Led · Seed · Dec 2021

GoodGood operates a local-first commerce platform that pairs instant delivery with physical pop-up cafés and wine bars to help small craft food and drink makers reach customers. The startup launched its website in late 2021 and opened a pop-up café in Toronto’s King-West neighbourhood on December 6. It combines a customer-facing e-commerce product with a maker-focused platform and plans to invest in product engineering and a mobile app slated for Q1 2022. With C$6.5 million in all-equity seed financing, the company intends to scale its network of cafés and wine bars—targeting five to ten openings across Toronto in 2022—and expand its maker partnerships. GoodGood currently lists mostly Canadian products (three quarters Canadian, many from Ontario/GTA), employs about 10 people, and plans to grow headcount to 30–50 by summer 2022. Long-term, the founders aim to broaden the model to additional local markets across Canada.

Participated · Equity · Oct 2020

Figment builds and operates secure blockchain infrastructure that lets institutions, protocol teams, and developers stake tokens, run nodes, and access governance and analytics tools through a single platform. The company focuses on simplifying participation in proof-of-stake networks while maintaining high standards of security, reliability, and transparency. Its services include turnkey node operations, staking-as-a-service, and dashboards that surface on-chain data and governance insights. Figment generates revenue by charging fees on staking rewards and providing enterprise-grade infrastructure services. Although specific financial metrics were not disclosed, the firm has attracted institutional demand strong enough to secure new capital. The fresh funding will be used to expand operations and accelerate product development, enabling Figment to support more protocols and larger client volumes. By continually upgrading its infrastructure and tools, Figment aims to remain a foundational partner for institutions entering the staking and broader Web3 ecosystem.

Participated · Equity · Sep 2018

Veridium Labs builds a tokenized carbon offset solution that turns carbon credits into tradable digital assets and automates corporate carbon accounting and offsetting. The company uses proprietary carbon accounting protocols developed by EcoSmart Labs and says its protocol also offsets the emissions associated with the digital token itself. Veridium aims to address liquidity, expiration dates, price variation, and multiple verification-standard issues in current carbon markets, and to simplify transaction reconciliation. It has partnered with IBM to build tokenized carbon credit markets and targets Fortune 500 and enterprise users. Veridium announced strategic lead token purchases totaling $5 million just before the start of its presale, indicating early investor interest as it prepares to launch its market product.

Participated · Seed · Jul 2018

CapLinked operates a cloud platform for information sharing and collaboration used globally by thousands of companies in 113 countries for financial transactions, business development, due diligence, legal compliance, and secure file retention. The company develops proprietary information-control software and is building TransitNet, a blockchain-based product aimed at the emerging tokenized equity market (STOs). TransitNet is intended to provide post-issuance services and tools to manage reporting, governance, and title verification. The service will be accessible to issuers and token investors as well as service providers and financial institutions that access data on behalf of their clients. CapLinked raised $2.5M in seed funding to advance its blockchain product serving STOs. The company was founded in 2010 and is led by CEO Eric M. Jackson, COO Chris Grey, and newly added CRO David Madden; its investors include Peter Thiel and Founders Fund. CapLinked provides a cloud platform built for integrated, secure workflow management and document collaboration on business deals, projects, and other multi-company collaborations. The software is used by many corporations, private equity funds, and professional service firms. Clients listed include Lending Club, Ernst & Young, Sunbelt Business Brokers, Competitive Power Ventures, FTI Consulting and Brookline Bank. CapLinked closed a $3.5M funding round led by Subtraction Capital, with participation from Indicator Ventures and financing that included venture debt from Western Technology Investment. The company previously raised $4M from Founders Fund’s FF Angel and 500 Startups. It intends to use the funds to expand its sales and marketing efforts. CapLinked operates a SaaS platform that allows companies to manage complex, sensitive interactions including asset sales, financings, and mergers. The solution enables confidential communication and data exchange and features flexible permission controls, activity reports, virtual data rooms (VDRs), secure email, support for flash drives, and FTP. The company counts clients such as Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, Thomson Reuters, Sun Capital, NextView Ventures, Edwards Lifesciences, Draper and Kramer, and Proprietary Capital. CapLinked raised $1M in funding and intends to use the proceeds to expand operations. The platform is positioned for transactions that require tight security and controlled access to documents. The company was founded in 2010 by Eric M. Jackson and Christopher Grey and is based in Manhattan Beach, Calif. CapLinked builds online workspaces and virtual data rooms that let deal parties communicate and exchange files securely. Its platform is used for transactions such as mergers and acquisitions and for investor reporting. The company positions itself as an easier-to-use, cheaper alternative to major virtual data room providers. Named customers include Thomson Reuters, Sun Capital, and NextView Ventures. Co-founder and CEO Eric Jackson said he used CapLinked software to manage this very deal. After the latest addition to its Series A, CapLinked has raised a total of more than $3 million. CapLinked offers online workspaces and virtual data rooms designed to simplify and secure business transactions. The platform targets use cases such as fundraising, commercial real estate, M&A, and business development. Customers include financial institutions, M&A advisors, real estate funds, and startups. CapLinked positions itself as an alternative to expensive, cumbersome virtual data rooms and insecure email, and has released tools to make it easier to use CapLinked alongside AngelList. The company says it has topped $20 billion in total deals hosted on the site. Leadership changes include hiring Adam Sroka as vice president of technology, and the company is led by co-founder and CEO Eric Jackson.