Relay Ventures

Relay Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Toronto, Canada, with an additional office in Calgary. Founded in 2010 by John Albright and Kevin Talbot, the firm specializes in investments across various stages, including startup, seed, early-stage, and growth capital. Relay Ventures focuses primarily on the mobile computing industry, targeting applications and services such as mobile commerce, enterprise applications, social networking, and location-based services. The firm also emphasizes mobile-related software and services, particularly those that enhance the mobile ecosystem and connected Internet. Its investment preferences include technology-facing companies within North America, with a notable interest in sectors like fintech, urban tech, and sports tech.

88 past transactions

Boomerang

Seed Round in 2022
Boomerang is a technology-powered service that collects, stores, and returns lost valuables back to the owners. Customers who have misplaced an item can use the app to enter a description and see if the item was logged by one of Boomerang's partner businesses. These partners have access to software that organizes discovered items into an easy-to-use database. Boomerang also provides a fully managed option in which it collects lost items from businesses and stores them until their owners retrieve them - a resource for large companies or venues (think airports and stadiums) that may find hundreds or even thousands of lost objects per month.

Blue J

Series B in 2021
Blue J is a developer of a legal research platform intended to help predict court outcomes. Their platform is designed to improve productivity while enabling the team to focus on higher-value tasks. Their platform utilizes machine learning and artificial intelligence to scan historic judicial decisions and search for patterns to predict the outcomes of future cases, enabling legal professionals to leverage the data alongside relevant case law, saving both time and money.

7shifts

Series B in 2021
7shifts is the complete team management platform for restaurants. 7shifts provides tools that help restaurateurs make more profitable decisions, improve team retention, and get operations in order. 7shifts is made for everyone — from FOH to BOH — and is trusted by over 40,000 restaurants and 1 million restaurant pros.

Rally

Series B in 2020
Rally they provide equity shares in collectible assets. They make investing in ideas, emotions, and communities safe, easy, and accessible.

The Logic

Seed Round in 2019
The Logic was founded in 2018 to help build the future of the innovation economy by providing in-depth reporting on the organizations, policies and people driving transformational change. Everything they do is underscored by their commitment to making Canada a better place to live and work—by sparking important conversations about what the country wants to be. At The Logic, they believe the best days of journalism are ahead of us, with readers—not advertisers—at their core.

7shifts

Series A in 2019
7shifts is the complete team management platform for restaurants. 7shifts provides tools that help restaurateurs make more profitable decisions, improve team retention, and get operations in order. 7shifts is made for everyone — from FOH to BOH — and is trusted by over 40,000 restaurants and 1 million restaurant pros.

Populus

Seed Round in 2019
Populus is a platform for cities to manage and price commercial fleets to deliver safer more sustainable streets. Over 100 cities around the world rely on Populus to receive GPS data from commercial vehicles, and are now leveraging their platform to create, manage, and enforce payment for access to curbs to prioritize transitions to lower carbon transportation.

Blue J

Series A in 2018
Blue J is a developer of a legal research platform intended to help predict court outcomes. Their platform is designed to improve productivity while enabling the team to focus on higher-value tasks. Their platform utilizes machine learning and artificial intelligence to scan historic judicial decisions and search for patterns to predict the outcomes of future cases, enabling legal professionals to leverage the data alongside relevant case law, saving both time and money.

MobSquad

Venture Round in 2018
MobSquad helps start-ups address the growing talent gap they are facing by equipping them with full-time technical talent. They are not a job shop, so they don’t do part-time or project-based work. They provide you with remote team members who are your full-time employees.

PurPicks

Convertible Note in 2018
PurPicks, a user-generated reviews platform, is the portal for unvarnished truths about an unrivaled selection of non-toxic and organic beauty and skincare products.

QUID

Seed Round in 2018
QUID is a payment processing service designed to process tiny transactions at extremely high volumes. Our vision is a world of connected people, platforms, and devices making billions of secure, tiny payments effortlessly. Our team has solved some of the most complex security and privacy challenges in the past decade. By using techniques such as cryptographic receipts and personal information obfuscation, the QUID platform is engineered from the ground up to ensure secure payment processing and data privacy. QUID offers innovative, low-friction merchant tools to make it easy for users to accept payments on their websites, blogs, podcasts, or social profiles. Merchants can use the QUID Payments plugin for WordPress or any of our quickstart guides to quickly and easily start accepting QUID on websites built with many of the most popular website platforms like WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, and more. Our robust libraries and developer-first approach to building the QUID platform means that developers can easily integrate micropayments into their websites and apps -- our high-throughput, globally consistent ledger ensures that QUID can scale to support any micropayment application developers can build.

Swift Medical

Series A in 2018
Swift Medical is a digital wound care technology to improve the prevention, treatment, and management of wounds. The company enables healthcare providers to deliver standardized, accessible, and equitable wound care with advanced imaging, compliant documentation, clinical analytics, and remote care.

