Portage

Portage Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Toronto, Canada, established in 2016 as the corporate venture capital arm of Sagard Holdings. The firm specializes in investing in early-stage, growth-stage, and later-stage companies within the financial technology sector. Portage Ventures is dedicated to identifying and supporting promising Canadian fintech companies that have the potential to achieve significant global impact. Through its strategic investments, the firm aims to foster innovation and development in the financial services industry.

Darwin, Ross S.

Principal

Hélène Falchier

Partner

Adam Felesky

CEO

Ricky Lai

Partner

Leo Liu

Senior Associate

Gabi Makari

Associate

Okereke, AJ

Principal

Juliette Souliman

Principal

Alex Tung

Associate

Past deals in Toronto

KOHO

Series D in 2022
KOHO Financial provides an application-based banking platform to simplify financial products available to everyone. Its platform helps users to complete their day-to-day banking operations while offering tools such as goals, cash flow projections, group spending, spending insights, and categorizations to let users manage their expenses and banking operations on the go. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.

Boosted.ai

Series B in 2022
Boosted.ai is an artificial intelligence company focused on improving portfolio management for the global financial industry through advanced machine learning techniques. Its web-based platform, Boosted Insights, allows portfolio managers to leverage sophisticated quantitative investing strategies without necessitating coding or data science expertise. By providing tools that automate and simplify the investment decision-making process, Boosted.ai enables financial professionals to conduct deep analyses of market data, thereby enhancing their ability to make informed investment choices. The company's innovative approach aims to increase returns for portfolio managers and financial firms, making advanced investment strategies accessible to a wider audience.

League

Series C in 2021
League is a platform technology company powering next-generation healthcare consumer experiences. League's healthcare CX platform creates personalized digital health experiences that drive measurable results.

KOHO

Series C in 2021
KOHO Financial provides an application-based banking platform to simplify financial products available to everyone. Its platform helps users to complete their day-to-day banking operations while offering tools such as goals, cash flow projections, group spending, spending insights, and categorizations to let users manage their expenses and banking operations on the go. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.

Borrowell

Series C in 2021
Borrowell Inc., founded in 2014 and based in Toronto, Canada, is a financial technology company that specializes in providing credit education and personal financial services. The company offers free credit scores, credit monitoring, and personalized financial product recommendations through its online marketplace-lending platform. Borrowell helps Canadians access various financial products, including personal loans, credit cards, and mortgages, while also providing tools for debt management and financial improvement. By integrating innovative digital solutions such as personalized credit coaching and AI-driven recommendations, Borrowell aims to enhance the financial well-being of its customers and promote responsible borrowing practices.

Boosted.ai

Series A in 2020
Boosted.ai is an artificial intelligence company focused on improving portfolio management for the global financial industry through advanced machine learning techniques. Its web-based platform, Boosted Insights, allows portfolio managers to leverage sophisticated quantitative investing strategies without necessitating coding or data science expertise. By providing tools that automate and simplify the investment decision-making process, Boosted.ai enables financial professionals to conduct deep analyses of market data, thereby enhancing their ability to make informed investment choices. The company's innovative approach aims to increase returns for portfolio managers and financial firms, making advanced investment strategies accessible to a wider audience.

League

Corporate Round in 2019
League is a platform technology company powering next-generation healthcare consumer experiences. League's healthcare CX platform creates personalized digital health experiences that drive measurable results.

Flybits

Series C in 2019
Flybits is the leading customer experience platform for the financial services sector, delivering personalization at scale. With the most advanced capabilities in the market, its enterprise-level solution brings relevant content, products, offers, and information to a bank’s digital channels based on what each individual customer needs in the moments that matter. With Flybits, banks are able to design, launch, and measure data-driven consumer experiences that deliver the right information to the right customer at the right time, while preserving their privacy. www.flybits.com

Borrowell

Series B in 2019
Borrowell Inc., founded in 2014 and based in Toronto, Canada, is a financial technology company that specializes in providing credit education and personal financial services. The company offers free credit scores, credit monitoring, and personalized financial product recommendations through its online marketplace-lending platform. Borrowell helps Canadians access various financial products, including personal loans, credit cards, and mortgages, while also providing tools for debt management and financial improvement. By integrating innovative digital solutions such as personalized credit coaching and AI-driven recommendations, Borrowell aims to enhance the financial well-being of its customers and promote responsible borrowing practices.

KOHO

Series B in 2019
KOHO Financial provides an application-based banking platform to simplify financial products available to everyone. Its platform helps users to complete their day-to-day banking operations while offering tools such as goals, cash flow projections, group spending, spending insights, and categorizations to let users manage their expenses and banking operations on the go. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.

d1g1t

Series A in 2018
d1g1t is a digital wealth management platform powered by analytics that offers advanced, transparent portfolio management services to professional advisers and their individual investors. The platform of the company uses analytics and risk management tools to provide portfolio management services and features such as client management, monitoring and managing the adviser's business growth, historical performance and future risk analysis, onboarding solutions, and portfolio tracking.

Clearco

Series A in 2018
Clearco is an online financial platform that specializes in providing growth capital to e-commerce and B2B companies. It leverages proprietary software and data science models to identify funding opportunities for high-growth businesses. Clearco offers financing in exchange for a share of future revenue, allowing startups to access capital without diluting their equity. This model enables entrepreneurs to focus on scaling their operations while repaying the funding based on their revenue performance.

