Portage

Portage Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Toronto, Canada, established in 2016 as the corporate venture capital arm of Sagard Holdings. The firm specializes in investing in early-stage, growth-stage, and later-stage companies within the financial technology sector. Portage Ventures is dedicated to identifying and supporting promising Canadian fintech companies that have the potential to achieve significant global impact. Through its strategic investments, the firm aims to foster innovation and development in the financial services industry.

Jake Bodanis

Partner, Portage Ventures

Adam Felesky

Co-Founder and CEO

Ricky Lai

Partner

Victoire Lavigne

Principal, Portage Ventures

Leo Liu

Senior Associate

Gabi Makari

Associate

AJ Okereke

Principal

Juliette Souliman

Principal

Alex Tung

Associate

Jonathan Tétrault

Managing Partner and Member of the Management Committee

Past deals in Personal Finance

Alpaca

Series C in 2025
Alpaca is a developer-focused financial technology platform that provides a modern brokerage infrastructure for accessing financial markets. The company offers services that include stock and cryptocurrency investing, real-time market data, and comprehensive brokerage capabilities through user-friendly application programming interfaces (APIs). This enables developers to create trading applications and integrate investment functionalities into various products. Alpaca supports a diverse range of businesses and applications globally, catering to tens of thousands of developers who utilize its platform to enhance their financial offerings. The company has attracted significant funding from leading investors in the sector, positioning itself as a prominent player in the embedded finance landscape.

Pearler

Seed Round in 2025
Pearler is an investment platform based in Sydney, Australia, founded in 2018. It aims to simplify the investing process for individuals seeking financial independence by providing a user-friendly app. The platform allows users to invest in international stocks and exchange-traded fund portfolios with low brokerage fees. Pearler offers features such as auto-investing, strategy comparison, and progress tracking towards financial goals, making it a comprehensive resource for personal finance and long-term investing. By fostering a supportive community, Pearler seeks to empower ordinary individuals to become successful long-term investors.

Belong

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Belong, a revolutionary wealth-building platform. Belong strives to make wealth-building opportunities available to a broader market, with a concentration on professionally employed millennials.

Pearler

Seed Round in 2022
Pearler is an investment platform based in Sydney, Australia, founded in 2018. It aims to simplify the investing process for individuals seeking financial independence by providing a user-friendly app. The platform allows users to invest in international stocks and exchange-traded fund portfolios with low brokerage fees. Pearler offers features such as auto-investing, strategy comparison, and progress tracking towards financial goals, making it a comprehensive resource for personal finance and long-term investing. By fostering a supportive community, Pearler seeks to empower ordinary individuals to become successful long-term investors.

Mirza

Venture Round in 2021
Mirza operates a FinTech platform focused on providing tax-efficient employer stipends to caregivers. The platform's tools facilitate family financial planning and childcare funding, supporting corporate policies related to parental leave, fertility options, and modern parenting advice. By integrating these services, Mirza aims to help working professionals achieve their financial goals while balancing their caregiving responsibilities.

Alpaca

Series B in 2021
Alpaca is a developer-focused financial technology platform that provides a modern brokerage infrastructure for accessing financial markets. The company offers services that include stock and cryptocurrency investing, real-time market data, and comprehensive brokerage capabilities through user-friendly application programming interfaces (APIs). This enables developers to create trading applications and integrate investment functionalities into various products. Alpaca supports a diverse range of businesses and applications globally, catering to tens of thousands of developers who utilize its platform to enhance their financial offerings. The company has attracted significant funding from leading investors in the sector, positioning itself as a prominent player in the embedded finance landscape.

Moneyworld

Seed Round in 2021
Moneyworld is a financial platform that integrates digital banking services with elements of gaming to make saving enjoyable and engaging. By replacing traditional banking experiences with interactive characters and a vibrant environment, Moneyworld encourages users to save towards their financial goals while earning daily returns on their savings. The platform combines the fun of exploration and interaction with its animated inhabitants, offering a unique approach to financial activities that fosters a sense of community. This innovative model aims to transform the often solitary act of saving into an entertaining and rewarding experience.

Kikoff

Series B in 2021
Kikoff Inc. is a personal finance platform based in San Francisco, California, that aims to help individuals build and improve their credit scores at no cost. Founded in 2019, Kikoff offers a web and mobile application that allows users to access funds and establish a payment history by making monthly repayments. The platform is designed to maximize credit potential by providing tools that demonstrate creditworthiness, even for those without a bank account or existing credit score. Through its services, Kikoff enables users to monitor their credit scores and reports while offering a straightforward pathway to achieving their financial goals.

