Inovia Capital is a venture capital firm that works with founders to create influential and permanent businesses. The team leverages an operator mindset to provide founders with support, mentorship, and access to a worldwide network. Inovia manages over US$2.2B with operations in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, San Francisco, and London.

Inovia Capital

Hedgewood is the personal investment vehicle of long time internet entrepreneur Jesse Rasch. It invests using proprietary capital, allowing for longer investment horizons and a broad range of asset classes. Further, as a globally minded investor, Hedgewood actively pursues and engages in a wide variety of investment opportunities in Canada, the United States, and internationally.

Hedgewood

The Heron is known for its patience, standing still until the exact right moment to strike.   Heron Rock is a physical place, a rock outside our office where a Heron often chooses to rest, when not hunting.

Heron Rock Fund

Two Small Fish started as a way to recycle the experience, knowledge, and capital from our days as successful entrepreneurs to help the next generation of founders. What separates us from other venture firms is that each Two Small Fish partner is an engineer by training and an entrepreneur or operator by experience. We are proven serial entrepreneurs with multiple exits under our belt.

Two Small Fish Ventures

Essex Woodlands was founded in 1985 with the establishment of Essex Venture Fund I, LP. Since 1985, the Partnership has raised seven additional funds with nearly $2.5 billion under management, making Essex Woodlands one of the world's largest and most established healthcare venture capital firms. The team is comprised of 23 professionals with principal offices in Palo Alto, Houston, New York and London. This team brings over 300 years of collective healthcare experience.  For over 20 years, the firm has maintained its dedicated focus to diversified healthcare investing—primarily serving as lead investor in the founding or the critical financings of over 100 healthcare companies in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, services and information technology sectors. In addition to its long-standing commitment to early stage companies, the firm has over a decade of experience as a leading late-stage healthcare investor, which includes mature venture, growth equity and PIPE investment opportunities.

Essex Woodlands Healthcare Partners

[Metric](http://metric.io) is designed to make it easier than ever for brands to run smart promotions on any device with real time customer insight.  The product is designed to be fun and easy to use, giving brands access to real time customer data.  Metric is composed of three main features.  **Promotion Builder** Our promotion builder allows brands to create promotions in seconds using our drag and drop tools.  It's easy to drag on artwork, copy, data fields and social plugins in seconds.  Whilst you are building the promotion it is possible to get a live preview on your mobile devices of what the promotion will look like.  **Email** With our email builder we make it easy for brands to send out follow up emails to people who have entered promotions, we have a simple drag and drop builder which makes building great responsive emails a breeze.  **Livefeed** Our livefeed gives access to a live stream of customers who are interacting with promotions, giving access to a wide variety of information such as contact information, location, device or platform and gender.

Metric

Structure Capital help passionate teams build great companies by investing seed-stage capital, time, experience and relationships. Building a valuable company is hard—They've done it—they can help you do it too. They love helping entrepreneurs reach their dreams. They focus on companies that create a new market or new set of buyers by exploiting, capitalizing and profiting on under-utilized assets and excess capacity. Assets might include cars, houses, planes, airports, time, skills, knowledge, storage, transport, office space, hotel rooms, event space, personal property, and much, much more. they also like service and solutions companies that support these types of companies. As a team, they've invested at the early stage of many Unicorns, including Salesforce.com, Uber, Tesla, Facebook, Google and more. They're proud to be first round investors in Uber which is a Structure Capital portfolio company. 10 of their current portfolio have raised next round financing within 12 months of their round.

Structure Capital

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer-facing startups. Their investments are seed and series A. The investment range of the company is $50,000 to $5,000,000. It invests in Alibaba Group, Beepi, BrightRoll, Betterment, Adore Me, and Earnest.

FJ Labs

Conconi Growth Partners is committed to helping exceptional entrepreneurs build great companies.

Conconi Growth Partners

Plaza Ventures’ micro-fund model was designed to efficiently pool capital from the firms high-net-worth investor community into annual investment vehicles targeting a basket of Series A and Series B investments. These micro-funds have built a proven track record, backing successful entrepreneurs through multiple funding rounds. Half of each PV Fund is allocated to new companies with proven business models ($3M+ annual revenues) that are resistant to macro-economics and need capital to meet current demand. The remaining capital is re-invested into 4-5 successful businesses from prior funds. Plaza Ventures identifies as sector agnostic but has an affinity for, as well as expertise in enterprise SaaS, location-based services, IoT, Smart City, digital media, and marketplaces.

Plaza Ventures

CareGuide

CareGuide is a family of online services and our mission is simple: pair families and individuals with great care providers. With thousands of user profiles, you'll be able to find the best care provider for you, in your area, in just about any industry.

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    CareGuide is a Canadian company offering an online marketplaces which connects caregivers across North America with families in need of child care, pet care, elder care, and home-care services. The company also provides payroll services for individuals providing the above services. As of November 2020, the company has raised USD 13 million in funding. 
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Tech-enabled products used to diagnose, prevent, and treat conditions common among seniors.

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