Alexander Barclay

Started in 2020 by Dr. Saeed Darvish-Kazem and Dr. Sam Elfassy, KeyOps is a physician engagement platform that is transforming the relationship between physicians and life science companies. Based in Toronto, ON, it has grown to a team of 21 with thousands of physician members across Canada and The United States.

Basetwo is a venture-backed AI company helping pharma, specialty chemical, and cosmetics manufacturers bring products to full-scale production faster and with less risk. We give manufacturers a “digital twin” of their production process - a virtual replica that lets them simulate, test, and optimize manufacturing before running it in the real world. Instead of learning through costly mistakes on the plant floor, teams can predict performance, de-risk scale-up, and standardize tech transfer in advance. Basetwo is already deployed with leading global pharmaceutical, specialty chemical, and personal care manufacturers. We’re building the AI layer for manufacturing process development, scale-up and quality control - turning one of the slowest, riskiest parts of manufacturing into a predictable, data-driven process.

GrowerIQ is the first cannabis-specific platform to integrate all of the fragmented systems required by production facilities around the world. We have modules for every team: Cultivation, Manufacturing, Warehouse, CRM, Orders, and Quality Management. GrowerIQ has now become the operational backbone for producers around the globe - enabling true seed-to-sale traceability & enabling compliance with government regulations. Leave behind multiple software subscriptions for an all-in-one solution. Subscribe to our monthly newsletter today for the latest industry articles & GrowerIQ updates!

We build robots that make last-mile delivery faster, cheaper and greener. Tiny Mile robots are designed and custom-built for public sidewalks. Our robots are remotely-piloted and provide a contactless delivery option. Our team is committed to bringing innovative technologies to local communities safely and reliably. Since 2020, we’ve raised $10M in funding from investors who believe Tiny Mile has hit an inflection point. Some of our investors include Animo Ventures, Bedrock, Golden Ventures and Naspers.

Support our mission to create positive and tangible change in hiring. We’ve helped leading DEI-focused enterprises like IBM, Deloitte, Novartis, Shopify, and Education First reach incredible results: 25% increase in racial and gender diversity 22% increase in quality of hire 60% reduction in time and cost to hire Bonus: candidates love the Knockri experience! ✨How Knockri Works Knockri addresses diversity from the earliest stages of the talent acquisition process. Our platform integrates with your ATS to automatically administer and assess unlimited candidates at scale. Candidates are evaluated solely on their skills, avoiding adverse impact. Knockri is an asynchronous interview assessment tool that shortlists qualified candidates ethically and efficiently. We’ve merged proprietary Ethical AI and I/O Psychology to evaluate candidates during initial screening processes. Knockri is objective by design and fixated on merit, ensuring quality candidates don’t fall through the cracks. Book a demo today to learn more

Funnelytics is a revolutionary marketing analytics software that allows marketers and business owners to map and track their sales and marketing campaigns visually. With our collaborative canvas your team can get all the information you need in one place, and easily spot bottlenecks so your team can move quickly to solve them and maximize your traffic. It is clear that the industry has been longing for an analytics software like the one we’re building, and we can confidently say that we are well on our way to developing the most intuitive and easy-to-use marketing analytics software ever made!

Fluence provides the only purpose-built financial consolidation, close and reporting software for high growth companies. We give customers the time, confidence and performance they need by delivering game-changing efficiency gains and trusted, timely numbers. Fluence features out-of-the-box delivery, no-coding administration and a true Excel interface for quick deployment, adoption and time to value. With a cloud calculation engine decades in the making, built by a team with centuries of experience, our customers can count on us to meet their needs today and tomorrow. Welcome to Fluence...we close early.

Goodkind is the leading video-first student engagement platform. Send video messages to engage, excite and motivate prospective students to inquire, apply and accept. