves and connect creatively with others. This innovative approach to dating aims to enhance user engagement and foster meaningful connections in a modern digital landscape.
Fraction is a technology-based lending platform focused on making residential real estate more affordable, flexible and liquid.
Wize is an online education platform that offers University students across Canada instant access to the highest quality exam prep courses on the market. This cutting-edge platform offers students the tools and resources they need to prepare for their exams in less time, with less stress, at a lower cost than traditional resources. By supercharging the learning experience, Wize helps students to take their understanding of their course material to new heights. Taught by expert instructors and tailored to a specific class at a specific university, Wize provides students with the flexibility to learn at their own pace at any time and from anywhere. Whether a student falls behind, wants to get ahead or just needs more time with difficult concepts, with Wize - it’s just one click away.
FI.SPAN Services Inc. develops connecting application programming interface (API's) for the banking and financial industry. It offers Client Connectivity Suite, which helps banks to build and maintain live connections to their clients' enterprise resource planning (ERP), accounting, and treasury management systems; API Enablement Suite, which allows banks to put an API gateway for legacy payment capability, data enablement, reports and models, and fintech testing; Fintegration Suite, which helps to manage the secure exchange of data and services between banks and fintech companies; FI.CORE, which is a core platform includes a set of extension adapters, which are designed to quickly implement custom connectivity with a banks’ own infrastructure, clients business applications and external FinTech firms. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.
CTO.ai is a serverless infrastructure designed for the needs of fast moving development teams who want to measure what the business cares about. Our Commands, Pipelines, Services and Insights provide all of the tools you need to easily integrate your GitOps and ChatOps workflows, so that you can workflow smarter, not harder.
Beatdapp is a United States-based company founded in 2018 that develops music streaming software designed to assist labels and artists in tracking their music and collecting royalties. The company provides a tracking system that authenticates, verifies, and validates media streamed in real-time, addressing discrepancies between Digital Service Providers and rights holders. This technology increases royalty revenue for rights holders while reducing the legal risks associated with royalty disputes for Digital Service Providers. Beatdapp effectively functions as a comprehensive solution for accurately monitoring music play counts.
FI.SPAN Services Inc. develops connecting application programming interface (API's) for the banking and financial industry. It offers Client Connectivity Suite, which helps banks to build and maintain live connections to their clients' enterprise resource planning (ERP), accounting, and treasury management systems; API Enablement Suite, which allows banks to put an API gateway for legacy payment capability, data enablement, reports and models, and fintech testing; Fintegration Suite, which helps to manage the secure exchange of data and services between banks and fintech companies; FI.CORE, which is a core platform includes a set of extension adapters, which are designed to quickly implement custom connectivity with a banks’ own infrastructure, clients business applications and external FinTech firms. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.
ehsAI is a next wave compliance technology company that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to help organizations reduce the cost and risks of permitting and compliance. ehsAI is committed to integrity, diversity and innovation in all its transactions and developing disruptive solutions that transform environmental, health and safety and compliance management for business. ehsAI serves the technology, manufacturing, energy, chemical, construction and retail industries.
Sanctuary AI is an artificial general intelligence company founded in January 2018, and is based in Vancouver, B.C. Sanctuary's mission is to build synthetic humans – “synths” – that are indistinguishable from us physically, cognitively and emotionally. The company is structured to explore both cutting edge technology and the ethical issues that arise from creating human-like machines.
Wize is an online education platform that offers University students across Canada instant access to the highest quality exam prep courses on the market. This cutting-edge platform offers students the tools and resources they need to prepare for their exams in less time, with less stress, at a lower cost than traditional resources. By supercharging the learning experience, Wize helps students to take their understanding of their course material to new heights. Taught by expert instructors and tailored to a specific class at a specific university, Wize provides students with the flexibility to learn at their own pace at any time and from anywhere. Whether a student falls behind, wants to get ahead or just needs more time with difficult concepts, with Wize - it’s just one click away.
With the help of Machine Learning, Spocket is set to revolutionize the dropshipping market and aid online retailers compete with Amazon- by removing the need to hold inventory and erasing upfront costs for retailers. Spocket enables over 20,000 entrepreneurs across five continents to launch and scale their online stores. Be part of the revolutionary vision of Spocket to remove inventory from the online and physical retail by using the dropshipping model and fixing the $1.1 trillion issue called inventory distortion.
Dooly Research Ltd. is a Canadian company that specializes in developing an artificial intelligence-driven sales enablement platform designed to enhance the efficiency of sales teams. Founded in 2015, the Vancouver-based company offers software that automates the customer relationship management process by capturing, sharing, and organizing essential customer information. The platform facilitates the synchronization of digital notes, fields, and tasks directly with Salesforce, allowing sales and customer success teams to minimize time spent on administrative duties. By streamlining the flow of information from meetings and customer interactions, Dooly enables teams to focus more on closing sales and achieving core business objectives.