Pioneer Fund

Pioneer Fund is a venture capital firm founded in 2017, with its headquarters in Toronto, Canada. The firm focuses on early-stage investments and is particularly tied to the Y Combinator network, comprising over 420 alumni from the accelerator program. Pioneer Fund targets a diverse range of sectors, including consumer products, financial services, information technology, advanced manufacturing, blockchain, life sciences, gaming, artificial intelligence, and education technology, among others. By leveraging its connection to Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund aims to support innovative startups with high growth potential across various industries.

Amitav Chakravartty

Venture Partner

Bryant Chou

Senior Venture Partner

Mike Dilworth

CFO and General Partner

Jason Gray

Founder and Managing General Partner

Ranvir Gujral

Venture Partner

Beth Kolko

Senior Venture Partner

Evan Lodge

Venture Partner

Parthi Loganathan

Venture Partner

Matthew McDonald

Venture Partner

Dave Messina

General Partner

Victor Ng

Venture Partner

Eric Norman

Visiting General Partner

Will Olsen

Venture Partner

Alexander Strunkin

Venture Partner

Jonathan Tang

Senior Venture Partner

Kitch Wilson

Venture Partner

Past deals in Business Intelligence

Henry

Seed Round in 2025
Henry is an AI copilot for commercial real estate brokers that integrates internal and external data to quickly generate deal decks.

Suger

Series A in 2025
Suger is a developer of a management platform that facilitates the sale and co-selling of software as a service (SaaS) products across multiple cloud marketplaces, including AWS, Azure, GCP, Red Hat, Snowflake, and Databricks. The platform streamlines the management of product listings, offers, contracts, metering, and billing, allowing businesses to efficiently handle the entire lifecycle of their contracts, including renewals, plan changes, and upselling. By providing ongoing maintenance and operational support post-integration, Suger enables companies to enhance their B2B sales processes in a seamless and effective manner, ultimately driving growth in a multi-cloud environment.

Circleback.

Seed Round in 2024
Circleback is a software development company that focuses on improving meeting productivity through its innovative application. This application automatically transcribes meetings, generates actionable insights, and creates follow-up emails, helping professionals stay organized and efficient. By streamlining the process of capturing and managing meeting outcomes, Circleback enables users to save time and concentrate on their core responsibilities.

Henry

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Henry is an AI copilot for commercial real estate brokers that integrates internal and external data to quickly generate deal decks.

Hamming AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Hamming AI is an experimentation platform that helps teams build reliable AI products.

Agentnoon

Seed Round in 2024
Agentnoon is a developer of an innovative workforce planning tool that streamlines organizational design and headcount management for businesses. The software offers a centralized view of critical headcount data, including salaries, benefits, and performance reviews, allowing companies to make informed decisions regarding budgeting and compensation. By integrating with over 100 HRIS, payroll, and ATS tools, Agentnoon becomes a reliable source for people data, minimizing errors and enhancing hiring decisions. The platform is designed for ease of use, with a simple signup process and quick setup that can be completed in under 15 minutes. Additionally, Agentnoon is known for its exceptional customer support, resolving approximately 80% of inquiries within a day and facilitating onboarding in less than 24 hours. This efficiency helps organizations save an average of 7.5% on their headcount budgets annually, enabling them to grow confidently and responsively toward their business goals.

ProhostAI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
ProhostAI specializes in developing an AI-driven operating system for vacation rental and property management businesses. Their platform automates key aspects of communication, maintenance, and financial management, aiming to boost efficiency, lower operational costs, and elevate the experience for both property managers and tenants.

Danswer

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Danswer is an AI-powered assistant that helps companies efficiently locate information by integrating seamlessly with their tools and documents. The company specializes in creating custom answer bots tailored to the specific needs of different teams, utilizing advanced embedding models alongside keyword-based algorithms. This technology allows Danswer's clients to access relevant documents across various sources, streamlining the process of finding necessary information without unnecessary complexity. By providing a user-friendly interface, Danswer aims to enhance productivity and facilitate better decision-making within organizations.

Octolane AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Octolane AI is an artificial intelligence platform focused on enhancing customer relationship management (CRM) software through advanced data processing capabilities. The company's technology is designed to analyze and manage large datasets across various sectors, including healthcare and sales. By leveraging AI, Octolane AI enables businesses to efficiently gather information from public sources, perform multi-layered cross-checking, and conduct thorough data cleaning and analysis on billions of data rows. This approach allows organizations to make informed decisions based on real-time insights, ultimately improving their sales processes and customer interactions.

