Vanedge Capital

Vanedge Capital Inc. is a Vancouver-based venture capital firm that specializes in investments across various stages, particularly focusing on technology and interactive entertainment sectors. Founded in 2008, the firm targets companies that have already gained traction, specifically in areas such as enterprise software, cloud computing, cyber security, and digital media. Vanedge Capital is particularly interested in businesses with annual revenues between $0.5 million and $1 million, investing between CAD 1 million and CAD 13 million. The firm seeks opportunities in both North American markets, especially the United States and Canada, as well as in Asia, with a notable presence in China. It aims to partner with companies that have demonstrated product market fit and possess a fast-growing user base, providing not only capital but also operational expertise and a global network to help these businesses scale effectively.

Linda Chen

Director of Finance

Mike Gelbart

Scientific Advisor

Moe Kermani Ph.D

Managing Partner

Katie Kim

Investment Analyst

V. Paul Lee

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Annika Lewis

Associate

Amy Rae

Partner and Principal

Micah Siegel Ph.D

Venture Partner

Todd Tessier

Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Darren Thomson

Associate

58 past transactions

Olyns

Series A in 2023
Integrated hardware and software enabling a new paradigm for funding and collections of recycled plastic.

Autozen

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of an automotive retail platform intended to re-invent the car-selling experience. The company's platform takes care of everything including paperwork, payment, and pick-up, and creates an experience where no effort is required from sellers, enabling users to sell their vehicles from the comfort of their homes.

ALICE Technologies

Series B in 2022
ALICE empowers construction engineering and management professionals with modern AI and Optimization techniques. Its software automatically produces detailed schedules and resource allocations, which accurately estimate the cost and time frame for a project. Users understand the construction process through an interactive visualization, and can quickly tweak or modify a schedule to reflect the shifting realities of the construction cycle. It is born out of research at Stanford by a collaborative effort between experienced construction managers, software engineers, and computational methods specialists. ALICE enhances construction planning and scheduling abilities to help keep crews flowing on any size project. It works directly with 3D BIM and using a simple rule-based system, it explores millions of different schedule sequences and gives teams the power to answer “What If?” scenarios and completely reschedule in just minutes. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Echodyne

Series D in 2022
Echodyne develops and manufactures meta-materials-based radar technologies. The company combines the patented technology of metamaterials with powerful software to create a radar sensor with unprecedented performance at commercial price points. Echodyne's patented technology and powerful software create a high-performance radar platform that produces security and machine autonomy solutions for government, defense, and industry. Echodyne was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington.

Canalyst

Series C in 2022
Canalyst is a Vancouver-based financial modeling company that provides a fundamental equity research platform designed for institutional analysts and portfolio managers. Founded in 2015, the platform aids clients in enhancing their investment decision-making processes, particularly focusing on small- and mid-cap equities that often receive less coverage. Canalyst's extensive database includes equity models for various indices, enabling users to efficiently conduct research and develop timely investment ideas. The company is recognized for its commitment to accuracy and has garnered a positive reputation among its clients for facilitating more informed investment strategies.

Olyns

Seed Round in 2021
Integrated hardware and software enabling a new paradigm for funding and collections of recycled plastic.

Cogniac

Series B in 2021
Cogniac Corporation designs and develops an enterprise platform for AI-grade visual observation. It offers Cogniac, an enterprise platform that enables easy automation of various visual tasks The company’s platform also enables users to connect their machine vision cameras, security cameras, drone images, mobile images, and other sources; define uses cases and objects of interest relevant to their media; monitor and improve the performance of their application by providing feedback; and connect their application to real-time alerts and notifications. Its platform is used in industrial, manufacturing, and safety and security applications. Cogniac Corporation was founded in 2015 and is based in San Jose, California.

Bridgit

Series B in 2021
Bridgit Inc., founded in 2014 by civil engineer Lauren Lake and entrepreneur Mallorie Brodie, specializes in construction project management solutions. Headquartered in Kitchener, Canada, the company offers two primary products: Bridgit Bench and Bridgit Field. Bridgit Bench is a construction resource planning and workforce management tool designed to streamline the management of construction resources, eliminating the need for cumbersome spreadsheets. Bridgit Field focuses on enhancing communication, accountability, and visibility on construction sites, making project management more efficient and straightforward. By leveraging modern technology, Bridgit aims to simplify the complexities of construction projects, helping contractors and developers complete their work more effectively and on time.

