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.

Jake Bodanis

Principal

Stephanie Choo

Partner

Paul Desmarais

Executive Chairman

Hélène Falchier

Partner

Adam Felesky

Partner

Past deals in Wealth Management

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.

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.

Retirable

Seed Round in 2022
Retirable is a financial services company focusing on retirement planning, advising, investing and income generation for adults near retirement. Based in New York City and established in 2019, it operates as a registered investment adviser providing retirement-focused financial planning and investment management to individuals in the United States. It offers personalized retirement income plans, fiduciary advisory support and investment strategies that balance risk and cash flow in retirement. The firm also provides access to high-yield cash accounts and debit card services through a partner bank, Thread Bank, though it is not a bank itself. Assets are managed by the executive management team.

Covey

Seed Round in 2022
Covey is an analyst-led community focused on identifying and rewarding emerging talent in money management. The company has developed a financial platform that facilitates the creation and sharing of portfolios among users. This platform allows analysts to share portfolio analytics across various communities while aggregating trade-level data on equities. By providing a sophisticated mock portfolio trading suite, Covey assists hedge funds and investment institutions in refining their trading strategies, ultimately enhancing their investment decision-making processes.

Getquin

Series A in 2022
Getquin is a financial technology company that offers a comprehensive platform for investors to manage and track their entire net worth in one location. The platform is designed to facilitate the creation and management of exchange-traded fund portfolios, allowing users to analyze their assets and make informed investment decisions. By providing tools to monitor investments continuously, Getquin fosters a community of like-minded investors, enhancing the decision-making process through shared insights and information. This integrated approach aims to empower individuals to take control of their financial futures.

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.

Getquin

Seed Round in 2021
Getquin is a financial technology company that offers a comprehensive platform for investors to manage and track their entire net worth in one location. The platform is designed to facilitate the creation and management of exchange-traded fund portfolios, allowing users to analyze their assets and make informed investment decisions. By providing tools to monitor investments continuously, Getquin fosters a community of like-minded investors, enhancing the decision-making process through shared insights and information. This integrated approach aims to empower individuals to take control of their financial futures.

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.

d1g1t

Series A in 2018
d1g1t develops a digital wealth management platform that provides analytics-driven portfolio management services to professional advisers and their individual investors. The platform integrates risk management tools, client management, onboarding, portfolio tracking, historical performance analysis, and future risk forecasting to support adviser-client relationships and business growth. Based in Toronto, Canada, the company focuses on transparent, data-driven investment guidance for advisory firms and their clients.

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.

Wealthsimple

Series A in 2015
Wealthsimple Financial Inc. is a Toronto-based company that specializes in providing digital investment advisory services across Canada and operates additional offices in Brooklyn, New York, and London, United Kingdom. Founded in 2014, Wealthsimple offers a range of financial tools designed to help investors grow and manage their money. The company builds diversified portfolios of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on behalf of its clients, offering accessible and affordable investment management without the high fees and account minimums typical of traditional firms. Wealthsimple also provides on-demand financial planning solutions and a hybrid savings and spending product known as Wealthsimple Cash. As of September 2020, Wealthsimple operates as a subsidiary of Purpose Advisor Solutions Inc.

Seeds

Seeds empowers financial advisors to more deeply understand investors and to automatically deliver custom portfolios that align. Founded in 2018, Seeds is enabling the evolution toward truly intentional, purposeful, and personalized investing.
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