Participated · Seed · Apr 2022

Wavy is a culture management platform that acts as a central hub enabling people leaders to plan flexible events, collaborate across teams, track spend and engagement, and measure the impact of culture and team-building initiatives. Co-founded by Shawn Hewat (CEO) and Neshay Ahmed (CTO), the company also operates an Experience Marketplace launched in 2020 that offers experiences across food, drink, games, arts, wellness, and entertainment. Wavy says its platform helps companies attract new hires, create a sense of community, increase employee satisfaction, and improve retention by engaging employees in the culture development process and ensuring visibility of efforts across teams. The company has worked with hundreds of customers including high-growth tech companies such as Wattpad, FundThrough, Guusto, Relay Financial, and Achievers, and large enterprises including Intuit, Shopify, Deloitte and Intact. With the CAD$2.5M seed raise, Wavy plans to accelerate development of its culture platform, grow its global team, expand its marketplace of experience creators, and pursue a goal to engage one million employees across its customer base.

Participated · Series C · Jan 2022

1Password provides an Extended Access Management platform that secures credentials and identities for both individual users and more than 175,000 business customers, including over two-thirds of the Forbes AI 50. The service delivers password management, secrets automation, and broader identity security capabilities to millions of users worldwide. In 2025 the company expanded its roadmap by launching Agentic AI Security to help enterprises govern AI automation and by releasing an MCP server that adds SaaS visibility to AWS-native workflows. 1Password also partnered with Perplexity’s Comet browser to supply safer AI browsing and introduced Agentic Autofill with Browserbase to give AI agents a secure credential layer for real-time decisions. These product moves signal a deeper push into AI-centric security use cases and cloud integrations. The company’s scale and continued platform expansion underpin a reported $6.8 billion valuation following its latest secondary transaction.

Participated · Equity · Sep 2021

Bird & Be offers direct-to-consumer, personalized at-home kits designed to optimize fertility outcomes for people with sperm and eggs. The company optimizes care through two pillars: Education (content and patented early screening diagnostics) and Action (custom supplements, prescriptions and a referral network). Bird & Be introduced its signature line of supplements in July. It plans to launch at-home tools this fall, including a patent-pending urine stick Ovarian Reserve test, pregnancy, ovulation and sperm tests. The company aims to break down barriers to access via information, affordable products, and digitizing basic protocols to accelerate time to care. Bird & Be announced a $1.8M financing round led by BAM Ventures.

Participated · Safe · May 2021

Snack is a video-driven dating app that combines familiar dating matching algorithms with short-form video expression, described as "TikTok meets dating." The app enables users to share videos to match, communicate, and build connections, prioritizing authentic, mobile-first expression. Founder and CEO Kim Kaplan worked with Gen Z technologists during branding and product development. Snack is available on iOS in the U.S., Canada, UK, Australia and South America, with plans to launch on Android in 2021. The company is building a community-driven approach, including a Gen Z Syndicate to involve young investors, team members, and consultants in the product. Recent financings (a $2M US SAFE and a prior $3.5M pre-seed) underpin near-term growth plans. The new funding is intended to accelerate marketing and hiring to grow the business. Snack is a video-first dating app that asks users to create short videos and post them to a scrollable feed rather than relying on traditional swipe-based profiles. Users can like and comment on videos, and direct messages open once two users have liked each other's videos. The app is early-stage and currently lacks location filtering, but the team is building TikTok-like video editing features to enable more creative profiles. Snack has discussed monetization plans that mirror other dating apps, including premium subscriptions and potential advertising, though it is not yet monetized. Thus far the company has raised external funding to support growth and product development. The team is ten people and the startup reports that 60% of the team is diverse, with 40% of employees being visible minorities.

Participated · Seed · Apr 2021

Heirlume offers a machine-powered trademark registration platform that uses AI and machine learning to surface conflicts across U.S. and Canadian government databases and improve application compliance. The product turns trademark search and filing into a self-serve, lower-cost process, with the company offering its core trademark search for free in early days. Heirlume charges just under CA$600 for the first registration and CA$200 for each additional filing, and provides a small-business friendly buy-now-pay-later option via Clearbanc. The platform aims to reduce human error and government backlogs by producing highly compliant applications and to make trademark ownership accessible to small businesses. Heirlume has a partnership with Google Domains to surface trademarkability signals in domain search results. The founders (Julie MacDonell, CTO Sarah Ruest and Dave McDonell) have intentionally built a cap table and team emphasizing underrepresented and female-identifying members.