CircleBack

Venture Round in 2024
CircleBack, Inc. is a technology company based in Vienna, Virginia, focused on improving contact data accuracy for business consumers. Founded in 2008, the company develops mobile contact intelligence applications that streamline the management of address books across various devices. Its flagship product, CircleBack, uses a patented data engine to provide real-time updates on connections, such as job changes and new contact information, directly to users' mobile address books and customer relationship management systems. Additionally, CircleBack offers tools like ContactSaver, which converts email signatures into contacts for Gmail, and ScanBizCards, enabling users to digitize business cards. The Cleanup Suite helps refine contact lists by removing duplicates. CircleBack aims to enhance productivity by ensuring that professionals and businesses can maintain accurate and up-to-date connections.

Thorntale

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Thorntale is a technology company specializing in data storytelling software. It offers an online presentation platform designed to simplify data visualization and narrative creation. The software provides pre-designed templates and supports multiple presentation formats, allowing users to directly connect charts and tables to their data sources, enhancing the storytelling process.

Risotto

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Risotto is an AI-powered platform focused on enhancing IT support through automation and chat-based interactions. The company develops a ChatOps solution that facilitates instant resolution of IT support requests, thereby improving efficiency and security for businesses. By providing 24/7 automated access to information technology support, Risotto allows organizations to streamline their IT operations and significantly reduce resolution times. This innovative approach to IT help desk services aims to enhance the overall quality of support provided to users, ensuring that businesses can operate smoothly and securely.

Suger

Seed Round in 2023
Suger is a developer of a management platform that facilitates the sale and co-selling of software as a service (SaaS) products across multiple cloud marketplaces, including AWS, Azure, GCP, Red Hat, Snowflake, and Databricks. The platform streamlines the management of product listings, offers, contracts, metering, and billing, allowing businesses to efficiently handle the entire lifecycle of their contracts, including renewals, plan changes, and upselling. By providing ongoing maintenance and operational support post-integration, Suger enables companies to enhance their B2B sales processes in a seamless and effective manner, ultimately driving growth in a multi-cloud environment.

Avoca

Seed Round in 2023
Avoca specializes in developing a client communication platform that supports business owners by allowing them to focus on their primary operations. The platform facilitates inbound communication through calls, texts, and emails, while also managing outbound interactions such as booking reminders, review requests, and follow-ups. By leveraging personalized artificial intelligence reception services, Avoca enhances the efficiency of customer communications, thereby helping businesses streamline their processes and improve client engagement.

Dialect

Seed Round in 2023
Dialect is a platform that provides assistance to the enterprise data warehouse. Questa runs business teams with query, visualization, and action of data with natural language. Questa was founded in 2022 and was headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Freshpaint

Series A in 2022
Freshpaint is a data platform that simplifies the collection and analysis of customer data to enhance marketing efforts. It automates the tracking of user behavior, such as clicks and page views, through an intuitive point-and-click interface or by integrating code. This capability allows businesses to seamlessly connect their customer data to various marketing and analytics tools with minimal effort. By doing so, Freshpaint enables product, data, and growth teams to gather essential behavioral insights necessary for improving products, driving customer engagement, and enhancing retention strategies. Co-founded by Michael Malis and Steven Fitzsimmons, Freshpaint aims to alleviate the burdens of manual data handling, allowing engineering teams to focus on product development.

Paperplane

Seed Round in 2022
Paperplane offers a platform that assists builders, plumbers, and timber merchants in managing credit risk by predicting customer defaults more than four weeks in advance of any credit report or county court judgment. Additionally, the company provides an online sales recording solution that captures video and audio calls, converting them into concise summaries and reports. This functionality streamlines the process of generating insights from customer interactions, reducing the need for manual data entry and improving pipeline visibility. By enabling businesses to access essential information efficiently, Paperplane helps organizations enhance their decision-making and operational effectiveness.