Bird

Series B in 2018
Bird operates a micro-mobility platform that offers electric vehicle-sharing services, aiming to provide affordable and sustainable transportation solutions to communities worldwide. The platform enables users to create profiles, facilitating the sharing of personal electric vehicles, including electric bicycles. By coordinating with cities, Bird enhances access to environmentally friendly local transport, thereby contributing to the reduction of traffic congestion and promoting responsible alternatives to traditional motor vehicles.

GoodBuy Gear

Seed Round in 2017
GoodBuy Gear is a managed marketplace that enables parents to safely and sustainably circulate quality-used baby & kid products they love. Our mission is to give shopping and selling secondhand children's items the convenience and legitimacy it deserves.

TouchBistro

Series C in 2017
TouchBistro is an iPad-based restaurant point-of-sale system enabling owners to manage reservations and take orders instantly. Instead of servers repeatedly moving between customers and terminals for order management, servers can remain with customers and instantly submit orders to the kitchen and bar. Servers no longer need to write down an order and then enter it into a distant terminal. TouchBistro's single entry system reduces errors and increases efficiency. Menu items can be presented in vibrant color with every detail captured and can be quickly and easily updated and even published to the Web, providing more dynamic impact than a traditional menu can provide.

Nymi

Series B in 2017
Nymi is leading the way towards true digital transformation by creating Workplace Wearables that integrate humans with their digital network in a manner that is safe, secure, and simple. Our leading-edge connected worker platform delivers humancentric applications for worker health and safety, enterprise security, data integrity, compliance, and increased productivity--even in the most challenging environments. We're also a great place to work. Nymi is a winner of the Best Workplaces in Canada 2019 - Less Than 100 Employees.

Mainstay

Seed Round in 2017
Mainstay is a developer of a chatbot platform that boosts enrollment, persistence, and completion at hundreds of colleges and universities. The company uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to facilitate the path to and through college. Specifically, Mainstay developed Oli, a chatbot that combines AI with human experts to provide free college guidance to all students. For their college partners, it eliminates repetitive tasks, helps colleges meaningfully engage students at scale, and provides deep insights into their pipeline of prospects.

Mainstay

Seed Round in 2016
Mainstay is a developer of a chatbot platform that boosts enrollment, persistence, and completion at hundreds of colleges and universities. The company uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to facilitate the path to and through college. Specifically, Mainstay developed Oli, a chatbot that combines AI with human experts to provide free college guidance to all students. For their college partners, it eliminates repetitive tasks, helps colleges meaningfully engage students at scale, and provides deep insights into their pipeline of prospects.

TouchBistro

Series B in 2016
TouchBistro is an iPad-based restaurant point-of-sale system enabling owners to manage reservations and take orders instantly. Instead of servers repeatedly moving between customers and terminals for order management, servers can remain with customers and instantly submit orders to the kitchen and bar. Servers no longer need to write down an order and then enter it into a distant terminal. TouchBistro's single entry system reduces errors and increases efficiency. Menu items can be presented in vibrant color with every detail captured and can be quickly and easily updated and even published to the Web, providing more dynamic impact than a traditional menu can provide.

Kira Talent

Series A in 2016
Kira Talent is the world’s only holistic admissions solution designed for higher education. Founded in 2012, Kira transforms the admissions process by combining on-demand, timed video and timed written assessments with existing admissions requirements. Kira works with more than 300 programs worldwide to build applicant-first assessments that identify and select their best-fit students.

Automat

Seed Round in 2016
Automat helps brands listen to their customers, learn their needs, recommend the right products and deliver personalized ecommerce experiences that are actually personal. Stop guessing who your customers are, just ask them.

Tynker

Series A in 2016
Tynker is a creative computing platform where millions of kids have learned to program and built games, apps and more. Tynker's mission is to provide every child with solid foundations in Computer Science, programming, and critical thinking skills to prepare them to become better architects of their future world. Tynker offers self-paced online courses for children to learn coding at home, as well as an engaging programming curriculum for schools. Tynker’s intuitive visual programming language enables kids to build web and mobile apps, design RPG and platformer games, control robots, program drones, and even modify Minecraft worlds.

7shifts

Seed Round in 2016
7shifts is the complete team management platform for restaurants. 7shifts provides tools that help restaurateurs make more profitable decisions, improve team retention, and get operations in order. 7shifts is made for everyone — from FOH to BOH — and is trusted by over 40,000 restaurants and 1 million restaurant pros.

Axios

Post in 2015
Axios Mobile Assets is a logistics enabler that provides next-generation bio-based pallet technology that can be paired with the company's proprietary tracking and information system. The bundled offering is gaining market acceptance based on its unique attributes: lower total cost, longer useful life, customized configurations, and a revenue stream generated by carbon credits.

