Unicone Art
Seed Round in 2022
At Unicone Art, we offer high-quality art products such as Epoxy resin, Mica powder, Silicone mold-making kits, natural resin remover soap, and golden nuggets, for resin art, jewelry, geode paintings, and more.
Group Black
Venture Round in 2021
Group Black is a marketing and advertising company that provides a platform designed to enhance content delivery and promotional efforts. By addressing the pipeline problem within the advertising industry, Group Black facilitates innovative advertising solutions for brands, allowing them to engage with both established and emerging media companies. The company's mission emphasizes the importance of diversity, aiming to help businesses foster inclusive practices while effectively connecting with a broad range of consumers.
Overtime is a digital-first sports network targeting the next generation of fans. Based in New York City, it produces original content across various platforms, including YouTube, Snapchat, IGTV, Instagram, and TikTok. The company generates revenue through sponsorships, advertising, media rights, and merchandise sales.
Pyrowave Inc. is a Canadian company that specializes in advanced recycling technology solutions using microwave-based chemical processes to convert post-consumer and post-industrial plastics back into their molecular form, identical to virgin materials. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Oakville, Pyrowave has developed a patented high-power microwave catalytic depolymerization technology that stands at the forefront of the recycling industry. The company leases its innovative recycling machines and sells the high-value liquid products and materials generated during the recycling process. By facilitating the infinite regeneration of plastics, Pyrowave enables its clients, including municipal entities and private recyclers, to significantly reduce plastic waste and contribute to a circular plastic economy.
Locale is a residential hospitality and property management company that designs and operates furnished apartments for rent, offering bath amenities, fitness facilities, spacious living areas, fully equipped kitchens, and technology-enabled service to give travelers the comfort of residential living. In addition, Locale provides a property management software platform in the UK for commercial, residential, and mixed-use properties, with portals used by iconic developments and management companies across Europe to forecast trends and streamline operations.
Freightwalla
Series A in 2019
Freightwalla is a freight management platform designed to streamline global logistics operations. It provides a comprehensive suite of features, including shipment planning and costing, digital workflows, online document management, real-time tracking, and request for quotation management. The platform also offers sailing schedules, smart reporting, and analytics to enhance transparency and efficiency in the shipping and logistics sector. Freightwalla partners with over 60 shipping lines and serves more than 1,000 customers across more than 1,000 ports, aiming to improve visibility and simplify operations. Additionally, the company offers value-added services such as transportation, customs clearance, and trade finance, further supporting businesses in optimizing their logistics processes.
Drop is a consumer rewards platform that uses machine learning to match shoppers with over 400 partner brands, enabling them to earn points, discounts, and cashback on purchases. The service encourages repeat shopping by offering instant rewards and personalized offers. Headquartered in Toronto, Drop serves more than 4 million members across North America and the UK, aiming to improve everyday consumer experiences through its personalized commerce platform.
Zonetail
Venture Round in 2019
Zonetail provides a mobile platform connecting guests in hotels and residents in condominiums with their building's amenities and local services via personal mobile devices. Founded in Toronto, Canada in 2013.
Hyre
Venture Round in 2019
Hyre Inc. operates an online marketplace that connects event staff, such as bartenders and servers, with event organizers, including venues and planners. Founded in 2015 and based in Toronto, Canada, with an additional office in Ottawa, the company offers a platform that eliminates the need for traditional staffing agencies. This direct connection allows event organizers to hire staff at reduced costs while ensuring access to higher-quality personnel. The platform also features a performance rating system, enabling organizers to evaluate and select staff based on their qualifications. By streamlining the hiring process, Hyre Inc. provides a beneficial solution for both event organizers and event staff, allowing the latter to earn competitive wages for their services.
