Participated · Equity · Aug 2022

ZayZoon operates an Earned Wage Access platform for SMBs that lets employees get paid whenever and offers employer-facing tools that the company says take 30 minutes to implement and are free for employers. The platform includes educational resources and tools intended to help workers break the paycheck-to-paycheck cycle; ZayZoon reports 89% of users experience less financial stress and employers see a 29% reduction in turnover. The company emphasizes product-market fit with SMBs and says it has grown its business by almost a factor of eight in the last two years. ZayZoon positions its offering as a recruitment, retention and financial-betterment tool for small business leaders. Management states the new financing will support continued growth, innovation, and geographic and product expansion. The company has a stated goal of saving 10 million people $10 billion through its services. ZayZoon provides an Earned Wage Access (EWA) and financial empowerment platform for small and mid-sized businesses, enabling employees to access wages on demand and offering educational resources to reduce financial stress. The platform is free for employers, integrates with payroll and HR systems, and supports payout options including bank deposits, debit cards, and fee-free options like Instant Gift Cards and Gas Cards. ZayZoon has seen more than 400% year-over-year growth in payouts and serves franchisees and locations such as Dunkin’, McDonald’s, and Amazon Warehouses, as well as corporate customers like LIDS. Customers report outcomes including 89% of employees experiencing less financial stress and employers seeing a 29% reduction in turnover. The company emphasizes seamless integrations and was named an ADP and PrismHR Marketplace Partner of the Year in 2023. The recent financing will support recruiting, continued growth and innovation, and enhancements to resources and features for employees and employers, particularly in hospitality, retail, and food service. ZayZoon offers an earned wage access (EWA) platform that allows small- and medium-sized businesses to let employees draw part of accrued wages before their payroll date. The service is free for employers; ZayZoon funds early wage requests itself to mitigate employer risk and charges workers a $5 fee to access up to $200 (the company also offers a prepaid Visa card that eliminates the fee). Workers still receive full pay at the end of each cycle and can link bank accounts for spending insights and alerts. ZayZoon says over 3,000 businesses offer the service and that 25%–45% of a workforce may access it regularly; named customers include Sonic, McDonald’s, Domino’s, and Hilton franchisees. The company positions itself as a socially responsible alternative to payday loans while acknowledging regulatory scrutiny of EWA products. With new capital, ZayZoon plans product development and market expansion and intends to grow headcount from about 60 to 85 employees by year-end. Its data and optional rewards program (ZayZoon Boost) involve sharing user information with partners for gift-card payouts, and users can request data deletion via customer support. ZayZoon partners and integrates with payroll companies and employers to deliver a financial wellness platform featuring access to Early Wages On-Demand. The platform gives employees control over their paychecks and aims to enhance productivity. Its Early Wages service is available to more than 2 million employees across North America. Founded in 2014 by Darcy Tuer (CEO) and Tate Hackert (President), the company builds payroll-integrated employee financial solutions. ZayZoon plans to use the new financing to continue expanding its business reach.

Participated · Series A · Nov 2021

StellarAlgo offers a customer cloud platform and flagship Customer Data Platform (CDP) underpinned by a modern data warehouse, serving sports, entertainment and live audience organizations. Its proprietary machine‑learning models are trained on over 40 billion interaction data points across more than 100 million unique records. The platform helps teams, leagues, sponsors and live-event properties monetize live audiences through insights-driven sales, marketing and analytics capabilities. StellarAlgo serves customers in North America and Europe and plans to expand commercial partnerships with brands supporting teams and leagues. The company intends to use new capital to continue growth of its cloud-based solutions and to extend its presence by opening headquarters in the United States and Europe. Financially, StellarAlgo completed a $16.5M Series A and has raised $19.0M to date. StellarAlgo offers a SaaS customer data platform that integrates online and in‑person sources (ticketing, email, etc.), builds fan profiles, and uses machine learning to help teams and live-audience businesses segment and personalize outreach. The company was founded in 2016 and operates with a team of about 25. It works with more than 50 customers, including the Vancouver Canucks, LA Kings, LA Galaxy, Vegas Golden Knights, and Portland Trail Blazers, and reported 180% year‑over‑year growth in 2019. COVID‑19 paused much live‑event activity and slowed new customer acquisition, but StellarAlgo says it has not lost any customers and signed additional MLB and NHL teams during the pandemic. The startup offered payment deferrals to customers, cut five mainly sales/marketing roles (about 16% of the team), and received the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy to retain staff. Plans for the new funding include doubling down on platform development and automation, expanding integrations with brand partners and sponsors, and hiring in sales, marketing, and customer success, with potential geographic expansion interest from Europe and Australia. StellarAlgo offers a proprietary customer data platform and machine learning-powered notification system (StellarMoments™) that helps sports franchises and live-entertainment organizations collect, organize, and act on fan data to optimize pricing, retention, and customer acquisition. The platform is used by professional teams and events including the Portland Trail Blazers, the Vancouver Canucks, the LA Galaxy, the US Open Tennis, and clients in live entertainment such as MoPOP. The company’s algorithms drive predictive insights and real-time prioritization so customers can connect with fans at the right time and generate ROI in revenue and engagement. StellarAlgo says the new capital will allow it to scale its sales and growth strategy and significantly expand its existing client base of professional sports teams and entertainment organizations. The firm plans to extend its advanced analytics offerings to include better predictive modelling and forecasting of ticket sales opportunities. The company was founded by Vincent Ircandia, who previously led customer data teams at AEG Sports, the LA Kings, and the Portland Trail Blazers.