Social Change Rewards

Venture Round in 2015
This national mobile wellness rewards initiative harnesses the public’s affinity for popular loyalty points, the convenience of smart phone technology and Canadians’ natural desire to lead healthier lives. It is this unique combination that results in such a powerful “nudge” platform – in support of a healthier

UJET

Seed Round in 2015
UJET is a cloud contact center platform for smartphone-era CX. In addition to modernizing digital and in-app experiences, UJET eliminates customer channel switching between voice, digital, and self-service channels. The platform infuses AI across its services, which helps to automate processes and improve efficiency in customer interactions. UJET is designed to unify various customer service channels, making it easier for businesses to manage customer relationships.

Galxyz

Venture Round in 2015
Galxyz helps students build a strong foundation for future academic success. It is an intergalactic science adventure, a quest to discover and explore “curiosity particles” while keeping the ​evil King Dullard at bay. The particles teach important​ ​science concepts. Kids ​must ​use creativity, problem-solving​,​ and collaboration to unlock the next particle​ in the sequence​. They provide online educator support and aim to provide alternative and interesting tools to further learning at par with international standards. Through Galxyz students progress at their own pace through highly interactive content that encompasses all NGSS - Next Generation Science Standards - curricula. Galxyz provides self-paced, fun, and motivational games-based learning with the entire science curriculum in five levels (covering from 3rd through 12th grade).

inui Health

Series B in 2015
inui Health is a consumer medical diagnostics company based in Silicon Valley. Their vision is to make medical-grade information accessible anytime, anywhere. Their cloud-based diagnostic platform works in a mobile environment to empower consumers with access to their own health information. Their products will help consumers detect complications early, monitor their health, and easily share their health information so they can work with their healthcare provider for timely interventions. The first product to be released will be the inui In-Home Urine Analysis test system, which provides patients and physicians with immediate lab test results.

Kira Talent

Seed Round in 2015
Kira Talent is the world’s only holistic admissions solution designed for higher education. Founded in 2012, Kira transforms the admissions process by combining on-demand, timed video and timed written assessments with existing admissions requirements. Kira works with more than 300 programs worldwide to build applicant-first assessments that identify and select their best-fit students.

theScore

Post in 2015
TheScore’s mission is to create highly-engaging digital products and content that empower the sports fan’s experience. Its flagship mobile app ‘theScore’ is one of the most popular multi-sport news and data apps in North America, serving millions of fans a month. The Company also creates innovative digital sports experiences through its web, social and esports platforms.

PumpUp

Seed Round in 2014
PumpUp is a positive community to share and achieve your health goals. The PumpUp community is a safe and supportive space to share your journey toward a healthy body and healthy mind. Share your challenges and triumphs, track your fitness, and receive unparalleled support from a global community of like-minded people. PumpUp equips you with the tools you need to live a healthy lifestyle in a positive way. With millions of inspiring people cheering you on, it’s never been easier to become the best version of you! PumpUp is headquartered in Toronto, with offices in San Francisco.

Kiip

Series B in 2014
Kiip is a rewards network and mobile application that offers rewards from brands and companies for virtual achievements. It has received $15.4 million in total funding to date from Relay Ventures, Interpublic Group, Hummer Winblad, American Express Ventures, Digital Garage, True Ventures, Verizon Ventures, CrossLink Capital, and others. Kiip was Brian Wong, Courtney Guertin, and Amadeus Demarzi in 2010.

Fuse Powered

Series A in 2014
Fuse Powered provides the industry’s only player-centric platform to enable mobile game publishers to optimize every player experience. From targeted IAP offers, rewarded video and relevant ads, Fuse helps publishers maximize game revenue, from a single SDK. With more than 700 million installs, Fuse has partnered with some of the world’s leading mobile game publishers to monetize players on iOS and Android. Fuse is a venture backed, privately held company with offices in San Francisco and Toronto. Fuse Powered was acquired by www.Upsight.com January 2016.

inPowered

Pre Seed Round in 2014
inPowered is the AI platform delivering business outcomes with content marketing. Powered by Artificial Intelligence and years of machine learning, their Content Intelligence and Content Distribution solutions allow marketers to collect proprietary data and use it to drive real ROI – positively changing brand perception, increasing action taken onsite, lead generation and user engagement. inPowered was founded in 2014 by Peyman and Pirouz Nilforoush after selling their previous company, NetShelter, to Ziff Davis.

Rally

Series A in 2013
Rally operates an online fundraising platform that empowers individuals, groups, and non-profit organizations to raise money and build social awareness. Founded in 2011 and based in San Francisco, Rally provides a user-friendly tool that allows users to share their stories, photos, and updates with supporters at the point of donation. The platform is designed for both technical and non-technical users, enabling a wide range of campaigns that address various causes, from political fundraising to disaster relief efforts. Users have leveraged Rally to cover medical expenses, fund educational pursuits, and support creative projects. By connecting donors to causes and facilitating community mobilization, Rally has enabled millions to broadcast their passions and make a positive impact.