Integration Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Integration Labs is a data integration platform that simplifies access to customers' accounting, e-commerce, and payment data for businesses. The platform offers a well-documented Unified API, allowing product teams to efficiently read and write data across more than 20 platforms, including popular services like Quickbooks, Shopify, and Stripe. Companies utilize Integration Labs to automate accounting processes, underwrite credit risk, generate valuable business insights, and develop new business tools. By prioritizing safety and reliability, Integration Labs enables organizations to streamline their operations and enhance decision-making capabilities.

Cogram

Seed Round in 2022
Cogram is an artificial intelligence startup focused on enhancing human-AI collaboration through its innovative platform designed for virtual meetings. The company offers a solution that automatically generates meeting transcripts and transforms them into concise, actionable summaries and bullet-point notes. This functionality helps teams efficiently capture and track key points discussed during meetings, thereby streamlining workflows and improving productivity. Having participated in Y Combinator, Cogram is supported by prominent venture capitalists in Silicon Valley and is actively seeking software engineers to contribute to its mission of optimizing workplace efficiency through AI.

Axis

Venture Round in 2022
Axis develops a government data platform designed to understand the political crisis, government reshuffle, and new regulations in markets. Its platform easily finds and follows policy-makers and regulators, evaluates the information relevant to decision-making, and offers macro and sector insights.

Validere

Series B in 2022
Validere Technologies Inc. is a Toronto-based company that specializes in providing critical information about liquids through innovative measurement, reporting, and verification solutions. Founded in 2015, Validere develops portable devices, including the Validere Identifier, which assesses the hazardous nature of liquids by referencing a comprehensive library. Additionally, the company offers EDGE Connect, a platform that facilitates secure connections between buyers and sellers, enabling the discovery of arbitrage opportunities. Validere's main focus is on liquid fingerprinting, industrial process monitoring, and optimizing logistics within the energy sector. By delivering accessible and verifiable testing data, Validere aids organizations in making informed business decisions and enhances the accuracy of crude oil testing, ensuring accountability and quality across operations. The company's expertise in emissions management and tracking further positions it as a valuable partner for energy companies seeking to improve their financial and environmental performance.

Awesomic

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Awesomic is a platform that connects businesses with vetted designers instantly, streamlining the design process. Companies subscribe to a flat monthly fee, which grants them access to the platform's features, including task creation and the ability to work with multiple designers on either a freelance or dedicated basis. The platform facilitates efficient collaboration by allowing businesses to book calls with designers and receive project results every business day, enabling them to meet their design objectives effectively and on an ad-hoc basis.

Aviato

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Aviato is an online platform designed to facilitate the sourcing, qualification, and engagement of early-stage startups. It offers a unique approach to venture funding by allowing clients to submit video pitches, which can be reviewed by scouts and associates, streamlining the investment process from application to meeting scheduling. This automation eliminates the need for personal introductions, saving investors time while helping them discover promising investment opportunities. With a robust and frequently updated dataset, Aviato provides actionable insights that help users uncover previously overlooked founders and companies, positioning itself as an essential tool in the startup investment landscape.

Anakin

Seed Round in 2021
Anakin specializes in competitive intelligence software tailored for retailers and brands, focusing on e-commerce. The company offers global coverage of real-time product assortments and pricing data from over 100 million stock-keeping units (SKUs) across various e-commerce platforms. By leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning, Anakin automates the tracking and categorization of competitors' offerings, allowing clients to efficiently gather and analyze web data. This capability aids retailers and brands in understanding their competition's strategies, ultimately enhancing their decision-making processes in the market.

Convictional

Series A in 2021
Convictional, Inc. is a Toronto-based company founded in 2017 that operates a multi-channel B2B e-commerce platform aimed at high-growth suppliers. The platform provides a range of services, including electronic data interchange, wholesale integrations, dropship automation, and order financing, facilitating seamless transactions between suppliers and retailers. By integrating various business models such as drop-ship, marketplace, and wholesale, Convictional's technology enables enterprises, B2C retailers, and B2B distributors to efficiently source, onboard, and transact with suppliers. The company addresses the Decision Context Problem, which hinders business performance by misaligning knowledge and objectives within organizations, thereby enhancing decision-making processes and collaboration in the age of AI.

Pry Financials

Seed Round in 2021
Pry Financials is a financial planning platform that offers small businesses an alternative to traditional spreadsheets. The platform integrates various financial tools to provide real-time insights into budget versus actual performance. Pry's software enables users to manage their hiring plans, project cash flows, and model different financial scenarios within a user-friendly visual environment. This functionality allows businesses to efficiently track their budgets, optimize financial models, and monitor cash runway, facilitating better decision-making and financial management.

