BEST Funds

Founded in Toronto in 1996, BEST Funds is a venture capital firm that invests primarily in software, cloud computing, financial services, and clean tech sectors across Canada. The company focuses on providing growth capital to technology companies.

Alan Chettiar

Senior Portfolio Manager

John Richardson

Founder and CEO

Past deals in Toronto

GroupBy

Venture Round in 2015
GroupBy Inc. is a technology company specializing in cloud-based e-commerce software solutions. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with an additional office in Austin, Texas, GroupBy offers a comprehensive Product Discovery Platform that utilizes advanced features such as data enrichment, search, recommendations, personalization, and merchandising. The platform is powered by Google Cloud Vertex AI Search for Retail, allowing businesses to enhance customer engagement through optimized search and navigation capabilities. GroupBy also provides services for multi-site management, search engine optimization, and knowledge management, as well as consulting and training services to support clients in implementation and user experience design. The company serves a diverse clientele across the United States, Canada, Europe, and parts of Asia through authorized resellers, catering to both large-scale B2B configurations and high-volume B2C scenarios.

TeamBuy

Series A in 2013
TeamBuy.ca is a Canadian group-buying website that launched in Toronto in 2009. The site secures impressive savings by using team-buying power, giving users the benefit of buying in bulk without actually having to. With the goal to become one of Canada's top online shopping destinations, TeamBuy.ca offers features that range from the hottest lifestyle and home décor products to travel and spa packages, self-improvement workshops to dinner experiences. Considered a trusted city guide that introduces TeamBuyers to only the finest that their city has to offer, TeamBuy.ca is available in over 20 major cities and local regions across Canada. TeamBuy.ca has grown rapidly since 2009, cultivating relationships with thousands of diverse merchant partners, expanding to offer mobile and Facebook ecommerce apps and generating over $100,000,000 in savings for their members.

TransGaming

Debt Financing in 2013
TransGaming, Inc. (TSX-V: TNG), is the global leader in the multiplatform deployment of interactive entertainment. TransGaming works with the industry's leading developers and publishers to enable and distribute games for Smart TV set-top boxes, Mac computers, and Linux/CE platforms. TransGaming is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices in Ottawa and Atlanta.

NewStep Networks

Series A in 2003
NewStep Networks, Inc. provides service convergence and fixed-mobile convergence software solutions. The company offers FlexConnect solutions that bring the benefits of service convergence to mobile, office, and home phones; and Enterprise Mobility solutions, which feature one button transfer, single number service, automatic reconnect, single voicemail, and voicemail intercept. It also offers Total Mobility solutions that feature FlexConnect Solution and Enterprise Mobility Solutions, and add features designed for enterprise environments. Its customers include enterprises, service providers, equipment makers, system integrators, and business and consumer users. The company was formerly known as Rev D Networks, Inc. and changed its name to NewStep Networks, Inc. in November 2003. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with additional Offices in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Asia. As of June 8, 2009, NewStep Networks, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Natural Convergence, Inc.
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