Jewlr
Private Equity Round in 2022
Jewlr is a jewelry company based in Thornhill, Canada, specializing in designing, manufacturing, and marketing a wide array of fine jewelry. The company offers an extensive selection of products, including rings, necklaces, bracelets, pendants, and earrings, with a focus on custom-made and personalized options. Through its online platform, Jewlr enables customers to have creative control over their jewelry designs, allowing them to choose styles, metals, stones, and engravings that reflect their individual preferences and budget. By addressing the challenges of traditional jewelry purchasing, Jewlr provides a unique and user-friendly experience for customers seeking personalized jewelry solutions.
Borrowell
Series C in 2021
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.
LifeSpeak
Private Equity Round in 2020
LifeSpeak is a software-as-a-service company that designs and operates a digital education platform focused on employee mental health and total wellbeing. Its library includes video training, podcasts, and other proprietary content addressing mental health, stress management, resilience, relationships, financial health, professional development, leadership, disability and absence management, parenting, and other health topics. The platform is designed for organizations across industries, including financial institutions, technology, telecom, energy, manufacturing, government, healthcare, and education sectors, with a broad multinational client base. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Toronto, LifeSpeak serves Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, insurers, and health technology firms, delivering content and programs via a hosted subscription model, with the majority of revenue generated in the United States.
TouchBistro
Series E in 2019
TouchBistro, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing iPad-based point-of-sale (POS) solutions tailored for the food and beverage industry, including restaurants, cafes, bars, and food trucks. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, with an additional office in Toronto, TouchBistro provides various POS systems, such as Restaurant POS, Food Truck POS, and Bar POS, which streamline order management and payment processing. Its innovative system allows servers to take orders directly at the table, reducing the need for multiple trips to a terminal and minimizing errors. Additionally, TouchBistro offers features like TouchBistro Reservations for guest management, cloud-based reporting and analytics, and customer-facing displays, enhancing both operational efficiency and customer experience. The company's products are available through the Apple App Store in the United States and internationally.
Qvella Corporation is a Toronto-based molecular diagnostics company founded in 2009 by a group of scientists and engineers. The company focuses on transforming clinical microbiology by significantly reducing the time required to obtain results for bloodstream infections. Qvella's innovative Field Activated Sample Treatment (FAST™) technology employs a novel electrical lysing technique, known as e-lysis™, which facilitates the rapid and fully automated detection of infectious agents directly from unenriched biological samples. This capability allows clinicians to identify microorganisms in infected whole blood samples without the lengthy sample processing typically required, ultimately enhancing patient outcomes and saving lives.
Mobile Klinik
Series B in 2017
Founded in 2015, Mobile Klinik specializes in smartphone and tablet repair services across Canada. It offers same-day on-site repairs for most devices, along with additional services such as battery replacement, data backup/transfer, personalized accessories, and a lifetime warranty.
Figure 1 is a Canadian company based in Toronto that specializes in developing a mobile application for sharing medical images. Founded in 2013, the company's platform allows healthcare professionals, including physicians, nurses, and medical students, to share images and case studies of patients for educational and diagnostic purposes. This facilitates global collaboration among millions of healthcare professionals, enhancing patient outcomes through real-time consultation and knowledge exchange.
TouchBistro
Series C in 2017
TouchBistro, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing iPad-based point-of-sale (POS) solutions tailored for the food and beverage industry, including restaurants, cafes, bars, and food trucks. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, with an additional office in Toronto, TouchBistro provides various POS systems, such as Restaurant POS, Food Truck POS, and Bar POS, which streamline order management and payment processing. Its innovative system allows servers to take orders directly at the table, reducing the need for multiple trips to a terminal and minimizing errors. Additionally, TouchBistro offers features like TouchBistro Reservations for guest management, cloud-based reporting and analytics, and customer-facing displays, enhancing both operational efficiency and customer experience. The company's products are available through the Apple App Store in the United States and internationally.
Hubba, established in Toronto, Canada in 2011, operates a software platform designed to connect brands with retailers. Its core service enables brand marketers to digitally showcase their product portfolio, create comprehensive product stories by aggregating information and media, and share this content securely with retail partners. The platform facilitates synchronization of product data across multiple channels, provides visibility into how products are presented by retailers, and offers customizable access controls for partners. Hubba currently supports over 75,000 small to medium-sized businesses.
