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Loyal VC

103 Cottingham St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Overview

Loyal runs a global venture fund with quarterly redemptions and a proprietary gate-stage process, reducing investment bias and unlocking greater returns. Partnered with INSEAD, Founder Institute, and 1000+ advisors, with 350+ investments in 60+ countries. We are a bit of an unusual fund with very specific referral partners for all of our sourcing, so unfortunately, unless your startup is from these sources, it will fall outside of our mandate. The three are: Founder Institute – we fund selected graduates referred by their directors, INSEAD – we fund selected INSEAD graduates, after diligence calls with their network, and Investors in our fund can tell us how to allocate some of their investment. In the longer term as our fund grows, we plan to be able to accept founders referred from additional sources, or someday even direct applicants. We can’t yet. If you don’t have one of the three referrers above, it doesn't make sense to discuss an initial investment. See if you are eligible to apply for funding here: https://www.loyal.vc/loyal-portfolio/prospective-founders

Total investments
16
Lead investments
4
Investments · 12mo
1
Active investors
6
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Investment portfolio

  • Wastetide

    Participated · Equity · Nov 2025

    Founded in October 2023 by Nicolas Brien, Wastetide has developed a patented, AI-powered application that lets industrial operators photograph a piece of waste and instantly receive its current resale price and associated carbon-savings if recycled. The platform targets the rapidly growing stream of electronic waste from data centers and other industrial sites, a market the company estimates will be worth roughly $10 billion in recyclable materials by 2030. In its first year, the solution has been deployed in 30 data centers across five countries and is already used regularly by more than 2,000 users at 12 corporate clients, including Renault, Air France Industries, and Siemens. The software supports metals, fiberglass, plastics, and other materials, turning regulatory waste-sorting obligations into economic opportunities for customers. Wastetide’s technology addresses two major trends highlighted in its own global study: the mineral-intensive shift to green energy equipment and the accelerated obsolescence of hardware driven by generative AI. With fresh capital, the startup plans to enhance its AI model and expand to additional industrial verticals. The company positions itself as a key enabler of “urban mining,” aiming to replace the word “waste” with “secondary materials” in its clients’ vocabulary.

  • Bagel AI

    Participated · Seed · Apr 2025

    Bagel AI provides a product intelligence platform that helps companies unify fragmented customer data—feedback, usage patterns, and internal reports—into clear, actionable insights. Its AI-driven models help product and GTM teams identify gaps, pain points, and emerging trends across the product lifecycle. The platform integrates with tools including Jira, Gong, Salesforce, and Zendesk. Founded in 2022 by Ohad Biron, Itai Danino, and Yuval Nachman, the company is based in Herzliya, Israel. Bagel AI will use the $5.5M seed proceeds to enhance platform capabilities, strengthen team alignment tools, and accelerate customer-centric product development through AI. The product is positioned to centralize fragmented signals to improve product decision-making across teams.

  • Ambr

    Participated · Seed · Jun 2023

    Ambr builds burnout prevention software that analyses anonymised and aggregated organisational data to identify root causes of burnout and alert management. The product is grounded in the latest academic research on organisational burnout prevention. It is aimed at high-pressure sectors such as professional services and tech scaleups, but can be used by any desk-based teams of more than five employees. Led by CEO Zoe Stones, the company plans to use the new funding to further develop its software. The articles do not disclose revenue or user metrics. Ambr is based in London, UK.

  • FAIRLY AI

    Participated · Equity · Apr 2023

    Fairly AI offers an oversight and risk-management platform designed to automate risk management in AI model development. Its software provides information reporting and testing, policy management, and built-in controls for fairness and bias testing. The platform is intended to help technology and policy experts connect and apply policies early in the development process and maintain controls throughout the product lifecycle. Fairly AI positions itself to help firms proactively comply with regulations and mitigate safety and privacy concerns. The company says the recent funds will be used to grow sales and marketing. Fairly AI was incorporated in April 2020 and operates globally with headquarters in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario.

  • Accacia

    Participated · Seed · Dec 2022

    Accacia offers an AI-enabled SaaS platform that integrates with Property Management, Energy Management and Procurement systems to automate real-time data capture, track emissions and recommend decarbonisation strategies at asset and portfolio level. The company was founded in 2022 by INSEAD alumni Annu Talreja, Piyush Chitkara and Jagmohan Garg and is based in Singapore. Its platform has already been deployed across more than 25 million square feet of real estate. Accacia positions itself to help clients comply with new carbon-reporting expectations such as recent SEC and SGX announcements by providing comprehensive, real-time climate risk data. The company says the product is designed to address both construction and operational emissions and to be a quick, affordable route for real estate firms to pursue net-zero pathways. Accacia has signaled plans to scale globally in response to rising regulatory and investor demand for climate-risk metrics. Accacia offers a SaaS platform that enables large property owners and asset managers to track real-time carbon emissions by integrating with ERPs and property management systems. The platform measures Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 emissions for real estate, including embodied carbon, financed emissions and operational emissions across asset classes such as commercial, retail, multifamily housing and data centers. It is used by REITs, pension and sovereign funds, developers and consulting firms helping clients meet net-zero goals. Accacia has been deployed to more than 20 million square feet of real estate in Asia. The company was founded in 2022 by Annu Talreja, Piyush Chitkara and Jagmohan Garg; Talreja previously spent over 15 years in real estate with firms including AECOM and Marriott. Accacia announced $2.5 million in seed funding to support expansion across Southeast Asia, the Middle East, the United States and Canada.

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