Rhino Ventures

There is more to choosing an investor than selecting the term sheet with the highest valuation. Strategic capital, in its true form, extends the founding team’s capacity. That’s what we do at Rhino. We invest in companies where we can add tangible value. We’ve been on the other side of the table and appreciate the importance of funder and founder alignment. From startup, growth to exit; it is entrepreneurial ambition that drives value, not venture capitalists. We invest in individuals; trust and values fit are a centerpiece in every investment.

Jay Rhind

Partner

31 past transactions

Contact

Seed Round in 2022
Contact is the place where creatives manage their career and get paid.
Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies (MARZ) is a Tech company and VFX studio that focuses on pushing the boundaries of VFX on TV. Through proprietary AI solutions, GPU rendering and world-class talent, MARZ is dedicated to delivering innovative, feature-film quality VFX on TV timelines and to helping studios scale their content at a pace previously not possible. MARZ was recognized.

Side Door

Seed Round in 2021
Side Door is an online platform that connects artists and hosts to book shows in any location. Side Door offers flexible pricing, simple revenue splitting, audience management tools, automated payouts, and performance royalty management. Side Door contributes to the creation of a future in which live performance is accessible to all, building an equitable, diverse, and inclusive ecosystem.

Showbie

Series A in 2021
Showbie combines all of the essential tools for assignments, feedback, and communication in one easy-to-use platform. Showbie's features were designed with teachers and students in mind. Teachers can get set up and start using Showbie's powerful platform within minutes. Teachers who use Showbie love how it transforms their classrooms into engaging, collaborative, and organized learning environments. Showbie's suite of tools make it easy to give rich, differentiated feedback to students, so everyone gets the help they need to succeed. Showbie allows students to share files and ideas with each other, ensuring everyone is on the same page and encouraging collaboration. Showbie lets teachers work with their peers and easily engage with families. Teachers can set up groups to work directly with colleagues, share best practices, or discuss the needs of particular students. Parents can easily be part of the conversation too; teachers can set up groups just for families where they can post class updates and even permission slips. Because of its easy-to-use, intuitive design, it's no surprise that teachers love Showbie. A 2018 Showbie survey (http://ow.ly/T30r30l0H5j) found that 98% of teachers said it was easy to use and implement and 97% said it helped them improve feedback and speed up grading. With more than 3 million users worldwide, Showbie is poised to become the leading platform for the digital classroom.

FISPAN

Venture Round in 2020
FISPAN is the market leader in ERP-banking. Our turn-key platform makes it simple for banks to offer commercial banking services embedded in any business application. FISPAN powers best-in-class commercial banking experiences by removing friction and adding value to how the bank’s clients operate their business.

Wizebank

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Wizebank is a fintech and software service-based company. That is a VC-backed FinTech startup in the creator economy. Their mission is to help course creators unlock their full potential. And the team is arming creators with the software and financial services they need to more effectively manage and grow their empires.

Thinkific

Venture Round in 2020
Thinkific is a platform for individuals and businesses to create, market, sell, and deliver courses online. Businesses trust Thinkific to help them scale because Thinkific offers the easiest course technology, the most control over your courses, and the top support team in the industry. Thinkific powers online learning for over 50,000 course creators in 190 countries and in 20+ languages. Over 100+ million courses have been taken an $650 million generated on the platform.

Klue

Series A in 2020
Competitive Enablement for enterprise sales. Klue helps companies narrow their competitive revenue gap by collecting and curating intelligence from multiple sources (external and internal to the organization) and presenting organized, actionable insights. Revenue teams leverage these insights to tip competitive deals and protect clients from competitive attacks. Product marketers get superpowers to efficiently create, update and deliver differentiated messaging and content across the organization. Klue was founded in 2015 by serial entrepreneurs Jason Smith and Sarathy Naicker and has 200+ employees and 500+ clients across North America and Europe.

Showbie

Series A in 2020
Showbie combines all of the essential tools for assignments, feedback, and communication in one easy-to-use platform. Showbie's features were designed with teachers and students in mind. Teachers can get set up and start using Showbie's powerful platform within minutes. Teachers who use Showbie love how it transforms their classrooms into engaging, collaborative, and organized learning environments. Showbie's suite of tools make it easy to give rich, differentiated feedback to students, so everyone gets the help they need to succeed. Showbie allows students to share files and ideas with each other, ensuring everyone is on the same page and encouraging collaboration. Showbie lets teachers work with their peers and easily engage with families. Teachers can set up groups to work directly with colleagues, share best practices, or discuss the needs of particular students. Parents can easily be part of the conversation too; teachers can set up groups just for families where they can post class updates and even permission slips. Because of its easy-to-use, intuitive design, it's no surprise that teachers love Showbie. A 2018 Showbie survey (http://ow.ly/T30r30l0H5j) found that 98% of teachers said it was easy to use and implement and 97% said it helped them improve feedback and speed up grading. With more than 3 million users worldwide, Showbie is poised to become the leading platform for the digital classroom.

Curatio

Series A in 2020
Curatio enables payers, providers, researchers and pharmaceutical manufacturers to compliantly engage with patients on their own social networks. Used in 85 countries, available in 5 languages, Curatio has won numerous awards and recognition for its unique technical solution and its mission of No Patient Alone.

PeerBoard

Seed Round in 2020
PeerBoard is a plug and play community platform with a heavy focus on user experience and deep integrations, including our WordPress, Shopify and Thinkific plugins and rich SDK/API capabilities. Extend your website with a community space!

Fatigue Science

Series A in 2020
We provide our clients with the only technology for quantifying fatigue based on objective data. It allows companies and individuals to see and understand how fatigue is affecting their workplace safety, performance and productivity.