Borrowell

Series C in 2021
Borrowell Inc. is a financial technology company based in Toronto, Canada, founded in 2014. It specializes in offering a range of financial products and services, including personal loans, credit cards, and free credit scores. Borrowell operates an online marketplace-lending platform that provides Canadians with access to borrowing options and unsecured consumer loans. The company is dedicated to enhancing financial prosperity for its users by offering tools for credit education, personalized credit coaching, and AI-driven recommendations for financial products. By delivering resources such as credit monitoring and tailored options from marketplace partners, Borrowell aims to help customers secure low-interest loans and improve their overall financial well-being.

Albert

Series C in 2021
Albert Corporation is a financial technology company established in 2015 and based in Culver City, California. The company offers a mobile application that provides financial advisory services designed to make money management accessible and affordable. Users can directly communicate with financial experts to address various financial issues, build personalized financial plans, and utilize automated investing services. The platform features tools for automatic savings, financial health monitoring, budgeting, and detailed spending reports. Additionally, it offers Albert Instant, which provides advances against paychecks to help customers avoid overdrafts. Albert aggregates financial data from users' bank accounts, credit cards, loans, and investments to analyze income and expenses, enabling personalized recommendations for savings accounts and loan applications. The company is supported by several investors, including General Atlantic and QED.

Pearler

Seed Round in 2021
Pearler is an investment platform based in Sydney, Australia, founded in 2018. It aims to simplify the investing process for individuals seeking financial independence by providing a user-friendly app. The platform allows users to invest in international stocks and exchange-traded fund portfolios with low brokerage fees. Pearler offers features such as auto-investing, strategy comparison, and progress tracking towards financial goals, making it a comprehensive resource for personal finance and long-term investing. By fostering a supportive community, Pearler seeks to empower ordinary individuals to become successful long-term investors.

Alpaca

Series A in 2020
Alpaca is a developer-focused financial technology platform that provides a modern brokerage infrastructure for accessing financial markets. The company offers services that include stock and cryptocurrency investing, real-time market data, and comprehensive brokerage capabilities through user-friendly application programming interfaces (APIs). This enables developers to create trading applications and integrate investment functionalities into various products. Alpaca supports a diverse range of businesses and applications globally, catering to tens of thousands of developers who utilize its platform to enhance their financial offerings. The company has attracted significant funding from leading investors in the sector, positioning itself as a prominent player in the embedded finance landscape.

Albert

Series B in 2020
Albert Corporation is a financial technology company established in 2015 and based in Culver City, California. The company offers a mobile application that provides financial advisory services designed to make money management accessible and affordable. Users can directly communicate with financial experts to address various financial issues, build personalized financial plans, and utilize automated investing services. The platform features tools for automatic savings, financial health monitoring, budgeting, and detailed spending reports. Additionally, it offers Albert Instant, which provides advances against paychecks to help customers avoid overdrafts. Albert aggregates financial data from users' bank accounts, credit cards, loans, and investments to analyze income and expenses, enabling personalized recommendations for savings accounts and loan applications. The company is supported by several investors, including General Atlantic and QED.

Alpaca

Series A in 2019
Alpaca is a developer-focused financial technology platform that provides a modern brokerage infrastructure for accessing financial markets. The company offers services that include stock and cryptocurrency investing, real-time market data, and comprehensive brokerage capabilities through user-friendly application programming interfaces (APIs). This enables developers to create trading applications and integrate investment functionalities into various products. Alpaca supports a diverse range of businesses and applications globally, catering to tens of thousands of developers who utilize its platform to enhance their financial offerings. The company has attracted significant funding from leading investors in the sector, positioning itself as a prominent player in the embedded finance landscape.

Borrowell

Series B in 2019
Borrowell Inc. is a financial technology company based in Toronto, Canada, founded in 2014. It specializes in offering a range of financial products and services, including personal loans, credit cards, and free credit scores. Borrowell operates an online marketplace-lending platform that provides Canadians with access to borrowing options and unsecured consumer loans. The company is dedicated to enhancing financial prosperity for its users by offering tools for credit education, personalized credit coaching, and AI-driven recommendations for financial products. By delivering resources such as credit monitoring and tailored options from marketplace partners, Borrowell aims to help customers secure low-interest loans and improve their overall financial well-being.

magnifi

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Magnifi is an online investing platform that provides AI-driven assistance to investors, aiming to simplify the investment process for both newcomers and experienced individuals. The platform features an investment search engine that allows users to explore a marketplace of over 15,000 investment options, including stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs, tailored to their personal financial goals. Magnifi's AI assistant helps users make informed decisions and reduces the apprehensions associated with investing. Additionally, investors can compare and analyze multiple investment options side-by-side and connect various brokerage accounts to manage their entire portfolio in one place. The company is headquartered in Hong Kong, with an office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Albert