TouchBistro

Seed Round in 2013
TouchBistro is an iPad-based restaurant point-of-sale system enabling owners to manage reservations and take orders instantly. Instead of servers repeatedly moving between customers and terminals for order management, servers can remain with customers and instantly submit orders to the kitchen and bar. Servers no longer need to write down an order and then enter it into a distant terminal. TouchBistro's single entry system reduces errors and increases efficiency. Menu items can be presented in vibrant color with every detail captured and can be quickly and easily updated and even published to the Web, providing more dynamic impact than a traditional menu can provide.

Kira Talent

Seed Round in 2013
Kira Talent is the world’s only holistic admissions solution designed for higher education. Founded in 2012, Kira transforms the admissions process by combining on-demand, timed video and timed written assessments with existing admissions requirements. Kira works with more than 300 programs worldwide to build applicant-first assessments that identify and select their best-fit students.

ClearFit

Series A in 2013
Clearfit’s is a patented predictive analytics platform.

WiFiSLAM

Seed Round in 2013
WiFiSLAM is developing enabling technologies for indoor location-based services. Its technology can run on any smart phone and has the ability to provide indoor location based services with no initial setup in any Wi-Fi-enabled building.

Influitive

Series A in 2012
Influitive Corporation specializes in advocate marketing software solutions tailored for business-to-business (B2B) software and technology firms globally. Its primary product, AdvocateHub, enables companies to create advocate communities that engage customers, partners, and employees in marketing activities such as referrals, reference calls, and product reviews. This platform helps businesses harness customer enthusiasm to enhance their marketing and sales initiatives. AdvocateHub integrates with Salesforce, allowing for seamless tracking of customer engagement. Additionally, Influitive offers consulting services that include coaching and training to assist companies in implementing effective advocate marketing strategies. The AdvocateHub software is accessible through a web portal, with integration options for client websites and mobile access via the Maven app. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Influitive also has offices in Menlo Park, California, and Boston, Massachusetts.

Influitive

Seed Round in 2012
Influitive Corporation specializes in advocate marketing software solutions tailored for business-to-business (B2B) software and technology firms globally. Its primary product, AdvocateHub, enables companies to create advocate communities that engage customers, partners, and employees in marketing activities such as referrals, reference calls, and product reviews. This platform helps businesses harness customer enthusiasm to enhance their marketing and sales initiatives. AdvocateHub integrates with Salesforce, allowing for seamless tracking of customer engagement. Additionally, Influitive offers consulting services that include coaching and training to assist companies in implementing effective advocate marketing strategies. The AdvocateHub software is accessible through a web portal, with integration options for client websites and mobile access via the Maven app. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Influitive also has offices in Menlo Park, California, and Boston, Massachusetts.

ShopLocket

Seed Round in 2012
ShopLocket is a platform for hardware entrepreneurs looking to bring innovative products to life and into the hands of visionary consumers. ShopLocket specializes in ecommerce solutions for hardware, covering everything from pre-orders to a full shopping cart. As a PCH solutions company ShopLocket is ideally positioned to help hardware companies at every phase of their journey, from inspiration and ideation, through to manufacturing, ecommerce, fulfillment, and beyond.

TribeHR

Venture Round in 2012
Headquartered in Waterloo, ON and Boston, MA, TribeHR Corp. builds TribeHR, the first truly social human resources management software. Its easy-to-use tools are used by businesses worldwide, allowing companies to focus more on what they do best and less on things that get in the way. TribeHR was founded in 2009 and is funded by Matrix Partners and Relay Ventures. For more information, visit www.tribehr.com

Blue Ant Media

Venture Round in 2012
GlassBOX Television Inc. is being built to own and operate cross-platform digital broadcast and VOD channels. There is a twist. GlassBOX is run by a couple of veteran Internet guys who are focused on making use of new technologies to engage the audiences and to deliver the channels and content across the globe in innovative ways. GlassBOX studio is near Toronto, Canada, where they produce their own content with emerging artists… the up and coming stars (both on and off the screen) of comedy, music and short form entertainment. The first channel, BITE Television, is three years old and has played a key role in defining a new generation of multi-platform and interactive television services. The Emmy award-winning format for BITE TV is one they are building upon, investing in and looking to duplicate in their forthcoming multi-platform channels. GlassBOX is committed to supporting new talent, developing great content and making the best use of new technologies to help drive audiences for their creator, carrier and advertiser partners.

Kiip

Series B in 2012
Kiip is a rewards network and mobile application that offers rewards from brands and companies for virtual achievements. It has received $15.4 million in total funding to date from Relay Ventures, Interpublic Group, Hummer Winblad, American Express Ventures, Digital Garage, True Ventures, Verizon Ventures, CrossLink Capital, and others. Kiip was Brian Wong, Courtney Guertin, and Amadeus Demarzi in 2010.