Chatter Research
Venture Round in 2019
Chatter Research Inc. is a company that specializes in providing a real-time customer research and feedback application tailored for the retail and hospitality sectors. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with an additional office in Mountain View, California, Chatter Research enables businesses to engage customers in conversational surveys via text message as they exit stores or restaurants. This innovative approach leverages AI-powered conversations to gather immediate feedback, allowing retailers and restaurants to enhance customer experiences and drive sales. As of January 2020, Chatter Research operates as a subsidiary of Stingray Business.
Marble is a San Francisco-based company that designs, develops, and manufactures robots specifically for last mile logistics applications. The company has created a fleet of intelligent courier robots capable of securely and reliably transporting various essential goods such as groceries, meals, and medicine. These robots are engineered to enhance efficiency in delivery processes, addressing the growing demand for effective logistics solutions.
Drop is a consumer rewards platform that uses machine learning to match shoppers with over 400 partner brands, enabling them to earn points, discounts, and cashback on purchases. The service encourages repeat shopping by offering instant rewards and personalized offers. Headquartered in Toronto, Drop serves more than 4 million members across North America and the UK, aiming to improve everyday consumer experiences through its personalized commerce platform.
Sourceress
Seed Round in 2017
Sourceress is an AI recruiter that is reinventing how people find jobs. With tailor-made machine learning models, they rigorously define what a company is looking for in a role, identify great candidates, and engage candidates with highly personalized introductions. Their process creates a stream of interested candidates that hiring managers are excited about more than 85% of the time.
Their mission is to accelerate human progress by helping people work in jobs that matter. They raised $3M from Y Combinator, Lightspeed Venture Partners and OpenAI researchers.
Devoted Health
Series A in 2017
Founded in 2017, Devoted Health is dedicated to enhancing the health and well-being of older Americans by offering integrated Medicare Advantage plans. They provide personalized care through a combination of local providers, virtual and in-home care, dedicated guides, and advanced technology.
Andela is a technology company that recruits, screens, trains, and manages software developers for organizations worldwide. Through its AI-powered talent platform, Andela Talent Cloud, it enables clients to hire individual engineers or fully managed teams with rapid onboarding and flexible engagement models, often at lower cost and faster delivery than traditional hiring. The company handles the groundwork for global staffing, including recruitment, onboarding, payroll, compliance, and ongoing talent management, allowing clients to scale engineering capacity as needed. Andela maintains a diverse, geographically distributed network of developers across numerous countries, with emphasis on Africa and other emerging markets. Its expertise spans application development, artificial intelligence, cloud and DevOps, data engineering, and related fields. Andela serves a range of customers from startups to established brands, helping them accelerate project delivery and access top technology talent.
Lending Loop
Venture Round in 2017
Lending Loop is Canada's first peer-to-peer lending marketplace that connects Canadian small businesses seeking capital with individual and institutional lenders. The online platform provides automated credit assessments and direct access to unsecured business loans, along with integrated banking features. By removing traditional intermediaries, Lending Loop aims to offer businesses accessible capital at fair rates while enabling lenders to earn fixed-income returns on Canadian lending opportunities. The company focuses on supporting local entrepreneurs and fostering growth through a streamlined, transparent online process.
Borrowell
Series A in 2017
Borrowell is a Toronto-based fintech that provides personal loans, unsecured consumer credit and an online lending marketplace. It offers free credit scores, credit education, and weekly monitoring, along with tools such as personalized credit coaching and AI-powered product recommendations to help customers access low-interest loans, manage debt, and improve financial well-being.
Greenhawk Resources
Venture Round in 2017
Greenland Resources Inc. is a Canadian junior resource company dedicated to the acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral properties in Greenland. Its primary focus is the Malmbjerg molybdenum project, a significant Climax-type pure molybdenum deposit located in eastern Greenland, which spans an area of 11 square kilometers and is situated near tidewater. Established in 2008 and headquartered in Toronto, the company was previously known as Primera Bioscience Research Inc. before rebranding in June 2014. Greenland Resources operates under the regulations of the Ontario Securities Commission, maintaining a commitment to advancing its mineral exploration initiatives in the region.