Series A in 2018
Albert Corporation is a financial technology company established in 2015 and based in Culver City, California. The company offers a mobile application that provides financial advisory services designed to make money management accessible and affordable. Users can directly communicate with financial experts to address various financial issues, build personalized financial plans, and utilize automated investing services. The platform features tools for automatic savings, financial health monitoring, budgeting, and detailed spending reports. Additionally, it offers Albert Instant, which provides advances against paychecks to help customers avoid overdrafts. Albert aggregates financial data from users' bank accounts, credit cards, loans, and investments to analyze income and expenses, enabling personalized recommendations for savings accounts and loan applications. The company is supported by several investors, including General Atlantic and QED.

Multiply

Venture Round in 2018
Multiply is a London-based company founded in 2016 that leverages artificial intelligence to provide personalized investment advice. The firm aims to address the "advice gap" by offering free financial plans accessible to individuals who may not have significant assets, thus making financial guidance available to a broader audience. Working in collaboration with the Financial Conduct Authority's Advice Unit, Multiply is pursuing full regulation to become one of the first automated financial advice solutions. Their platform allows users to create an account, answer questions about their financial situation and goals, and receive tailored recommendations across various financial areas, including savings, pensions, investments, and insurance. Multiply prioritizes user security through encryption, ensuring that personal information remains confidential and is never shared or sold. This innovative approach provides a fast, easy, and impartial way for individuals to enhance their financial decision-making.

Albert

Seed Round in 2018
Albert Corporation is a financial technology company established in 2015 and based in Culver City, California. The company offers a mobile application that provides financial advisory services designed to make money management accessible and affordable. Users can directly communicate with financial experts to address various financial issues, build personalized financial plans, and utilize automated investing services. The platform features tools for automatic savings, financial health monitoring, budgeting, and detailed spending reports. Additionally, it offers Albert Instant, which provides advances against paychecks to help customers avoid overdrafts. Albert aggregates financial data from users' bank accounts, credit cards, loans, and investments to analyze income and expenses, enabling personalized recommendations for savings accounts and loan applications. The company is supported by several investors, including General Atlantic and QED.

Quovo

Series B in 2018
Quovo Inc. is a New York-based company that develops a data platform focused on providing financial analytics and data management solutions for small- and mid-sized investors. The platform connects to millions of consumer financial accounts across over 14,000 institutions, allowing businesses to retrieve, organize, and analyze essential financial data. Quovo's offerings include tools for portfolio data normalization and reconciliation, as well as features that streamline client onboarding and facilitate ACH payments. Its services cater to a diverse clientele, including endowments, family offices, financial advisors, and individuals, enhancing their ability to manage investments and personalize financial services. Founded in 2009, Quovo operates as a subsidiary of Plaid Inc.

Loot

Series A in 2017
Loot Financial Services Ltd., based in London, provides current account services and contactless Mastercard offerings. Established in 2014, Loot combines a prepaid debit card with a budgeting application that allows users to manage their finances effectively. The app offers features such as weekly budgeting data, real-time spending information, and the ability to pause or unpause the card. By automating expense tracking, Loot simplifies financial management for its users. The company is also exploring business-to-business solutions aimed at customer acquisition and loyalty enhancement, while seeking strategic investors for a global launch.

Stride Health

Series B in 2017
Stride Health, Inc. operates a health benefits platform tailored for independent workers and part-time employees in the United States. The company provides a range of affordable health coverage options, including dental plans, doctor visits, and prescription insurance. By simplifying the enrollment process, Stride Health enables users to quickly select their most cost-effective health plans while also offering assistance from personal advisors to help navigate any complexities. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, California, Stride Health was previously known as Covered, Inc. The company's mission is to make health insurance more accessible and manageable for those who may not have traditional employment benefits.

Borrowell

Series A in 2017
Borrowell Inc. is a financial technology company based in Toronto, Canada, founded in 2014. It specializes in offering a range of financial products and services, including personal loans, credit cards, and free credit scores. Borrowell operates an online marketplace-lending platform that provides Canadians with access to borrowing options and unsecured consumer loans. The company is dedicated to enhancing financial prosperity for its users by offering tools for credit education, personalized credit coaching, and AI-driven recommendations for financial products. By delivering resources such as credit monitoring and tailored options from marketplace partners, Borrowell aims to help customers secure low-interest loans and improve their overall financial well-being.
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