Rally

Series A in 2012
Rally operates an online fundraising platform that empowers individuals, groups, and non-profit organizations to raise money and build social awareness. Founded in 2011 and based in San Francisco, Rally provides a user-friendly tool that allows users to share their stories, photos, and updates with supporters at the point of donation. The platform is designed for both technical and non-technical users, enabling a wide range of campaigns that address various causes, from political fundraising to disaster relief efforts. Users have leveraged Rally to cover medical expenses, fund educational pursuits, and support creative projects. By connecting donors to causes and facilitating community mobilization, Rally has enabled millions to broadcast their passions and make a positive impact.

NEXAGE

Series B in 2012
Digital advertising is driven by two overwhelming trends: the strategic role of mobile and the critical role of programmatic technologies to drive efficiency and liquidity. Nexage is at the forefront of both of these macro trends, leading and shaping the premium mobile advertising market through a set of firsts. Nexage was the first-to-market with mobile RTB; mobile private exchange; an exchange-based data solution, Nexage Connect; and the most robust brand safety solution in the market, Nexage Protect. Nexage has translated first-to-market advantage, creating a range of programmatic markets that allow premium publishers and buyers to design and operate markets that best enable them to accelerate their business, whether that is through an open exchange, private exchanges, or programmatic guaranteed markets. Nexage’s data solution, Nexage Connect, creates a powerful and efficient data model to deliver behavioral, contextual, location, identifier, and privacy data to buyers and their agency clients to improve targeting and retargeting, while enhancing the value of publishers’ audience. Nexage serves customers on a worldwide basis with offices in Boston, New York, San Francisco and London. Come visit us at www.nexage.com or follow us on Twitter @Nexage.

AngelList

Seed Round in 2012
AngelList is a platform that connects startups, angel investors, and job-seekers, aiming to democratize the investment process. Founded in 2010 by Babak Nivi and Naval Ravikant and headquartered in San Francisco, AngelList facilitates fundraising, recruitment, and product launches for startups. The platform has a significant impact on the startup ecosystem, having funded numerous companies and made hundreds of thousands of introductions between job-seekers and startups. It operates several subsidiaries, including AngelList Venture and AngelList Talent, and has a portfolio that includes over 20 unicorns. Additionally, AngelList has supported the launch of more than 100,000 products, playing a crucial role in shaping the future of technology.

WorldMate

Series D in 2012
WorldMate is a global leader in the field of itinerary management and mobile travel services. The WorldMate product and platform are the most sophisticated, comprehensive and widespread mobile travel itinerary management services worldwide. WorldMate has over 10 millions of mobile users and manages millions of itineraries in over 20 languages worldwide. The WorldMate app provides users with a convenient and centralized location for managing all aspects of their travel plans. WorldMate's patent-pending technology, branded TripCatch, automatically identifies (catches) incoming travel-related emails and updates the traveler's itinerary and mobile calendar. The WorldMate app is widely-accessible and can be downloaded on any iOS, Android, BlackBerry or Windows device. It has received numerous industry awards, including 2012 EyeforTravel's Winner of The Best Mobile Travel App ,Android Market Editor's Choice award, 2011 Meffys Best Blockbuster App Winner, the 2010 NBTA/WSJ Business Travel Innovation Award, Engadget Best Apps (for both iPhone and Android), 2009 AlwaysOn Global 250 Winner, ANDREWSEYBOLD Most Innovative Consumer Application, among others. WorldMate works with a wide range of partners, including device manufacturers and travel providers, and markets directly to consumers through a variety of channels and means of distribution. As a testament to our successful business model, WorldMate boasts customers such as travel industry giants American Express Business Travel, as well as Research in Motion (the manufacturer of BlackBerry devices). WorldMate is a privately-held enterprise by the world's largest travel management company, Carson Wagonlit Travel. CWT is a global leader in the managed travel market, and services the travel needs of thousands of client companies. WorldMate, Inc. was founded in 2000. It is headquartered in San Francisco and has an R&D center in Tel Aviv. WorldMate is a small company with the agile dynamics and environment of a start-up, while also being one of the largest direct to consumer Israeli companies. WorldMate is a strong, well-recognized and highly appreciated brand throughout the global mobile and travel industry. With a strong commitment to improvement, our goal is to make WorldMate even bigger and stronger, to reach more users and to make traveling a more effective and efficient experience.

ClearFit

Angel Round in 2011
Clearfit’s is a patented predictive analytics platform.

Graffiti Labs

Seed Round in 2011
Graffiti Labs offers a Facebook application that lets users draw for each other.

