StandUp Ventures

StandUp is led by a team of experienced investors who have assembled a diverse advisory committee. The advisory committee is comprised of successful founders, venture investors and other strategic mentors who will provide high touch support to the entrepreneurs. StandUp Ventures catalyzes strong deal flow across Canada from our network and syndicate seed rounds with Angels and US VCs. We believe that diverse teams make strong business sense and there is a gap in the marketplace that we are uniquely positioned to address. Our decision to create StandUp Ventures Fund was quickly greeted with strong interest. We are delighted to have the opportunity to work with BDC to address this gap while increasing access to capital for women-led businesses which remain proportionately underfunded.
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Lauren Epstein

Principal

Lucas Perlman

Senior Associate

31 past transactions

Sampler

Series A in 2019
At Sampler, we help consumer packaged good brands of all sizes and categories deliver physical samples to digitally targeted consumers. Our turnkey solution helps brands gather consumer feedback and demographic insights that will increase successful trial and in-turn conversion rates. Using Sampler, brands no longer need to hand out samples at random, and can get product into the right hands. We call it Direct to Consumer Product Sampling.

ODAIA

Series B in 2023
ODAIA Intelligence Inc. develops an artificial intelligence based customer engagement analysis platform. The company offers a software as a service (SaaS) and cloud based platform, ODAIA, which provides analysis of customer engagement behavior through data analytics, data process mining, machine learning, prediction algorithms, and customer journey mapping tools. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Bridgit Inc.

Venture Round in 2020
Bridgit Inc. develops and provides construction-project management solutions. The company offers Bridgit Bench, a construction resource planning and workforce management tool; and Bridgit Field, an inspection, task, and communication management solution. It caters to contractors and developers. Bridgit Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Kitchener, Canada.

Supportbench Services Inc.

Seed Round in 2022
Supportbench is a customer service platform that helps companies deliver an amazing customer experience. Supportbench unlocks the potential of support teams by giving them a canvas to create and execute their vision of how best to support their customers.

My Intelligent Machines

Seed Round in 2021
MIMs, a Montreal-based SAAS company was founded in June 2016 by Sarah Jenna (CEO), Mickaël Camus (CTO) and Abdoulaye Baniré Diallo (CSO). MIMs mission is to provide Biopharma and Agtech companies with AI-powered systems biology software for population stratification, target and biomarker discovery to help them develop a more efficient and personalized medicine and agriculture.

ODAIA

Seed Round in 2020
ODAIA Intelligence Inc. develops an artificial intelligence based customer engagement analysis platform. The company offers a software as a service (SaaS) and cloud based platform, ODAIA, which provides analysis of customer engagement behavior through data analytics, data process mining, machine learning, prediction algorithms, and customer journey mapping tools. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Tealbook, Inc.

Series B in 2021
Tealbook, Inc. develops and operates an online supplier knowledge management and procurement platform. The company’s platform offers up-to-date, credible information from suppliers that facilitates teams to identify qualified suppliers for specific needs and collaborate with stakeholders on supplier information and searches. Its platform centralizes and consolidates supplier-shared information, such as company name, contact information, product or service offerings, a brief capabilities presentation, social media feeds, diversity status and certification forms, public client recommendations, and aggregated intelligence from industry peers; and client supplier intelligence, including vendor master, preferred suppliers list, other supplier status listings, legal status and optional secure contract upload, relationships with internal colleagues, and shared notes. It integrates with ERP systems, spend management systems, E-sourcing tools, contract management systems, and portals. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Bridgit Inc.

Series B in 2021
Bridgit Inc. develops and provides construction-project management solutions. The company offers Bridgit Bench, a construction resource planning and workforce management tool; and Bridgit Field, an inspection, task, and communication management solution. It caters to contractors and developers. Bridgit Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Kitchener, Canada.

Nudge Rewards

Series A in 2017
Nudge Rewards provides a mobile solution for retail, foodservice, and hospitality brands looking to measurably impact frontline team performance. With an employee app and content management system, brands can leverage Nudge Rewards to engage, educate, and ultimately reward frontline managers and employees to drive company performance. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, their customers include global brands such as Rogers Communications, Compass Group, Golf Town, Samsung and Choice Hotels. For more information visit: nudgerewards.com.

ODAIA

Series A in 2022
ODAIA Intelligence Inc. develops an artificial intelligence based customer engagement analysis platform. The company offers a software as a service (SaaS) and cloud based platform, ODAIA, which provides analysis of customer engagement behavior through data analytics, data process mining, machine learning, prediction algorithms, and customer journey mapping tools. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Arteria AI

Series A in 2021
Arteria AI applies artificial intelligence to the drafting, negotiation, and analysis of contracts.

Disco

Seed Round in 2021
Disco is a platform for creators to build and scale their learning empire easily in one place. Our vision for learning leaves the industrial age behind and looks to a world of lifelong learning, that's live, with peers, led by creators we trust and accessible from anywhere.

Tealbook, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Tealbook, Inc. develops and operates an online supplier knowledge management and procurement platform. The company’s platform offers up-to-date, credible information from suppliers that facilitates teams to identify qualified suppliers for specific needs and collaborate with stakeholders on supplier information and searches. Its platform centralizes and consolidates supplier-shared information, such as company name, contact information, product or service offerings, a brief capabilities presentation, social media feeds, diversity status and certification forms, public client recommendations, and aggregated intelligence from industry peers; and client supplier intelligence, including vendor master, preferred suppliers list, other supplier status listings, legal status and optional secure contract upload, relationships with internal colleagues, and shared notes. It integrates with ERP systems, spend management systems, E-sourcing tools, contract management systems, and portals. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Acerta

Series A in 2020
Acerta is transforming quality control by leveraging artificial intelligence to help automakers get complex products to market faster and with fewer defects. Our machine learning models are forged from industry experience and driven by data, enabling Acerta’s clients to locate the earliest indicators of future product failures. From reducing scrap and rework rates to accelerating root cause analysis, we provide automotive engineers with the tools to improve throughput and profits.

