Participated · Seed · Mar 2026

ROXFIT builds a digital platform that helps hybrid-fitness competitors train, simulate races, and analyse performance through AI-driven workout plans, pacing guidance, race simulations, and wearable integrations. Founded by entrepreneurs Ben Wilson and Joey Allott, the company focuses on the rapidly expanding HYROX community, positioning itself as the primary technology layer for this emerging sport. The app grew from 80,000 users in May 2025 to more than 260,000 users across 185 countries, demonstrating strong organic traction. Following the launch of Version 2, ROXFIT deepened its analytics features and integrations to serve both elite athletes and newcomers. With fresh capital, the startup intends to accelerate product development, grow its engineering and artificial-intelligence teams, and broaden its global ambassador network as well as partnerships with gyms and training communities. Prior funding includes an £800,000 pre-seed round that supported initial product creation and early international expansion. The latest raise brings the company’s total external funding to £2.7 million.

Participated · Seed · Mar 2024

RetinaLogik is a Calgary-based startup that has developed a VR-AI-powered platform and portable headset for eye care. The system enables essential tests, including visual field exams, while streamlining the testing process to improve patient comfort and clinic efficiency. The device is ISO-13485 and MDSAP certified and is FDA registered; it has received Health Canada Class II medical device approval. RetinaLogik says the system can reduce upfront equipment costs by up to 90% compared with traditional equipment and includes multilingual support to bridge clinic communication gaps. The company completed a $1.1M funding round and received support from investors and community partners. RetinaLogik plans to expand adoption across North America and beyond to close critical gaps in eye care, enable earlier detection and treatment, and prevent irreversible vision loss. RetinaLogik’s core product is a portable eye-test platform that uses a virtual reality headset and AI-driven analytics to collect and analyze visual field data. While wearing the headset, patients are guided through a tutorial in their own language and perform vision tests whose results can be reviewed remotely by specialists. The device is already deployed in clinics across Canada and has been used in partnerships to deliver testing in senior homes. Co‑founders Abdullah Sarhan and Julia St.Amand began work on the project in 2018 and built the first prototype in 2019 after years of iteration and clinic testing. With new funding, the company plans to scale its team, add new vision tests, support device sales, and pursue Class 2 certification from Health Canada. To date RetinaLogik has raised CA$1.7M in total funding, including the recent CA$783,000 pre‑seed round.

Led · Seed · Jun 2021

TROES Corp designs and manufactures modular Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and in-house cloud software to deliver turnkey “Microgrid-in-a-Box” solutions for commercial, industrial, and institutional customers. The company is developing a mobile portable EV charging project that integrates a 533 kWh BESS, a 50 kW solar array, two level 2 chargers, and a 100 kW DC fast charger mounted on a 53 ft flatbed truck with deployable solar panels and microgrid controls. The system is intended for non-urban environments to enable EV charging without permanent infrastructure and to reduce strain on existing power grids. TROES is partnering with U.S.-based Day & Night Solar on the demonstration and jointly applied for funding through the Ontario Vehicle Innovation Network (OVIN). The project has received funding support from the Ontario Centre of Innovation as part of a total $1.5 million raise. TROES says the program will help create hundreds of new jobs in Ontario and advance its goal of accelerating the transition from a centralized to a decentralized grid. TROES is a Battery Energy Storage and Microgrid Control technology firm offering New Energy solutions to commercial, industrial and institutional customers. The company uses patented modularized energy storage hardware and software to integrate renewable sources into existing infrastructure and to unlock projects for middle‑market project developers, power distributors, and power consumers. TROES is based in Markham, Ontario. In March 2021 the company completed a $1 million seed round to fund product development, sales expansion, and general corporate purposes. The seed financing was led by a Texas‑based family office and the York Angel Investor Group, with contributions from institutional funds including Artesian, High Park Angels, Launchub, OPN, New Brunswick Innovation Fund, Golden properties, BDC and others. In April the company also received non‑dilutive seed funding from Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC).

Participated · Seed · Jul 2020

Willful is an online platform that guides people through a series of questions to create customized legal wills and estate-planning documents drafted with provincial estate lawyers. The company offers free future updates so customers can keep wills current as life changes, and its fully digital notarial will in Quebec can be completed online without an in-person notary. Willful launched a pilot program for digital wills in British Columbia and the service is available in Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Manitoba. The company was co-founded in 2017 by Erin Bury and Kevin Oulds and operates with a 15-person team. Willful partners with estate lawyers in each province to draft and maintain legal content as legislation changes. The platform also supports appointment of executors and beneficiaries and provides instructions for executing wills in accordance with provincial requirements. Willful provides an online platform for Canadians to create legal wills and assign powers of attorney for personal care and/or property. The startup plans to use its new funding to launch products that make it easier for Canadians to prepare legacy plans and tools to help families wrap up a loved one’s affairs, and to invest in its partner program. Willful has partnerships with League, Wealthsimple, Sonnet Insurance, and CAA, and Tactico will help lead the company’s Quebec launch. The company reported a 600 percent increase in demand during COVID-19 and a threefold increase in revenue, and it has provided more than 2,500 free plans to frontline healthcare workers. Willful’s platform is available in Ontario, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Manitoba. The company was launched in 2017 and graduated from Real Ventures’ FounderFuel accelerator in 2019.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2016

PerfectlySoft develops the Perfect server-side Swift framework that lets developers write Swift on both the device and the server, removing traditional front-and-backend iOS development silos. Founded in 2015 and led by CEO Sean Stephens and CTO Kyle Jessup, the company introduced Perfect in November 2015. Perfect targets iOS, Mac OS and Linux environments and has promoted Swift education and community building through meet-ups, lectures and other events across the Greater Toronto Area and globally. The company closed a $1.5m seed funding round, having raised an additional $300k ahead of the close. Funds from York Angel Investors will be used to advance and scale PerfectlySoft's server-side architecture in anticipation of Apple's Swift 3.0 release later this year.