#Paid

Series B in 2021
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xCures

Series A in 2021
xCures, Inc. is a company based in Los Altos, California, founded in 2018, that focuses on enhancing cancer treatment through an AI-based precision oncology platform. This platform addresses the shortcomings of traditional drug-centric approaches by integrating cancer research and clinical care, running a perpetual trial that captures Real World Evidence (RWE). By continuously learning from patient data across various treatments, xCures coordinates treatment recommendations tailored to individual needs. The software supports advanced cancer patients and their healthcare providers by structuring insights from tumor boards and utilizing machine learning to identify the most effective treatment options. Ultimately, xCures aims to reduce the time and cost associated with drug development, thereby improving patient outcomes in oncology.

Cogniac

Series B in 2020
Cogniac Corporation designs and develops an enterprise platform for AI-grade visual observation. It offers Cogniac, an enterprise platform that enables easy automation of various visual tasks The company’s platform also enables users to connect their machine vision cameras, security cameras, drone images, mobile images, and other sources; define uses cases and objects of interest relevant to their media; monitor and improve the performance of their application by providing feedback; and connect their application to real-time alerts and notifications. Its platform is used in industrial, manufacturing, and safety and security applications. Cogniac Corporation was founded in 2015 and is based in San Jose, California.

VodaSafe

Seed Round in 2020
Vodasafe Inc. develops AquaEye, a handheld waterproof device for rescuers. Its device uses sonar to scan body of water to locate submerged persons, as well as records various rescue data and connects via Bluetooth to various identified devices. The company is based in Kelowna, Canada.

SensorUp

Series A in 2020
SensorUp Inc. is a Calgary-based company established in 2011 that specializes in developing and operating an Internet of Things (IoT) platform. The company provides solutions for sensor data, analytics, and mapping through a unified API, enabling the interconnection of IoT devices, data, and applications over the web. The SensorUp IoT Software Platform facilitates integration with the SensorUp Cloud, allowing devices to communicate with one another and with third-party web applications. Among its offerings is the Smart Cities Starter Kit, designed for air quality monitoring. SensorUp aims to empower users by enabling intelligent automation and enhancing safety and productivity in various sectors.

Canalyst

Series B in 2020
Canalyst is a Vancouver-based financial modeling company that provides a fundamental equity research platform designed for institutional analysts and portfolio managers. Founded in 2015, the platform aids clients in enhancing their investment decision-making processes, particularly focusing on small- and mid-cap equities that often receive less coverage. Canalyst's extensive database includes equity models for various indices, enabling users to efficiently conduct research and develop timely investment ideas. The company is recognized for its commitment to accuracy and has garnered a positive reputation among its clients for facilitating more informed investment strategies.

Femtosense

Seed Round in 2020
Femtosense is a technology company.

xCures

Venture Round in 2020
xCures, Inc. is a company based in Los Altos, California, founded in 2018, that focuses on enhancing cancer treatment through an AI-based precision oncology platform. This platform addresses the shortcomings of traditional drug-centric approaches by integrating cancer research and clinical care, running a perpetual trial that captures Real World Evidence (RWE). By continuously learning from patient data across various treatments, xCures coordinates treatment recommendations tailored to individual needs. The software supports advanced cancer patients and their healthcare providers by structuring insights from tumor boards and utilizing machine learning to identify the most effective treatment options. Ultimately, xCures aims to reduce the time and cost associated with drug development, thereby improving patient outcomes in oncology.

RoosterBio

Series B in 2019
RoosterBio, Inc. is a biotechnology company specializing in the development of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) for the regenerative medicine sector. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Frederick, Maryland, RoosterBio provides human bone marrow and adipose-derived MSCs designed for tissue engineers and cell therapists. These products aim to facilitate the creation of technologies, products, and devices that incorporate living cells. The company's offerings are intended to simplify and accelerate research in regenerative medicine by addressing common challenges in stem cell research and commercialization. RoosterBio has formed strategic alliances with organizations such as Pall Corporation and Tissue Regeneration Therapeutics Inc., further enhancing its capabilities in the field.