Catalog Spree

Series A in 2011
Catalog Spree is the personal digital mall that lets consumers browse catalogs and lookbooks, discover new brands and share products and trends. The award-winning iOS app brings the fun of window shopping to the iPad and iPhone, connecting consumers with the brands they love in a personalized, one-stop mobile shopping experience. Catalog Spree’s visually engaging, full-page lookbooks allow consumers to quickly and easily flip through pages to browse and shop fashion and products on an iPad or iPhone (also available on the web). The app features more than 350 catalogs and lookbooks from top-tier brands including Fab, Forever 21, Macy’s, Nordstrom, Stella & Dot, Target, The Land of Nod, and TOMS Shoes. Catalog Spree works with retailers to publish digital versions of print catalogs, create custom lookbooks with its all-digital publishing platform and distribute content to over 100 million targeted shoppers on the web through its partnership with Google.

Achievers

Series C in 2011
Achievers delivers the only true cloud-based Employee Success Platform™ that enables remarkable business success. Designed specifically to meet the complex needs of today’s changing, modern workplace, it is the most engaging software specifically designed to engage, align and recognize employees. It is software employees love to use every day in over 110 countries. Achievers' customers include Deloitte, CVS Pharmacy, ConAgra Foods and Microsoft.

Achievers

Venture Round in 2011
Achievers delivers the only true cloud-based Employee Success Platform™ that enables remarkable business success. Designed specifically to meet the complex needs of today’s changing, modern workplace, it is the most engaging software specifically designed to engage, align and recognize employees. It is software employees love to use every day in over 110 countries. Achievers' customers include Deloitte, CVS Pharmacy, ConAgra Foods and Microsoft.

Digby

Series C in 2011
Mobile technology's collision with brick and mortar stores challenges retailers to keep up with consumers who are better connected, better informed and more nimble than ever before. Digby’s Localpoint platform enables you to become proactive in the buying process by connecting digital engagement to the physical world. With Localpoint embedded in your branded mobile app, you can seamlessly guide a consumer’s purchase path across channels: driving store traffic through location-relevant marketing, personally engaging your customers in the brick and mortar store and developing new insights into consumer visit patterns across your locations.

Prove

Series C in 2011
Prove is a smartphone-based identity verification startup that specializes in providing phone-centric and API marketplace solutions. Its phone-centric solutions enable its customers to acquire new consumers and engage with their existing consumers by removing friction while bolstering security and enhancing consumer privacy and consumer choice.

iStopOver

Venture Round in 2010
iStopOver is an online peer-to-peer travel marketplace for short-term direct rental of excess capacity in homes. iStopOver caters specifically to direct rental of space from one person to another. Guests (Travelers) use iStopOver to find accommodation in someone's home as an alternative to paying high hotel rates. Usually priced well below average hotel rooms it gives you the opportunity to "live like a local." The site ensures that all communication takes place between the Host and the Guest online adding a huge trust factor to all parties. The site also has a secure online payment system, user profiles and reviews section.

Prove

Series B in 2010
Prove is a smartphone-based identity verification startup that specializes in providing phone-centric and API marketplace solutions. Its phone-centric solutions enable its customers to acquire new consumers and engage with their existing consumers by removing friction while bolstering security and enhancing consumer privacy and consumer choice.

Transpera

Series C in 2010
Transpera is a mobile technology company that provides a comprehensive platform for monetizing videos on mobile phones. Transpera services online content owners, network operators and advertisers by providing their patent-pending advertising platform and bridging technology -- an all-in-one style solution for connecting the necessary pieces involved in successful and profitable mobile video deployments. Transpera powers mobile video services for internet video brands including MTV Networks, Discovery Networks, Fox Reality Channel, the Travel Channel, CBS News, Associated Press, AccuWeather.com, Revision3, Next New Networks, Break.com, maniaTV, eBaumsworld and Zoovision among others.

SocialDeck

Seed Round in 2009
SocialDeck was founded in 2008 with the vision of enabling "anywhere, anytime, anyone" gaming. The company has launched several titles for the iPhone, Facebook, and BlackBerry using its social gaming platform technology, which enables simultaneous game play across multiple mobile devices and social networks. SocialDeck's technology also facilitates viral content discovery, distribution and monetization.

Quickplay

Series D in 2009
QuickPlay Media is the leading provider of managed service solutions for the distribution of premium video to IP-connected devices. Successfully used by the world’s largest communications and media companies, QuickPlay’s cloud-based OpenVideo platform provides the most scalable and secure way for companies to deliver engaging multiscreen entertainment experiences. For more information, please follow QuickPlay Media on Twitter at @quickplaymedia. Interested parties can also follow QuickPlay on Facebook at www.facebook.com/quickplaymedia. QuickPlay was founded in April 2004 by telecommunications executive Wayne Purboo and media executive Raja Khanna and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with local sales offices in North America and Europe.