Freshpaint

Seed Round in 2020
Freshpaint is a data platform that simplifies the collection and analysis of customer data to enhance marketing efforts. It automates the tracking of user behavior, such as clicks and page views, through an intuitive point-and-click interface or by integrating code. This capability allows businesses to seamlessly connect their customer data to various marketing and analytics tools with minimal effort. By doing so, Freshpaint enables product, data, and growth teams to gather essential behavioral insights necessary for improving products, driving customer engagement, and enhancing retention strategies. Co-founded by Michael Malis and Steven Fitzsimmons, Freshpaint aims to alleviate the burdens of manual data handling, allowing engineering teams to focus on product development.

Aspire

Series A in 2019
Aspire is a finance operating system based in Singapore, catering to growing businesses in Southeast Asia. Founded in 2018, the company offers a comprehensive suite of services that includes business accounts for cross-border operations, corporate cards, and automated invoice processing, all integrated with financial management software. Aspire also provides an incorporation service known as Aspire Kickstart, designed specifically for Singaporean companies. By delivering efficient and transparent banking solutions, Aspire enables clients to manage their bank accounts, credit cards, invoicing, and expenses through a unified platform, facilitating improved cash management and informed business decisions.

Torch

Series A in 2019
Torch is a leadership development platform with integrated coaching, software, and feedback to raise high performers to the next level. It was founded by a team of executive coaches and experienced psychologists who are passionate about helping senior leaders perform at their highest level. Torch is on a mission to empower leaders to build high growth, high-performance cultures by building the awareness and skills required to manage and lead effectively. Our proven model blends human intelligence and digital technology to accelerate talent development and deliver measurable leadership outcomes.

Convictional

Seed Round in 2019
Convictional, Inc. is a Toronto-based company founded in 2017 that operates a multi-channel B2B e-commerce platform aimed at high-growth suppliers. The platform provides a range of services, including electronic data interchange, wholesale integrations, dropship automation, and order financing, facilitating seamless transactions between suppliers and retailers. By integrating various business models such as drop-ship, marketplace, and wholesale, Convictional's technology enables enterprises, B2C retailers, and B2B distributors to efficiently source, onboard, and transact with suppliers. The company addresses the Decision Context Problem, which hinders business performance by misaligning knowledge and objectives within organizations, thereby enhancing decision-making processes and collaboration in the age of AI.

Aspire

Seed Round in 2018
Aspire is a finance operating system based in Singapore, catering to growing businesses in Southeast Asia. Founded in 2018, the company offers a comprehensive suite of services that includes business accounts for cross-border operations, corporate cards, and automated invoice processing, all integrated with financial management software. Aspire also provides an incorporation service known as Aspire Kickstart, designed specifically for Singaporean companies. By delivering efficient and transparent banking solutions, Aspire enables clients to manage their bank accounts, credit cards, invoicing, and expenses through a unified platform, facilitating improved cash management and informed business decisions.

Worklytics

Seed Round in 2018
Worklytics is a company that specializes in analytics technology and services aimed at enhancing workforce productivity and collaboration. Founded in 2015 and based in New York, Worklytics offers a range of tools, including People Analytics, which connects productivity tools and provides insights into how teams allocate their time, communicate, and collaborate. The company’s Employee Feedback product allows organizations to gather and analyze feedback on skills and performance while automating processes like 360-degree reviews. Additionally, Worklytics addresses various aspects of employee engagement, retention risk, and performance management through continuous feedback systems and organizational assessments. Its advanced analytical software leverages machine learning to deliver real-time insights into individual and team performance, ultimately helping organizations foster exceptional workplace cultures that attract and retain talent.

Torch

Seed Round in 2017
Torch is a leadership development platform with integrated coaching, software, and feedback to raise high performers to the next level. It was founded by a team of executive coaches and experienced psychologists who are passionate about helping senior leaders perform at their highest level. Torch is on a mission to empower leaders to build high growth, high-performance cultures by building the awareness and skills required to manage and lead effectively. Our proven model blends human intelligence and digital technology to accelerate talent development and deliver measurable leadership outcomes.
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