Echodyne

Series C in 2019
Echodyne develops and manufactures meta-materials-based radar technologies. The company combines the patented technology of metamaterials with powerful software to create a radar sensor with unprecedented performance at commercial price points. Echodyne's patented technology and powerful software create a high-performance radar platform that produces security and machine autonomy solutions for government, defense, and industry. Echodyne was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington.

Vendasta

Venture Round in 2019
Vendasta offers software and services to professionals who sell digital solutions to local businesses. The tools power the local businesses’ digital presence and online reputation. Marketing agencies, broadcasters, publishers, technology companies, banks, yellow pages, and telecoms are able to drive down their cost of sales while increasing margins using Vendasta’s platform. They delight clients using Vendasta’s white-labelled solutions, including its award-winning needs assessment, automated email marketing campaigns, easy-to-use CRM, marketplace of resellable apps & services, and fulfillment agency. Vendasta has been named to the Deloitte Technology Fast 500, the Deloitte Technology Fast 50, and Canadian Business Magazine’s Profit 500.

SpaceX

Venture Round in 2019
Space Exploration Technologies is a space-transportation startup company founded by Elon Musk. SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. SpaceX develops crew and cargo capsules, engines, cryogenic tank structures, avionics, equipment, guidance, and control software. The company is developing the partially reusable launch vehicles Falcon 1 and Falcon 9. Founded in 2002, Space Exploration Technologies is headquartered in Hawthorne, California.

SpaceX

Funding Round in 2019
Space Exploration Technologies is a space-transportation startup company founded by Elon Musk. SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. SpaceX develops crew and cargo capsules, engines, cryogenic tank structures, avionics, equipment, guidance, and control software. The company is developing the partially reusable launch vehicles Falcon 1 and Falcon 9. Founded in 2002, Space Exploration Technologies is headquartered in Hawthorne, California.

Bridgit

Series A in 2019
Bridgit Inc., founded in 2014 by civil engineer Lauren Lake and entrepreneur Mallorie Brodie, specializes in construction project management solutions. Headquartered in Kitchener, Canada, the company offers two primary products: Bridgit Bench and Bridgit Field. Bridgit Bench is a construction resource planning and workforce management tool designed to streamline the management of construction resources, eliminating the need for cumbersome spreadsheets. Bridgit Field focuses on enhancing communication, accountability, and visibility on construction sites, making project management more efficient and straightforward. By leveraging modern technology, Bridgit aims to simplify the complexities of construction projects, helping contractors and developers complete their work more effectively and on time.

Quantum Benchmark

Venture Round in 2019
Quantum Benchmark is the leading provider of software solutions that enable error characterization, error mitigation, error correction and performance validation for quantum computing hardware. Their company is led by a team of the world’s top research scientists and engineers in quantum computing with the mission of enabling quantum computers to solve real-world problems. They are venture-backed with headquarters in Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada.

Plotly

Series B in 2018
Plotly, Inc. is a data science and AI company based in Montreal, Canada, that offers an online platform for data analysis and visualization. The company provides tools that enable scientists, students, engineers, and analysts to analyze, simulate, graph, share, and edit various data formats, including Excel spreadsheets, CSV, and Matlab files. Plotly simplifies the creation, deployment, and sharing of interactive web applications and visualizations across different programming languages, making data science accessible beyond traditional laboratory settings.

OmniSci

Series C in 2018
OmniSci, Inc. specializes in accelerated analytics solutions powered by graphics processing units (GPUs). Its analytics platform enables users to interactively query and visualize data, facilitating data science workflows across vast datasets. This technology is utilized by various sectors, including automotive, insurance, investment management, logistics, media, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, utilities, and public services. The platform stands out by allowing organizations to derive insights from data far beyond the capabilities of conventional analytics tools. OmniSci's origins trace back to research at Harvard and the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Established in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company has formed strategic partnerships with several prominent investors and firms, including Google Ventures, In-Q-Tel, and NVIDIA. OmniSci aims to support both business and government entities in leveraging data for informed decision-making.