Integrate.ai

Series A in 2018
Integrate.ai Inc. is a Toronto-based company that develops artificial intelligence software aimed at helping enterprises leverage machine learning to drive customer engagement and revenue growth. Founded in 2017, Integrate.ai offers software-as-a-service (SaaS) products that facilitate the creation of federated machine learning models using siloed data in secure environments. Its flagship product, Powerflow, serves as an advanced end-to-end platform that enables collaboration among organizations in various sectors, including healthcare, financial services, academia, technology, and media. By integrating machine learning with social media, alternative data, and first-party data, Integrate.ai aims to enhance customer interaction and resolve business challenges, ultimately improving customer outcomes across industries.

Drop

Series A in 2018
Drop is a personalized commerce platform that enhances consumer experiences by connecting users with over 400 partner brands to earn rewards for their purchases. The platform utilizes machine learning to tailor offers and recommendations, ensuring that consumers receive relevant rewards at optimal times. With a focus on serving Millennials and Generation Z, Drop facilitates a seamless shopping experience, allowing users to earn points on both online and offline transactions, as well as through survey completions. Headquartered in Toronto, Drop has expanded its reach to over 4 million members across North America and the UK, aiming to improve everyday consumer lives through its innovative e-commerce and fintech solutions.

KOHO

Venture Round in 2017
KOHO Financial provides an application-based banking platform to simplify financial products available to everyone. Its platform helps users to complete their day-to-day banking operations while offering tools such as goals, cash flow projections, group spending, spending insights, and categorizations to let users manage their expenses and banking operations on the go. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.

Borrowell

Series A in 2017
Borrowell Inc., founded in 2014 and based in Toronto, Canada, is a financial technology company that specializes in providing credit education and personal financial services. The company offers free credit scores, credit monitoring, and personalized financial product recommendations through its online marketplace-lending platform. Borrowell helps Canadians access various financial products, including personal loans, credit cards, and mortgages, while also providing tools for debt management and financial improvement. By integrating innovative digital solutions such as personalized credit coaching and AI-driven recommendations, Borrowell aims to enhance the financial well-being of its customers and promote responsible borrowing practices.

Wave

Series D in 2017
Wave makes running a small business better by providing free accounting, invoicing, affordable credit card processing (payments) and payroll. Over 3 million small business owners, in more than 200 countries around the world, rely on WaveApps to run their business. Wave was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Flybits

Series B in 2017
Flybits is the leading customer experience platform for the financial services sector, delivering personalization at scale. With the most advanced capabilities in the market, its enterprise-level solution brings relevant content, products, offers, and information to a bank’s digital channels based on what each individual customer needs in the moments that matter. With Flybits, banks are able to design, launch, and measure data-driven consumer experiences that deliver the right information to the right customer at the right time, while preserving their privacy. www.flybits.com

Street Context

Venture Round in 2017
Street Context is the only email intelligence software purpose-built for the pace and scale of global capital markets. We power the email infrastructure that connects capital markets. In this industry, deals are won and lost in the inbox within minutes, but CRMs and email marketing tools don’t provide the timely, streamlined data firms need to act first and fast. Our software enables buy- and sell-side teams to cut through the email chaos so they can focus on high-value conversations. We’re not just analytics — we’re the Street's call list. With timely, streamlined data, Street Context infuses insight into every outreach, enabling buy- and sell-side teams to target high-value conversations first and fast. That’s why the world’s sharpest capital markets firms — 150 of them across 21 countries — leverage our email intelligence to maximize their time, keep the intel flowing, and make every conversation count.

Drop

Seed Round in 2017
Drop is a personalized commerce platform that enhances consumer experiences by connecting users with over 400 partner brands to earn rewards for their purchases. The platform utilizes machine learning to tailor offers and recommendations, ensuring that consumers receive relevant rewards at optimal times. With a focus on serving Millennials and Generation Z, Drop facilitates a seamless shopping experience, allowing users to earn points on both online and offline transactions, as well as through survey completions. Headquartered in Toronto, Drop has expanded its reach to over 4 million members across North America and the UK, aiming to improve everyday consumer lives through its innovative e-commerce and fintech solutions.

Zensurance

Seed Round in 2016
Zensurance Inc. is an online commercial insurance brokerage based in Toronto, Canada, that specializes in providing insurance solutions for startups and small businesses. Founded in 2016, the company offers a variety of insurance products, including business, contractors, technology, and tenants insurance. By utilizing data and analytics, Zensurance identifies common risks within various industries to create tailored insurance packages that meet the specific needs of its clients. This approach allows small business owners to navigate the insurance process more efficiently, enabling them to learn about their requirements and purchase insurance online within minutes, without the hassle of lengthy forms or phone calls. Zensurance collaborates with leading insurance companies and industry experts to deliver advanced insurance solutions, enhancing the user experience and making insurance more accessible to its clients.

Wealthsimple

Series A in 2015
Wealthsimple Financial Inc. provides digital investment advisory services across Canada and operates additional offices in Brooklyn, New York, and London, United Kingdom. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Toronto, the company offers a range of financial tools designed to help individuals grow and manage their wealth. Wealthsimple builds diversified portfolios of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on behalf of its clients, enabling them to achieve their financial goals without the high fees and account minimums typical of traditional investment management. Additionally, Wealthsimple features on-demand financial planning solutions and a hybrid savings and spending product known as Wealthsimple Cash. The company focuses on making financial advice accessible and affordable, supported by a team of experienced financial professionals. As of September 2020, Wealthsimple operates as a subsidiary of Purpose Advisor Solutions Inc.
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