Portage Ventures

Portage Ventures is a Toronto-based venture capital firm specializing in fintech and financial services investments. It targets early-stage opportunities with global potential, backing promising fintech companies across Canada, the United States, and Europe. Founded in 2016, the firm focuses on helping startups scale in the financial technology sector.

Jude Asare

Investor

Jake Bodanis

Principal

Stephanie Choo

Partner

Paul Desmarais

Partner

Hélène Falchier

Partner

Adam Felesky

Partner

Emmanuel Ferreira

Investor

Mickias Hailu

Investor

Devon Kirk

Partner

Ricky Lai

Investor

Leo Liu

Investor

Gabi Makari

Associate

Adnan Mkamel

Investor

Mrinay Nair

Principal

Carl Qiu

Associate

Samuel D. Robinson

President

Juliette Souliman

Principal

Alex Tung

Associate

Jonathan Tétrault

Managing Partner and Member of the Management Committee

Rohan Uddin

Investor

Grégoire Viat

Partner

Adam Vigna

Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer

Allan Zhang

Investor

Victoire Lavigne

Associate

Past deals in Personal Finance

Pearler

Seed Round in 2025
Pearler is an investing platform that simplifies personal investing and helps users pursue long-term financial goals. Founded in 2018 in Sydney, Australia, Pearler provides a low-cost brokerage that enables investment in international stocks and ETF portfolios. The platform includes auto-invest, strategy comparison, and progress tracking, allowing individuals to monitor performance and adjust plans. Pearler emphasizes accessibility and community support to assist ordinary investors in becoming successful long-term participants in the markets. By consolidating personal finance tools in one place, Pearler aims to be a practical solution for managing investments and achieving financial independence over time.

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.

KOHO

Series D in 2023
KOHO Financial Inc. is a financial technology company founded in 2014 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The company offers a digital banking platform that provides low-cost banking services through a prepaid, reloadable Visa-backed debit card and a user-friendly mobile application. This platform enables customers to conduct day-to-day banking operations and includes features such as financial goal setting, cash flow projections, group spending management, and detailed spending insights. By equipping users with these tools, KOHO aims to simplify money management and enhance the overall banking experience for its customers.

Conquest Planning

Series A in 2023
Conquest Planning is a FinTech company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Winnipeg, Canada. It offers an online platform that democratizes access to personalized financial advice for individuals and institutions. The platform combines an AI‑powered planning engine with co‑planning tools and seamless integration into existing systems, enabling banks, wealth‑management firms and other financial institutions to deliver scalable, efficient, and tailored financial planning services.

Pearler

Seed Round in 2022
Pearler is an investing platform that simplifies personal investing and helps users pursue long-term financial goals. Founded in 2018 in Sydney, Australia, Pearler provides a low-cost brokerage that enables investment in international stocks and ETF portfolios. The platform includes auto-invest, strategy comparison, and progress tracking, allowing individuals to monitor performance and adjust plans. Pearler emphasizes accessibility and community support to assist ordinary investors in becoming successful long-term participants in the markets. By consolidating personal finance tools in one place, Pearler aims to be a practical solution for managing investments and achieving financial independence over time.

KOHO

Series D in 2022
KOHO Financial Inc. is a financial technology company founded in 2014 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The company offers a digital banking platform that provides low-cost banking services through a prepaid, reloadable Visa-backed debit card and a user-friendly mobile application. This platform enables customers to conduct day-to-day banking operations and includes features such as financial goal setting, cash flow projections, group spending management, and detailed spending insights. By equipping users with these tools, KOHO aims to simplify money management and enhance the overall banking experience for its customers.

Mirza

Venture Round in 2021
Mirza is a FinTech company that focuses on providing tax-efficient employer stipends to a network of caregivers. Its platform integrates family financial planning and childcare funding, helping organizations enhance their corporate policies related to parental leave, fertility options, and modern parenting advice. By offering these tools, Mirza enables working professionals to navigate their financial responsibilities while supporting their roles as caregivers. The company aims to empower employees by facilitating their financial goals through innovative solutions tailored to the needs of modern families.

Moneyworld

Seed Round in 2021
Moneyworld is an innovative fintech company that combines elements of video games with digital banking services. Users can save money while exploring a virtual world, interacting with characters, and earning daily returns on their savings.

Conquest Planning

Seed Round in 2021
Conquest Planning is a FinTech company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Winnipeg, Canada. It offers an online platform that democratizes access to personalized financial advice for individuals and institutions. The platform combines an AI‑powered planning engine with co‑planning tools and seamless integration into existing systems, enabling banks, wealth‑management firms and other financial institutions to deliver scalable, efficient, and tailored financial planning services.

Kikoff

Series B in 2021
Kikoff is a personal finance platform that helps users build credit histories and improve credit scores. Through a web and mobile app, it provides tools to build credit, save, monitor credit scores and reports, and access funds by paying back monthly to establish a payment history. The platform emphasizes turning credit builders into reliable borrowers and offers AI-powered products to help users build credit, reduce debt, save on bills, and access money, enabling individuals to take control of their financial future. Kikoff was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco.