Rigado

Series A in 2018
At Rigado, they have the privilege of working on a variety of exciting new products with cutting edge technologies. Their products have applications across multiple industries. They turn challenges into opportunities and find the fun in everything. Rigado hires talented professionals with outstanding skills and strong work ethic. Rigado careers are made for people who want to make a real difference in the world by creating products that solve problems. They are seeking professionals with talents in their current areas of operation, as well as those who can bring new skills to their dynamic team.

AVA Technologies

Seed Round in 2018
AVA Technologies Inc. develops and manufactures a hardware enabled software device, AVA Byte, that helps users grow nutrition dense fruits and vegetables from home. The device is an artificial intelligence enabled smart indoor garden equipped with sensors that helps us collect the datasets. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

SensorUp

Seed Round in 2018
SensorUp Inc. is a Calgary-based company established in 2011 that specializes in developing and operating an Internet of Things (IoT) platform. The company provides solutions for sensor data, analytics, and mapping through a unified API, enabling the interconnection of IoT devices, data, and applications over the web. The SensorUp IoT Software Platform facilitates integration with the SensorUp Cloud, allowing devices to communicate with one another and with third-party web applications. Among its offerings is the Smart Cities Starter Kit, designed for air quality monitoring. SensorUp aims to empower users by enabling intelligent automation and enhancing safety and productivity in various sectors.

HyTrust

Series E in 2017
HyTrust was founded by veterans in the enterprise infrastructure and security space who recognized early on not only that virtualization and the cloud were going to dramatically transform the data center, but also that security would be a critical inhibitor to cloud adoption. The mission behind HyTrust has always been to mitigate the risk of catastrophic data center failure and data breaches — especially in light of the concentration of risk that occurs within virtualized and cloud environments. Organizations can now confidently expand virtualization to mission critical applications and take full advantage of the cloud. HyTrust has assembled a world-class team of company builders and innovators and has earned venture backing from the biggest players in the next-generation datacenter: Cisco, VMware, Intel, Fortinet, and In-Q-Tel, the funding arm of the US intelligence community. Further venture investment has come from highly respected firms such as Trident Capital, Sway Ventures, Epic Ventures, Advanced Venture Partners and Granite Ventures.

Bitfusion.io

Series A in 2017
Bitfusion was founded with a vision to make at-scale heterogeneous computing accessible to any organization and build the operating system for the next generation computing. The company’s products allow AI developers to cluster, share, scale and manage compute resources to reduce the costs and complexity associated with the AI application lifecycle. Bitfusion has offices in Silicon Valley and Austin, Texas.

OmniSci

Series B in 2017
OmniSci, Inc. specializes in accelerated analytics solutions powered by graphics processing units (GPUs). Its analytics platform enables users to interactively query and visualize data, facilitating data science workflows across vast datasets. This technology is utilized by various sectors, including automotive, insurance, investment management, logistics, media, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, utilities, and public services. The platform stands out by allowing organizations to derive insights from data far beyond the capabilities of conventional analytics tools. OmniSci's origins trace back to research at Harvard and the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Established in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company has formed strategic partnerships with several prominent investors and firms, including Google Ventures, In-Q-Tel, and NVIDIA. OmniSci aims to support both business and government entities in leveraging data for informed decision-making.

Xtract AI

Debt Financing in 2016
Xtract AI is a Vancouver-based company that specializes in developing artificial intelligence software aimed at enhancing machine learning capabilities. Founded in 2016, Xtract AI focuses on automating the digitization, parsing, and comprehension of extensive text data through its flagship product, XtractDOCS. The company also offers XtractVIDEO, which utilizes proprietary algorithms to apply human-like understanding to video content. With a strong foundation in machine learning and computer science, Xtract AI is dedicated to advancing AI technology and has secured six provisional patents for its deep learning innovations. The company aims to transform various sectors, including accounting and finance, by creating smart, effective applications that enhance organizational efficiency. As of September 2019, Xtract AI operates as a subsidiary of Patriot One Technologies Inc.