Participated · Series A · Sep 2020

Athennian provides cloud software that powers legal, tax and finance teams to digitize, streamline and manage business entities and company structures. Its platform enables clients to manage and automate workflows for ownership, governance, tax, and corporate compliance. Led by CEO Adrian Camara, the company serves over 2,500 users and manages nearly 400,000 business entities on its platform. Over the last 24 months Athennian reports a 500% increase in annual recurring revenue. The company is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, maintains a second office in Toronto, and has additional team members located across the U.S. It intends to use new funding to continue a proactive approach to scaling the business. Athennian provides a cloud-based legal entity management platform used by legal departments and professional services firms to automate subsidiary and entity management and improve compliance, governance, and transactional workflows. The platform leverages data to generate reports and tax charts, produce required documents (share certificates, minutes, stock and dividend transactions, changes of directors or officers), submit registrations digitally, provide reminders for annual filings, and automate workflows with document assembly, eSignature, and e-filing directly with government registries. Athennian also offers rapid migration from many legacy databases, including Diligent Entities (Blueprint), GEMS, Secretariat, hCue, Effacts, Viewpoint, ALF, CorpLink, EnAct, GlobalAct, and others. Led by CEO Adrian Camara, the company will use new capital to increase the size of its global team, invest in product development, and expand its cloud-based services. The article states the company is based in Calgary, Canada. Athennian has raised CAD$17M in venture capital financing to date. Athennian develops a cloud-based legal entity management software platform used by legal departments and professional services firms to automate subsidiary and entity management. The platform integrates document generation, eSignatures, e-filing, and project management to automate workflows such as entity formation, appointments, transactions, and annual compliance. It offers rapid migration from legacy databases including Diligent Entities (Blueprint), GEMS, Secretariat, hCue, Effacts, Viewpoint, ALF, CorpLink, EnAct, GlobalAct, EnGlobe, FastCompany, Corporate Focus, and more. Led by CEO Adrian Camara and based in Calgary, Canada, the company serves a growing global customer base. Athennian has raised $10M in total — a $2M seed in Q3 2019 and an $8M Series A — and intends to use the proceeds to accelerate product-led growth and scale its cloud infrastructure.

Participated · Series A · Jul 2020

Orpyx builds the Sensory Insole system that integrates multi-modal sensor technology with a dedicated team of specialized nurses to enable continuous remote monitoring of plantar pressure, temperature, activity, and adherence. The system is used to prevent diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) and lower-limb amputations by empowering patients with personalized remote care. Orpyx partners with U.S. health plans and organizations such as the Veterans Health Administration to deploy its solution. The company announced an additional $20 million in growth capital to accelerate its commercial efforts and expand patient access. Orpyx positions itself as a leader in DFU and amputation prevention and emphasizes improving mobility and healthspan for people with diabetes and peripheral neuropathy. The company lists New York and Calgary, Alberta in its announcement and focuses on scaling clinical and payer relationships. Orpyx Medical Technologies develops the Orpyx SI Sensory Insoles, a sensory insole with telemedicine capabilities that delivers real-world plantar pressure feedback and real-time analytics to help prevent diabetic foot and neuropathy-related ulcers. The technology also provides clinical-grade plantar pressure data for researchers in sports medicine, therapeutic applications and footwear design. Led by Dr. Breanne Everett, CEO and co‑inventor, the company plans to use new funding to expand North American commercialization and to broaden and accelerate technology development. Orpyx is based in Calgary, Canada. The company closed a $7.6M Series A round in 2020, bringing total funding since inception to $18.5M.

Participated · Equity · Sep 2019

VEERUM develops a visual operations platform that lets industrial teams access, analyze, and collaborate on rich 3D and geospatial data for their assets. In 2025 the company highlighted major product roll-outs, including VisOps, an advanced shutdown and turnaround planning suite, and the VEERUM 3DVAULT for centralized geospatial data management and governance. It also introduced a single-tenant VEERUM DigitalTWIN offering to further enhance data security and scalability for clients. VEERUM positions these offerings as critical as industrial operators face rising risk, shrinking margins, and increasingly complex facilities. The firm has earned multiple workplace accolades, achieving Great Place to Work certification three years running and being named a 2023 Best Workplace in Alberta. Financially, VEERUM bolstered its growth plans with a $12 million Series B round aimed at cementing its visual operations standard across industry. No revenue or user figures were disclosed in the articles, but the funding signals continued investment in product expansion and market penetration.