Aspect Biosystems

Series A in 2020
Aspect Biosystems is a biotechnology company developing bioprinted tissue therapeutics to transform how we treat disease. By combining its proprietary microfluidic 3D bioprinting technology, therapeutic cells, and materials science, Aspect is creating a pipeline of allogeneic cell-based tissue therapeutics to replace or repair damaged organ functions. The company is also partnering with leading researchers and industry innovators worldwide to tackle the biggest challenges in regenerative medicine.

FISPAN

Series A in 2019
FISPAN is the market leader in ERP-banking. Our turn-key platform makes it simple for banks to offer commercial banking services embedded in any business application. FISPAN powers best-in-class commercial banking experiences by removing friction and adding value to how the bank’s clients operate their business.

Edvisor.io

Seed Round in 2019
Edvisor.io increases access to global educational opportunities by seamlessly connecting schools and educational travel agencies via integrated web tools.

FISPAN

Venture Round in 2018
FISPAN is the market leader in ERP-banking. Our turn-key platform makes it simple for banks to offer commercial banking services embedded in any business application. FISPAN powers best-in-class commercial banking experiences by removing friction and adding value to how the bank’s clients operate their business.

Avenue HQ

Seed Round in 2018
We build and maintain the website and digital marketing for your realty business, so you can stay connected with your clients—and attract new ones. As a team of marketers, engineers, and designers, we work together to give REALTORS® something they’ve never had before: The chance to market themselves online, and stand out, supported by the knowledge and tools only a team of experts can provide.

Grow

Seed Round in 2017
Leading enterprise fintech platform, acquired by ATB Financial in November 2019. Grow's technology is powering a new generation of data-driven banking products and services, including digital personal loans, instant customer onboarding and account opening, advanced data analytics, and real-time compliance and identification tools. Grow was founded in 2014 and was acquired by ATB Financial in 2019.

Klue

Seed Round in 2017
Competitive Enablement for enterprise sales. Klue helps companies narrow their competitive revenue gap by collecting and curating intelligence from multiple sources (external and internal to the organization) and presenting organized, actionable insights. Revenue teams leverage these insights to tip competitive deals and protect clients from competitive attacks. Product marketers get superpowers to efficiently create, update and deliver differentiated messaging and content across the organization. Klue was founded in 2015 by serial entrepreneurs Jason Smith and Sarathy Naicker and has 200+ employees and 500+ clients across North America and Europe.

Thinkific

Series A in 2017
Thinkific is a platform for individuals and businesses to create, market, sell, and deliver courses online. Businesses trust Thinkific to help them scale because Thinkific offers the easiest course technology, the most control over your courses, and the top support team in the industry. Thinkific powers online learning for over 50,000 course creators in 190 countries and in 20+ languages. Over 100+ million courses have been taken an $650 million generated on the platform.

Pressboard

Seed Round in 2017
Pressboard, the premier analytics and reporting platform for branded content empower publishers and media companies to scale their content programs, accurately measure their success and delight their advertisers. With Pressboard, publishers including NBCUniversal, Hearst, DotDash, Bustle Media Group, and more can manage, measure, and report on branded content, native advertising, eCommerce, and social media in a single unified dashboard.

Beanworks

Series A in 2017
Beanworks is an accounts payable automation solution that helps companies eliminate paperwork and reduce invoice processing costs. Accounts payable (AP) is consistently ranked as the most frustrating and time-consuming part of accounting by finance professionals. As a company built by accountants for accountants, they empower accounting teams to succeed by automating AP - making it both simple and delightful. Beanworks is modernizing the entire AP process, from the purchase decision to invoice approval with electronic payments included in the experience.

Tutela

Seed Round in 2016
At Tutela we understand the importance of having the right information at the right time. We have developed a unique way of collecting significant amounts of mobile experience and usage data. Collaborating with application developers and industry professionals, we provide telecoms and enterprise mobile organisations with the means to make informed decisions and improve their mobile networks.

Sokanu

Seed Round in 2016
Sokanu is a platform that optimizes human capital. We started with a website, sokanu.com, that helps people find their perfect career. We are taking the unique science & technology we've built and are applying it to help companies understand & optimize their talent better.

Article

Series A in 2016
Article delivers beautifully designed modern furniture, with outstanding attention to detail, at fair prices.

Thinkific

Seed Round in 2016
Thinkific is a platform for individuals and businesses to create, market, sell, and deliver courses online. Businesses trust Thinkific to help them scale because Thinkific offers the easiest course technology, the most control over your courses, and the top support team in the industry. Thinkific powers online learning for over 50,000 course creators in 190 countries and in 20+ languages. Over 100+ million courses have been taken an $650 million generated on the platform.

ThinkCX

Seed Round in 2016
Among the billions of public social posts produced daily, a small fraction contain signals about the actions that a brand's customers are going to take. Our business concept has always been to enable companies to find, interpret, and act proactively on those signals.

eSportsPools

Seed Round in 2015
eSportsPools is an online esports fantasy pools and betting destination. It offers eSports fans the extra fun of picking players from their favourite games to make fantasy teams and win prizes. Players are able to securely and safely bet on fantasy esports including CSGO, LOL, OW, PUBG, and Dota2.

eSportsPools

Venture Round in 2013
eSportsPools is an online esports fantasy pools and betting destination. It offers eSports fans the extra fun of picking players from their favourite games to make fantasy teams and win prizes. Players are able to securely and safely bet on fantasy esports including CSGO, LOL, OW, PUBG, and Dota2.
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