Canalyst

Seed Round in 2016
Canalyst is a Vancouver-based financial modeling company that provides a fundamental equity research platform designed for institutional analysts and portfolio managers. Founded in 2015, the platform aids clients in enhancing their investment decision-making processes, particularly focusing on small- and mid-cap equities that often receive less coverage. Canalyst's extensive database includes equity models for various indices, enabling users to efficiently conduct research and develop timely investment ideas. The company is recognized for its commitment to accuracy and has garnered a positive reputation among its clients for facilitating more informed investment strategies.

Vendasta

Debt Financing in 2016
Vendasta offers software and services to professionals who sell digital solutions to local businesses. The tools power the local businesses’ digital presence and online reputation. Marketing agencies, broadcasters, publishers, technology companies, banks, yellow pages, and telecoms are able to drive down their cost of sales while increasing margins using Vendasta’s platform. They delight clients using Vendasta’s white-labelled solutions, including its award-winning needs assessment, automated email marketing campaigns, easy-to-use CRM, marketplace of resellable apps & services, and fulfillment agency. Vendasta has been named to the Deloitte Technology Fast 500, the Deloitte Technology Fast 50, and Canadian Business Magazine’s Profit 500.

Bridgit

Seed Round in 2016
Bridgit Inc., founded in 2014 by civil engineer Lauren Lake and entrepreneur Mallorie Brodie, specializes in construction project management solutions. Headquartered in Kitchener, Canada, the company offers two primary products: Bridgit Bench and Bridgit Field. Bridgit Bench is a construction resource planning and workforce management tool designed to streamline the management of construction resources, eliminating the need for cumbersome spreadsheets. Bridgit Field focuses on enhancing communication, accountability, and visibility on construction sites, making project management more efficient and straightforward. By leveraging modern technology, Bridgit aims to simplify the complexities of construction projects, helping contractors and developers complete their work more effectively and on time.

OmniSci

Series A in 2016
OmniSci, Inc. specializes in accelerated analytics solutions powered by graphics processing units (GPUs). Its analytics platform enables users to interactively query and visualize data, facilitating data science workflows across vast datasets. This technology is utilized by various sectors, including automotive, insurance, investment management, logistics, media, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, utilities, and public services. The platform stands out by allowing organizations to derive insights from data far beyond the capabilities of conventional analytics tools. OmniSci's origins trace back to research at Harvard and the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Established in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company has formed strategic partnerships with several prominent investors and firms, including Google Ventures, In-Q-Tel, and NVIDIA. OmniSci aims to support both business and government entities in leveraging data for informed decision-making.

Boundless Spatial

Series B in 2015
Boundless provides product support, training, and core development to meet your geospatial requirements. By providing the first open GIS ecosystem—a commercially-supported open-source platform and family of powerful products—Boundless is unlocking the full value of location-based data. They’re not an average group of software developers and geospatial geeks. In fact, they’re the world’s foremost leading authority on open source GIS and location-based data. Over the past 14 years, Boundless has set the standard in open source geospatial expertise. Their team is active in the open source geospatial (FOSS4G) community, gathering and sharing their deep understanding of GIS theories and concepts. They’re now expanding this expertise by introducing the first open GIS ecosystem, unlocking the value of location-based data for all.

Control Mobile

Seed Round in 2015
Control helps businesses understand and manage their online payments. Integrated with Stripe, PayPal, and other payment processors, Control delivers real-time payment analytics, payments management, and fraud tools to any device. They've helped over 10,000 businesses process over $20M in transactions on their mobile devices and deliver 1M+ time-sensitive alerts each month.

HyTrust

Series D in 2015
HyTrust was founded by veterans in the enterprise infrastructure and security space who recognized early on not only that virtualization and the cloud were going to dramatically transform the data center, but also that security would be a critical inhibitor to cloud adoption. The mission behind HyTrust has always been to mitigate the risk of catastrophic data center failure and data breaches — especially in light of the concentration of risk that occurs within virtualized and cloud environments. Organizations can now confidently expand virtualization to mission critical applications and take full advantage of the cloud. HyTrust has assembled a world-class team of company builders and innovators and has earned venture backing from the biggest players in the next-generation datacenter: Cisco, VMware, Intel, Fortinet, and In-Q-Tel, the funding arm of the US intelligence community. Further venture investment has come from highly respected firms such as Trident Capital, Sway Ventures, Epic Ventures, Advanced Venture Partners and Granite Ventures.