TouchBistro
Series B in 2016
TouchBistro, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing iPad-based point-of-sale (POS) solutions tailored for the food and beverage industry, including restaurants, cafes, bars, and food trucks. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, with an additional office in Toronto, TouchBistro provides various POS systems, such as Restaurant POS, Food Truck POS, and Bar POS, which streamline order management and payment processing. Its innovative system allows servers to take orders directly at the table, reducing the need for multiple trips to a terminal and minimizing errors. Additionally, TouchBistro offers features like TouchBistro Reservations for guest management, cloud-based reporting and analytics, and customer-facing displays, enhancing both operational efficiency and customer experience. The company's products are available through the Apple App Store in the United States and internationally.
Hubba, established in Toronto, Canada in 2011, operates a software platform designed to connect brands with retailers. Its core service enables brand marketers to digitally showcase their product portfolio, create comprehensive product stories by aggregating information and media, and share this content securely with retail partners. The platform facilitates synchronization of product data across multiple channels, provides visibility into how products are presented by retailers, and offers customizable access controls for partners. Hubba currently supports over 75,000 small to medium-sized businesses.
Prodomax Automation
Acquisition in 2015
Prodomax Automation Ltd. specializes in designing, manufacturing, and constructing automated manufacturing solutions tailored for assembly, welding, machining, material handling, and laser cutting applications. Founded in 1971 and based in Barrie, Canada, the company provides a diverse range of systems, including resistance and arc welding systems, assembly systems, hot stamping systems, and laser systems, catering to various industries such as automotive, electronics, and consumer products. Prodomax Automation focuses on meeting the stringent requirements of the automotive sector, offering services and products that encompass process engineering, system layout, simulation, hardware controls, software design, robotic handling systems, and transfer devices. As of 2018, Prodomax operates as a subsidiary of Jenoptik AG.
TouchBistro
Series A in 2015
TouchBistro, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing iPad-based point-of-sale (POS) solutions tailored for the food and beverage industry, including restaurants, cafes, bars, and food trucks. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, with an additional office in Toronto, TouchBistro provides various POS systems, such as Restaurant POS, Food Truck POS, and Bar POS, which streamline order management and payment processing. Its innovative system allows servers to take orders directly at the table, reducing the need for multiple trips to a terminal and minimizing errors. Additionally, TouchBistro offers features like TouchBistro Reservations for guest management, cloud-based reporting and analytics, and customer-facing displays, enhancing both operational efficiency and customer experience. The company's products are available through the Apple App Store in the United States and internationally.
TouchBistro
Seed Round in 2014
TouchBistro, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing iPad-based point-of-sale (POS) solutions tailored for the food and beverage industry, including restaurants, cafes, bars, and food trucks. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, with an additional office in Toronto, TouchBistro provides various POS systems, such as Restaurant POS, Food Truck POS, and Bar POS, which streamline order management and payment processing. Its innovative system allows servers to take orders directly at the table, reducing the need for multiple trips to a terminal and minimizing errors. Additionally, TouchBistro offers features like TouchBistro Reservations for guest management, cloud-based reporting and analytics, and customer-facing displays, enhancing both operational efficiency and customer experience. The company's products are available through the Apple App Store in the United States and internationally.
The Turtle Island Recycling
Private Equity Round in 2007
Turtle Island Recycling is a Toronto-based company specializing in multi-material recycling and waste removal services. The business offers a comprehensive range of solutions, including product destruction, waste management, consulting, and audits. Its operations encompass material recovery from various sources, such as paper, mixed beverage containers, industrial metals, plastics, packaging waste, and organic food waste. Additionally, Turtle Island Recycling provides specialized services for the destruction of health care products, dairy products, non-hazardous pharmaceuticals, and other food items. The company also engages in municipal services, which include residential collection, garbage and yard waste collection, and related offerings. Through its diverse services, Turtle Island Recycling aims to promote sustainability and efficient waste management practices.
ProteinQure is a biotechnology company focused on designing novel exotic peptides with broad therapeutic applications. It leverages quantum computing, atomic-level simulations, reinforcement learning, and artificial intelligence to engineer dynamic peptide therapeutics and to design protein structures with efficiency. The company provides structure determination, protein design, and property determination to enable drug discovery and design. Founded in 2017, ProteinQure is based in Toronto, Canada.