KOHO

Series C in 2021
KOHO Financial Inc. is a financial technology company founded in 2014 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The company offers a digital banking platform that provides low-cost banking services through a prepaid, reloadable Visa-backed debit card and a user-friendly mobile application. This platform enables customers to conduct day-to-day banking operations and includes features such as financial goal setting, cash flow projections, group spending management, and detailed spending insights. By equipping users with these tools, KOHO aims to simplify money management and enhance the overall banking experience for its customers.

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.

Albert

Series C in 2021
Founded in 2015, Albert is a fintech company based in Culver City, California. It offers a mobile platform providing accessible and affordable financial advice through direct chat with experts, personalized financial plans, automated investing, budgeting tools, and features like Albert Instant for paycheck advances.

Pearler

Seed Round in 2021
Pearler is an investing platform that simplifies personal investing and helps users pursue long-term financial goals. Founded in 2018 in Sydney, Australia, Pearler provides a low-cost brokerage that enables investment in international stocks and ETF portfolios. The platform includes auto-invest, strategy comparison, and progress tracking, allowing individuals to monitor performance and adjust plans. Pearler emphasizes accessibility and community support to assist ordinary investors in becoming successful long-term participants in the markets. By consolidating personal finance tools in one place, Pearler aims to be a practical solution for managing investments and achieving financial independence over time.

Albert

Series B in 2020
Founded in 2015, Albert is a fintech company based in Culver City, California. It offers a mobile platform providing accessible and affordable financial advice through direct chat with experts, personalized financial plans, automated investing, budgeting tools, and features like Albert Instant for paycheck advances.

Conquest Planning

Seed Round in 2020
Conquest Planning is a FinTech company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Winnipeg, Canada. It offers an online platform that democratizes access to personalized financial advice for individuals and institutions. The platform combines an AI‑powered planning engine with co‑planning tools and seamless integration into existing systems, enabling banks, wealth‑management firms and other financial institutions to deliver scalable, efficient, and tailored financial planning services.

Borrowell

Series B in 2019
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.

KOHO

Series B in 2019
KOHO Financial Inc. is a financial technology company founded in 2014 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The company offers a digital banking platform that provides low-cost banking services through a prepaid, reloadable Visa-backed debit card and a user-friendly mobile application. This platform enables customers to conduct day-to-day banking operations and includes features such as financial goal setting, cash flow projections, group spending management, and detailed spending insights. By equipping users with these tools, KOHO aims to simplify money management and enhance the overall banking experience for its customers.

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
Founded in 2015, Albert is a fintech company based in Culver City, California. It offers a mobile platform providing accessible and affordable financial advice through direct chat with experts, personalized financial plans, automated investing, budgeting tools, and features like Albert Instant for paycheck advances.

Multiply

Venture Round in 2018
Founded in 2016, Multiply is a London-based company offering AI-powered investment advice. It aims to bridge the 'advice gap' by providing free, secure, and personalized financial plans covering savings, pensions, investments, and insurance.

Albert

Seed Round in 2018
Founded in 2015, Albert is a fintech company based in Culver City, California. It offers a mobile platform providing accessible and affordable financial advice through direct chat with experts, personalized financial plans, automated investing, budgeting tools, and features like Albert Instant for paycheck advances.

Quovo

Series B in 2018
Quovo Inc. is a data platform that specializes in providing financial analytics and data management solutions for small- and mid-sized investors. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York, the company enables businesses to connect to millions of consumer financial accounts across over 14,000 institutions. Quovo's platform retrieves, organizes, and analyzes data, offering features such as automated data repair, portfolio reconciliation, and insights into client account activity. Its services are tailored for a diverse clientele, including endowments, foundations, family offices, and financial advisors. By facilitating deeper connectivity and insights, Quovo assists financial service providers in enhancing customer relationships and personalizing their offerings. In 2019, Quovo became a subsidiary of Plaid Inc.

Loot

Series A in 2017
Loot Financial Services Ltd., established in 2014 and headquartered in London, offers a unique financial service combining a pre-paid Visa debit card with a budgeting app. This service provides users with real-time spending information, weekly budgets data, and the ability to pause/unpause their card via the web application. The company's primary business is to deliver these innovative banking alternatives to consumers, helping them manage their finances more effectively.

KOHO

Venture Round in 2017
KOHO Financial Inc. is a financial technology company founded in 2014 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The company offers a digital banking platform that provides low-cost banking services through a prepaid, reloadable Visa-backed debit card and a user-friendly mobile application. This platform enables customers to conduct day-to-day banking operations and includes features such as financial goal setting, cash flow projections, group spending management, and detailed spending insights. By equipping users with these tools, KOHO aims to simplify money management and enhance the overall banking experience for its customers.

Stride Health

Series B in 2017
Stride Health, Inc. is a health benefits platform that specializes in providing affordable health coverage options for independent workers and part-time employees in the United States. The company offers a range of services, including dental plans, doctor and prescription insurance plans, and various health coverage options tailored to meet the needs of its customers. Stride Health simplifies the enrollment process by guiding users through selecting the most cost-effective health plans, aiming to optimize their tax benefits and enhance their take-home pay. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, California, the company was previously known as Covered, Inc. and rebranded to Stride Health, Inc. in March 2013. Stride Health also provides personal advisory services to assist clients in navigating the complexities of their health insurance options.

Borrowell

Series A in 2017
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.
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