MediaCore

Series A in 2015
Video is transforming education, and MediaCore helps hundreds of educational institutions around the world embrace it. The MediaCore Video Platform puts powerful video learning and sharing tools into the hands of every student and professor — empowering them to easily capture, manage and share video privately and securely across all platforms and mobile devices. MediaCore has received a wide range of awards, most recently being recognised by Fast Company as one of the top ten most innovative companies in digital video.

Illusense

Venture Round in 2015
Illusense Inc. develops machine vision technology. It offers ultra-high resolution laser-based internal oil and gas pipeline inspection technology for pipeline maintenance services. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.

OmniSci

Seed Round in 2014
OmniSci, Inc. specializes in accelerated analytics solutions powered by graphics processing units (GPUs). Its analytics platform enables users to interactively query and visualize data, facilitating data science workflows across vast datasets. This technology is utilized by various sectors, including automotive, insurance, investment management, logistics, media, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, utilities, and public services. The platform stands out by allowing organizations to derive insights from data far beyond the capabilities of conventional analytics tools. OmniSci's origins trace back to research at Harvard and the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Established in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company has formed strategic partnerships with several prominent investors and firms, including Google Ventures, In-Q-Tel, and NVIDIA. OmniSci aims to support both business and government entities in leveraging data for informed decision-making.

Privacy Analytics

Seed Round in 2014
Privacy Analytics allows healthcare organizations to quickly and easily apply a responsible de-identification methodology that ensures individual privacy and legal compliance.

vArmour

Series B in 2013
vArmour is a leader in data defined perimeter security. Where the world of mobile, virtualization and cloud has moved beyond the traditional perimeter, threats are more sophisticated and CIO’s require greater visibility and control of their data. Based in Mountain View, California, vArmour is founded by security and technology experts from Juniper, Netscreen, RSA and Silvertail. Find out more at www.varmour.com

Karma Gaming

Series A in 2013
Based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Karma’s team delivers over 30 years of gaming industry expertise, a proven entrepreneurial track record and a deep understanding of online casual and social gaming.

Speek

Seed Round in 2013
Speek Inc. offers web-based conference calling solutions that simplify the process of setting up and joining calls. Founded in 2006 and based in Dulles, Virginia, the company provides users with a personal link to facilitate conference calls without the need for dial-ins, PINs, or downloads. Participants can easily initiate or join calls by clicking the provided link, which can be shared via email, calendar invites, instant messages, or text messages. Speek also allows users to see who has joined the call, manage speakers, and share files during the conversation. As of June 2015, Speek operates as a subsidiary of Jive Communications, Inc., having raised a total of $2.6 million in funding, including $1.1 million in a recent bridge round.

Boundless Spatial

Series A in 2013
Boundless provides product support, training, and core development to meet your geospatial requirements. By providing the first open GIS ecosystem—a commercially-supported open-source platform and family of powerful products—Boundless is unlocking the full value of location-based data. They’re not an average group of software developers and geospatial geeks. In fact, they’re the world’s foremost leading authority on open source GIS and location-based data. Over the past 14 years, Boundless has set the standard in open source geospatial expertise. Their team is active in the open source geospatial (FOSS4G) community, gathering and sharing their deep understanding of GIS theories and concepts. They’re now expanding this expertise by introducing the first open GIS ecosystem, unlocking the value of location-based data for all.

Vendasta

Series B in 2013
Vendasta offers software and services to professionals who sell digital solutions to local businesses. The tools power the local businesses’ digital presence and online reputation. Marketing agencies, broadcasters, publishers, technology companies, banks, yellow pages, and telecoms are able to drive down their cost of sales while increasing margins using Vendasta’s platform. They delight clients using Vendasta’s white-labelled solutions, including its award-winning needs assessment, automated email marketing campaigns, easy-to-use CRM, marketplace of resellable apps & services, and fulfillment agency. Vendasta has been named to the Deloitte Technology Fast 500, the Deloitte Technology Fast 50, and Canadian Business Magazine’s Profit 500.