Achievers

Series B in 2009
Achievers delivers the only true cloud-based Employee Success Platform™ that enables remarkable business success. Designed specifically to meet the complex needs of today’s changing, modern workplace, it is the most engaging software specifically designed to engage, align and recognize employees. It is software employees love to use every day in over 110 countries. Achievers' customers include Deloitte, CVS Pharmacy, ConAgra Foods and Microsoft.

Xobni

Series B in 2009
Xobni (the word 'inbox' spelled backwards) makes your inbox and address book smarter. First launching to the public in 2008, Xobni and its Smartr product suite, discover all the people you've ever emailed, called or texted, and creates complete and social profiles that are instantly searchable. Profiles include a photo, job title, company details, email history as well as updates from your contacts on [LinkedIn](/organization/linkedin), [Facebook](/organization/facebook), and [Twitter](/organization/twitter). Products for Gmail, Android and iPhone are available under the Smartr brand, and Xobni is available for Outlook and [BlackBerry](/organization/blackberry).

Neuralitic Systems

Series B in 2009
Neuralitic Systems' helps mobile service operators understand the mobile data user behaviours that influence data service adoption, so that they can automatically uncover new trends and habits and dynamically leverage these emerging behaviours to ignite data revenue growth.

Leonardo Worldwide

Venture Round in 2008
Leonardo's mission is to help people have better travel experiences. The company delivers a technology platform that helps hotels, hotel chains, management companies and travel websites attract more bookings and revenue. They let travel suppliers focus on creating amazing guest experiences, powered by innovative technology behind the scenes. Leonardo has been a hospitality market leader for 20 years with engaged partnerships with global hotel chains, leading travel websites, and thousands of individual hotel properties. Leonardo's technology makes it easier for travel shoppers to select hotels that meet their needs and expectations. After all, people have limited vacation time and staying at the right hotel matters.

Nobex Technologies

Seed Round in 2008
Nobex Technologies, Inc. provides mobile applications for listening to radio on mobile devices. Nobex Radio streams over 17,000 stations from over 100 countries. Additional features include the ability to see the playlist for many of the top stations, to purchase a song directly from the device, to invite friends to listen together to the same stations, and others. Nobex Technologies was founded in 2007 and is based in Santa Cruz, California.

Achievers

Series A in 2008
Achievers delivers the only true cloud-based Employee Success Platform™ that enables remarkable business success. Designed specifically to meet the complex needs of today’s changing, modern workplace, it is the most engaging software specifically designed to engage, align and recognize employees. It is software employees love to use every day in over 110 countries. Achievers' customers include Deloitte, CVS Pharmacy, ConAgra Foods and Microsoft.

Blue Ant Media

Series A in 2008
GlassBOX Television Inc. is being built to own and operate cross-platform digital broadcast and VOD channels. There is a twist. GlassBOX is run by a couple of veteran Internet guys who are focused on making use of new technologies to engage the audiences and to deliver the channels and content across the globe in innovative ways. GlassBOX studio is near Toronto, Canada, where they produce their own content with emerging artists… the up and coming stars (both on and off the screen) of comedy, music and short form entertainment. The first channel, BITE Television, is three years old and has played a key role in defining a new generation of multi-platform and interactive television services. The Emmy award-winning format for BITE TV is one they are building upon, investing in and looking to duplicate in their forthcoming multi-platform channels. GlassBOX is committed to supporting new talent, developing great content and making the best use of new technologies to help drive audiences for their creator, carrier and advertiser partners.

Leonardo Worldwide

Venture Round in 2008
Leonardo's mission is to help people have better travel experiences. The company delivers a technology platform that helps hotels, hotel chains, management companies and travel websites attract more bookings and revenue. They let travel suppliers focus on creating amazing guest experiences, powered by innovative technology behind the scenes. Leonardo has been a hospitality market leader for 20 years with engaged partnerships with global hotel chains, leading travel websites, and thousands of individual hotel properties. Leonardo's technology makes it easier for travel shoppers to select hotels that meet their needs and expectations. After all, people have limited vacation time and staying at the right hotel matters.

Viigo

Series A in 2007
Viigo finances offers multiple grants to a number of small business start-ups, every year since 2012, viigo creates steps for startups

Quickplay

Series C in 2007
QuickPlay Media is the leading provider of managed service solutions for the distribution of premium video to IP-connected devices. Successfully used by the world’s largest communications and media companies, QuickPlay’s cloud-based OpenVideo platform provides the most scalable and secure way for companies to deliver engaging multiscreen entertainment experiences. For more information, please follow QuickPlay Media on Twitter at @quickplaymedia. Interested parties can also follow QuickPlay on Facebook at www.facebook.com/quickplaymedia. QuickPlay was founded in April 2004 by telecommunications executive Wayne Purboo and media executive Raja Khanna and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with local sales offices in North America and Europe.

