Participated · Series A · Oct 2022

Voilà! is a SaaS workforce optimization platform founded in 2016 in Québec that offers scheduling, staff replacement, time and attendance tracking and flexible rules to accommodate various corporate structures and collective agreements. The platform leverages workforce mobility to help managers maximize shift coverage and optimize labor costs while remaining user-friendly for employees. Voilà! serves clients including Cook it, players in the Québec health network and SPAR Inc., and has sustained annual growth above 300%. The company plans to use the financing to accelerate growth in the United States and Canada and to expand its team, expecting to create more than 50 jobs and immediately hire at least 20 positions. Voilà! has also initiated industry-specific efforts, partnering with Connect&GO to unveil a dynamic workforce management initiative for the attractions and leisure sector. The product aims to address labor shortages by simplifying schedule management and improving workforce deployment and automation.

Participated · Series A · Oct 2022

Voilà! delivers a cloud platform that simplifies schedule management, staff replacements, and time and attendance tracking while leveraging workforce mobility to maximize shift coverage. The company was launched in 2016 by CEO Martin Ouellet. Its product targets operations that need dynamic workforce optimization and shift filling. Voilà! has partnered with Connect&GO to develop a dynamic workforce management initiative tied to attendance, with a launch planned around the IAAPA Expo in Orlando. The company plans to use its new funding to accelerate growth in the United States and Canada. No operating metrics were disclosed in the article. Voilà! builds a platform that streamlines employee scheduling and workforce optimization by putting employees at the centre of schedule creation. Launched in December 2018 by the team behind Taleo (acquired by Oracle in 2012) and led by founder Martin Ouellet, the company emphasizes employee-driven schedules to reduce absenteeism and turnover. More than 1,000 Canadian companies use Voilà!'s software to manage staff schedules, improve communication, and boost engagement. Data from the platform indicate a 65% reduction in absenteeism, a 10% reduction in turnover, and an 80% reduction in time required to manage schedules. The company plans to add major business intelligence capabilities to its product and to accelerate growth across Canadian and US markets. The new funding will also support hiring roughly 100 employees in Québec City and Montréal to help scale the product and go-to-market efforts.

Participated · Series A · Mar 2022

Selector offers a unified observability and network intelligence solution that integrates large language models, knowledge graphs, and causal reasoning to deliver real-time root-cause analysis, predictive maintenance, and automated remediation. The platform replaces siloed monitoring tools with a single pane of glass, giving operations teams contextual insights across cloud, network, and application layers. In 2025 the company’s cumulative annual recurring revenue reached 230 % of 2024 levels, marking its fourth consecutive year of doubling ARR, and new ARR booked jumped to 370 % of 2024. Approximately 80 % of its customers are Fortune 1000 firms, including three new Fortune 20 customers in manufacturing and healthcare. Selector has expanded globally via cloud marketplaces, regional partners, and an initial push into Japan. The firm recently secured eight foundational U.S. patents covering LLM training, causal inference, and network path intelligence, and it plans to launch an enhanced Agentic ChatOps capability for multi-turn reasoning. Headquartered in Santa Clara, Selector is backed by a roster of telecom and enterprise-focused investors.

Participated · Equity · Feb 2022

Empowerly is an edtech company that offers personalized college counseling, essay editing, financial planning, admissions reviews, internship prep and research mentorship. Its service model pairs students with a network of over 100 college counselors, former admissions officers, essay specialists and pre‑professional mentors. The company highlights a proprietary machine‑learning metric, the Empowerly Score, which evaluates extracurriculars, achievements, academics and essays to prioritize areas for improvement. Pricing varies by service, with comprehensive counseling packages typically $5,000 and above; anecdotal user reports of specific session costs appeared in the article. Empowerly is building out AI‑powered products and plans to launch its first mobile app in the U.S. by the end of 2024. The company has raised $15M in the current round and $30M in total to date. Empowerly is a San Francisco, CA-based data-driven education technology company that provides personalized college and career guidance to students and their families. It combines algorithms and human counselors to connect students with best-match counselors who have diverse academic backgrounds, including medicine, science, economics, and engineering, to assess competitiveness for top U.S. colleges, internships, and research programs. The company uses its Empowerly Score™, a predictive technology system that quantifies subjective material and offers a three-pronged evaluation of academics, essays, and extracurricular activities to give students a 360-degree view of competitiveness. Empowerly raised $10M in funding and intends to use the proceeds to grow product and engineering teams, invest in existing and new acquisition channels, and prepare for the launch of a mobile app. Backers named in the article include Goodwater Capital, FJ Labs, Scrum Ventures, Translink Capital, Azure Capital Partners, Spero Ventures, Thinkplus Ventures and Mentors Fund. Empowerly is a data-driven education technology platform that combines predictive machine learning algorithms with personalized college counseling to help students navigate U.S. college admissions. Its flagship feature, the Empowerly Score, quantitatively assesses academics, extracurriculars, and essays using models developed with former admissions officers and benchmarked against years of admitted student data. The platform also offers counselors, mock admissions-committee reviews, virtual extracurriculars, and internship opportunities at Silicon Valley startups. Empowerly says it has helped thousands of students, with 95% gaining admission to a top 50 U.S. college and 94% admitted to one of their top three choices. Founded in 2018, the company plans to expand service offerings and round out its team to drive growth and operational efficiencies using the new funding. Early users have been enthusiastic about the tool’s ability to quantify subjective materials and provide actionable insights to improve admissions competitiveness.

Participated · Seed · Dec 2021

GoodTrust operates a digital life and legacy platform built around a Digital Vault and services to organize online accounts, photos, documents, and other assets for heirs. Its core offerings include a Digital Vault, Digital Executor service, free will and directives, estate-planning documents, and tools for preserving life stories such as GoodTrust Memories and Last Goodbyes. The company has introduced consumer features like Singing Portraits (an AI-powered animated photo product built with D-ID) and launched will-creation and other legal directives at no extra cost; additional directives and a pet directive are planned. GoodTrust sells a premium plan (noted at $8/month) and pursues enterprise partnerships as a benefit for insurers, funeral and death-care providers, and employee/member organizations. The company reports 80,000 customers, about 15 employees, and partnerships including a Veterans Day offer with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. GoodTrust says it is expanding quickly and is adding more product features and integrations to serve both consumers and enterprise partners. GoodTrust closed a $2.3M seed funding round to support its digital-legacy platform. The company provides tools to manage online accounts, social media, financial accounts, photos, documents and more, and to designate and share access with loved ones or trusted third parties. It helps families of deceased individuals by memorializing social media pages, securing photos, stopping subscriptions and closing accounts. GoodTrust recently launched Last Goodbyes, a feature to create a time capsule with an email, social post or video to be shared after someone passes away. The founding team includes CEO Rikard Steiber, CTO Markus Thorsveldt, CFO Christian Lagerling and other ex-Googlers such as Scott Levitan and Daniel Sieberg. The company is based in Palo Alto, California.