Leaders Fund

Leaders Fund is a venture capital firm based in Toronto, Canada, with an office in Atlanta, Georgia. It concentrates on seed to early-stage investments in cloud-based enterprise software and SaaS, with a focus on B2B applications and technologies such as mobile, cloud computing, and machine learning. The firm backs companies in Canada and the United States, and tends to invest between 1 million and 5 million per company, taking roughly 5% to 20% equity. Founded in 2016, Leaders Fund operates with an evergreen, flexible structure to align with portfolio companies and to partner with other investors on deal structure and growth strategies.

Stephen DeBacco

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Gideon Hayden

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

David Kamenetsky

Principal

David Macdonald

Venture Partner

Dave MacDonald

Venture Partner

David Stein

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Past deals in Ontario

Ada

Series B in 2020
Ada Support Inc. is a computer software company that specializes in a chatbot platform designed to enhance customer experience for enterprise businesses. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Ada's platform leverages artificial intelligence to enable non-technical support teams to automate responses to customer inquiries. By utilizing a web and mobile machine learning engine, the platform effectively reduces support volume and empowers customers to find answers independently. Additionally, the system is capable of learning from interactions, continuously improving its ability to address customer needs and streamline support processes.

Briza

Seed Round in 2020
Briza, Inc. is a Toronto-based company founded in 2016 that specializes in providing an online insurance-as-a-service platform focused on commercial insurance. The company's API facilitates instant quoting, binding, and issuance of policies, thereby streamlining the process for organizations looking to sell insurance. By creating an infrastructure that connects underwriting systems with insurance agencies and consumer applications, Briza enables users to offer insurance solutions efficiently through a few lines of code. The platform serves as a marketplace for automated underwriting models, allowing insurers to quickly and cost-effectively deliver their products to small business clients in a digital format.

Ada

Series A in 2018
Ada Support Inc. is a computer software company that specializes in a chatbot platform designed to enhance customer experience for enterprise businesses. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Ada's platform leverages artificial intelligence to enable non-technical support teams to automate responses to customer inquiries. By utilizing a web and mobile machine learning engine, the platform effectively reduces support volume and empowers customers to find answers independently. Additionally, the system is capable of learning from interactions, continuously improving its ability to address customer needs and streamline support processes.

CrowdRiff

Series A in 2018
Founded in Toronto in 2011, CrowdRiff is a visual marketing platform for travel and tourism brands. It uses artificial intelligence to help marketers discover and deliver top-performing visual content across various channels.

Influitive

Series B in 2016
Influitive Corporation, established in 2010 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices in Menlo Park, California, and Boston, Massachusetts, specializes in advocate marketing software solutions for B2B software and technology firms. Its flagship product, AdvocateHub, facilitates the creation of advocate communities, enabling customers, partners, and employees to engage in challenges such as referrals, reviews, and reference calls. This software integrates with Salesforce.com for activity tracking and is available via web portal or mobile app. Influitive also offers consulting services, providing coaching and training to help businesses implement and advance their advocate marketing strategies.
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