Paymentus

Venture Round in 2007
Paymentus Corporation is a provider of electronic billing and payment solutions in North America, specializing in a SaaS-based platform that facilitates direct-bill organizations in offering a range of payment options. These include mobile payments, online quick pay, pay-by-text, interactive voice response, autopay, and self-service portals. The company also emphasizes paperless eBilling and customer communication. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Paymentus has additional offices across multiple cities, including Atlanta and Vancouver. It serves various industries such as auto finance, healthcare, utilities, insurance, and financial services, delivering solutions for revenue management, customer self-service, and electronic bill presentment. The company's offerings are designed to enhance customer engagement and streamline payment processes while ensuring compliance with industry standards.

Ziplocal

Series B in 2007
ZipLocal provides online local search services in Canada to connect buyers and local businesses. The company's search sites include Zip411.net, redToronto.com, redMississauga.ca, 411 Canada.ca, and 411Canada.com. It also offers a white label online branch locator service through its proprietary online mapping technology that enables businesses to direct their customers to the convenient place of business. In addition, ZipLocal provides business listings, including name, address, e-mail, fax and phone number, contact name, and Web site URL for businesses in electronic format, as well as provides search advertising services. The company was formerly known as redCity Search Company, Inc. and changed its name to ZipLocal, Inc. in March 2007. ZipLocal is based in Toronto, Canada with an additional office in Montreal, Canada.

Shoplogix

Series B in 2007
Shoplogix develops real-time performance management solutions. It provides plantnode perform, an integrated hardware and software platform that helps manufacturers identify productivity opportunities through real-time capture and analysis of machine downtime. The company also offers plantnode outperform, a real-time performance management solution, which provides the infrastructure for mistake-proof manufacturing operations; and plantnode Enterprise, which collects real-time data across multiple lines, plants, and geographies, enabling standardization and comparison of efficiencies from job to job, plant to plant, or employee to employee.

First Coverage

Series A in 2006
First Coverage (formerly iSequent) is a privately-held Canadian company in the financial services industry. First Coverage provides a web-based technology, which was developed in collaboration with both the buy-side and sell-side to help money managers more efficiently generate alpha by eliminating the “noise” that they encounter on a daily basis, allowing them to focus on the people and information that matter most to their holdings.

CELLFOR

Venture Round in 2006
CellFor is the world's leading independent supplier of high technology seedlings to the global forest industry. Using plant biotechnology, which is the use of biological processes to manufacture products, CellFor identifies and produces genetically superior conifer seedlings without genetic modification.

Cube Route

Series B in 2005
Cube Route, Inc. provides demand logistics services for transportation organizations in North America. It offers information digitization, dispatch management, package tracking, and booking notification module services, as well as order management, planning and route/job optimization, real-time field data capture, tracking and visibility, and customer service and business intelligence solutions. The company serves beverage delivery, direct store delivery, foodservice, home delivery, on demand, and shippers and 3PL providers industries. Cube Route was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. As of December 6, 2006, Cube Route, Inc. is a subsidiary of Descartes Systems Group, Inc.

CELLFOR

Series C in 2005
CellFor is the world's leading independent supplier of high technology seedlings to the global forest industry. Using plant biotechnology, which is the use of biological processes to manufacture products, CellFor identifies and produces genetically superior conifer seedlings without genetic modification.

Cropsolution

Series C in 2005
Cropsolution uses chemistry technology to discover and develop agrochemicals to protect crops from diseases, weeds, and pests.

Edeal Services

Venture Round in 2002
edeal is a leading Marketplace Service Provider (MSP) that provides businesses of all sizes with complex, private label dynamic pricing e-marketplaces. Their online products are designed for promotions, liquidation, charity events, new sales channels, and core marketplaces. edeal is recognized as one of the world's most advanced online trading communities and is committed to providing business with increasingly sophisticated tools and services to maximize their auction productivity and enhance their e-commerce strategies.

Cropsolution

Series A in 2002
Cropsolution uses chemistry technology to discover and develop agrochemicals to protect crops from diseases, weeds, and pests.

Q9 Networks

Venture Round in 2000
Q9 Networks Inc. outsourced data centre infrastructure for information technology (IT) organizations. It offers outsourced data centre space and managed bandwidth services; and managed services, such as control panel, managed servers and firewall, managed load balancing, managed back-up and restore, and managed VPN services. The company was formerly known as Myna Communications, Inc. and changed its name to Q9 Networks Inc. in 2000. Q9 Networks Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

PixStream

Venture Round in 1999
PixStream is a technology company that engages in the development of video networking solutions. Their systems are designed to adapt TV signals to any type of network. The PixStream system consists of complete video head-ends that allows service providers to offer converged services over their existing networks. PixStream was founded by Marc Morin and Brad Siim in 1996; and is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario.

Descartes Systems Group

Venture Round in 1996
Descartes provides on-demand, software-as-a-service solutions focused on improving the productivity, performance, and security of logistics-intensive businesses.
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