Tealbook, Inc.

Series A in 2021
Tealbook, Inc. develops and operates an online supplier knowledge management and procurement platform. The company’s platform offers up-to-date, credible information from suppliers that facilitates teams to identify qualified suppliers for specific needs and collaborate with stakeholders on supplier information and searches. Its platform centralizes and consolidates supplier-shared information, such as company name, contact information, product or service offerings, a brief capabilities presentation, social media feeds, diversity status and certification forms, public client recommendations, and aggregated intelligence from industry peers; and client supplier intelligence, including vendor master, preferred suppliers list, other supplier status listings, legal status and optional secure contract upload, relationships with internal colleagues, and shared notes. It integrates with ERP systems, spend management systems, E-sourcing tools, contract management systems, and portals. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Coconut Software

Series A in 2019
Our cloud based, enterprise level appointment scheduling and visitor management platform combines your on-location and digital channels, providing self-service booking and curbside pickup, online and physical queuing, wait time tracking, callback requests and virtual meeting support as well as contact center integration.

Aya Payments

Seed Round in 2020
Aya Payments, Inc., a healthcare fintech company, develops healthcare spending solutions for administering health benefits and adjudicating claims. It offers novaHSA that accesses, manages, and monitors healthcare costs; and Dynamic Ledgering that provides payment, deposit, lending, and investment products for fin-tech companies. It serves employees and their dependents. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Nudge Rewards

Series B in 2019
Nudge Rewards provides a mobile solution for retail, foodservice, and hospitality brands looking to measurably impact frontline team performance. With an employee app and content management system, brands can leverage Nudge Rewards to engage, educate, and ultimately reward frontline managers and employees to drive company performance. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, their customers include global brands such as Rogers Communications, Compass Group, Golf Town, Samsung and Choice Hotels. For more information visit: nudgerewards.com.

ODAIA

Seed Round in 2019
ODAIA Intelligence Inc. develops an artificial intelligence based customer engagement analysis platform. The company offers a software as a service (SaaS) and cloud based platform, ODAIA, which provides analysis of customer engagement behavior through data analytics, data process mining, machine learning, prediction algorithms, and customer journey mapping tools. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Bridgit Inc.

Series A in 2019
Bridgit Inc. develops and provides construction-project management solutions. The company offers Bridgit Bench, a construction resource planning and workforce management tool; and Bridgit Field, an inspection, task, and communication management solution. It caters to contractors and developers. Bridgit Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Kitchener, Canada.

Aya Payments

Seed Round in 2019
Aya Payments, Inc., a healthcare fintech company, develops healthcare spending solutions for administering health benefits and adjudicating claims. It offers novaHSA that accesses, manages, and monitors healthcare costs; and Dynamic Ledgering that provides payment, deposit, lending, and investment products for fin-tech companies. It serves employees and their dependents. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Emovi

Series C in 2019
Emovi is dedicated to providing the highest quality, most technologically advanced products for knee joint assessment to restore patient quality of life. they are a company of knowledgeable, dedicated team members committed to innovation in healthcare.

AmacaThera Inc

Series A in 2021
AmacaThera Inc., biotechnology company, engages in developing and commercializing injectable hydrogel platform technology for medical applications. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Sampler

Series B in 2020
At Sampler, we help consumer packaged good brands of all sizes and categories deliver physical samples to digitally targeted consumers. Our turnkey solution helps brands gather consumer feedback and demographic insights that will increase successful trial and in-turn conversion rates. Using Sampler, brands no longer need to hand out samples at random, and can get product into the right hands. We call it Direct to Consumer Product Sampling.

Tealbook, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Tealbook, Inc. develops and operates an online supplier knowledge management and procurement platform. The company’s platform offers up-to-date, credible information from suppliers that facilitates teams to identify qualified suppliers for specific needs and collaborate with stakeholders on supplier information and searches. Its platform centralizes and consolidates supplier-shared information, such as company name, contact information, product or service offerings, a brief capabilities presentation, social media feeds, diversity status and certification forms, public client recommendations, and aggregated intelligence from industry peers; and client supplier intelligence, including vendor master, preferred suppliers list, other supplier status listings, legal status and optional secure contract upload, relationships with internal colleagues, and shared notes. It integrates with ERP systems, spend management systems, E-sourcing tools, contract management systems, and portals. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Coconut Software

Series A in 2017
Our cloud based, enterprise level appointment scheduling and visitor management platform combines your on-location and digital channels, providing self-service booking and curbside pickup, online and physical queuing, wait time tracking, callback requests and virtual meeting support as well as contact center integration.

My Intelligent Machines

Seed Round in 2019
MIMs, a Montreal-based SAAS company was founded in June 2016 by Sarah Jenna (CEO), Mickaël Camus (CTO) and Abdoulaye Baniré Diallo (CSO). MIMs mission is to provide Biopharma and Agtech companies with AI-powered systems biology software for population stratification, target and biomarker discovery to help them develop a more efficient and personalized medicine and agriculture.

Bridgit Inc.

Series A in 2017
Bridgit Inc. develops and provides construction-project management solutions. The company offers Bridgit Bench, a construction resource planning and workforce management tool; and Bridgit Field, an inspection, task, and communication management solution. It caters to contractors and developers. Bridgit Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Kitchener, Canada.