Playnomics

Series B in 2013
Playnomics, a predictive data and marketing platform for free-to-play games and apps, empowers marketers and developers to quickly predict player value and behavior, and immediately act on those insights with customized messaging. Equipped with Playnomics’ dynamic player segmentation engine and drag-and-drop campaign marketing tools, apps can tailor monetization and retention campaigns that protect VIPs, nurture new spenders, and monetize non-spenders. Their smarter, predictive analytics and messaging platform help app makers and marketers make better choices and earn from everyone.

Speek

Seed Round in 2013
Speek Inc. offers web-based conference calling solutions that simplify the process of setting up and joining calls. Founded in 2006 and based in Dulles, Virginia, the company provides users with a personal link to facilitate conference calls without the need for dial-ins, PINs, or downloads. Participants can easily initiate or join calls by clicking the provided link, which can be shared via email, calendar invites, instant messages, or text messages. Speek also allows users to see who has joined the call, manage speakers, and share files during the conversation. As of June 2015, Speek operates as a subsidiary of Jive Communications, Inc., having raised a total of $2.6 million in funding, including $1.1 million in a recent bridge round.

Metafor Software

Seed Round in 2012
Metafor’s machine learning technology analyzes the streams of real-time data generated by your IT infrastructure and applications to accurately identify anomalous behavior so you can fix problems at the first sign of trouble. Metafor automatically establishes what normal behavior looks like and uses advanced unsupervised, non-parametric behavioral analytics to identify activity indicative of security threats and impending performance problems.

Wurldtech

Series A in 2012
Wurldtech, a GE company, is in the business of protecting critical infrastructure from cyber attack. We work with both device manufacturers and system operators to provide protection for critical infrastructure against the persistent and dynamic cyber threats. Customers worldwide rely on Wurldtech products and services to reduce the risks and costs of a cyber attack, maximize system uptime and meet compliance mandates. Our Achilles® certification programs have been widely adopted by both manufacturers and operators to deliver third party benchmark testing of product and system security.

Recon Instruments

Series A in 2012
Recon Instruments, Inc. designs and develops smart eyewear products for sports and high-intensity environments. It offers GPS heads-up displays for alpine sports, prescription inserts, and ski and snowboard goggles; Recon Engage that enables users to track activity and location in real time; see their stats; manage dashboards; and get text and call notifications on their Recon device. The company also provides tools and documentation for designing, developing, and distributing apps for Recon devices. The company offers its products through distributors and online. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Vancouver, Canada. As of June 16, 2015, Recon Instruments, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Intel Corporation.

Gamerizon Studio

Venture Round in 2011
Gamerizon Studio Inc. develops mobile and casual games. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Montreal, Canada.

Sava Transmedia

Series A in 2011
Sava Transmedia is a new type of company where creativity and innovation meet to redefine what they believe will be the future of social gaming! Their vision consists of more and more players enjoying fresh gaming experiences that connect and entertain across all convenient platforms. They are bringing technological, design and artistic innovation to produce new games that provide their customers with high value entertainment. In particular, they specialize in games for large audiences on fast growing platforms such as Facebook, iOS, Android and Windows Phone. Sava is an independent company based in vibrant Montreal. It was founded by a team of industry veterans headed by Alain Tascan (co-founder of Ubisoft Montreal and founder of EA Montreal).

SignalSet

Series A in 2011
Seattle-based SignalSet has developed the first wireless infrastructure solution that allows machine-to-machine device manufacturers and OEMs to deploy and remotely manage wireless devices capable of seamlessly switching between GSM and CDMA wireless networks with no manual intervention. With SignalSet's patent-pending Remote Carrier Switchingâ„¢ technology, wireless machine-to-machine devices are being built to have continuous carrier choice, freely moving between networks as needed to maximize coverage, data transmission speed, and automatic redundancy at an affordable price.

Plantiga

Seed Round in 2010
Plantiga provides human movement intelligence, a deep insight into health based on the way people move. Its platform is built to optimize health, prevent injury, and monitor recovery by detecting changes in functional movement patterns that the eye cannot see. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia.

NeoEdge Networks

Venture Round in 2009
NeoEdge Networks is an in game advertising firm.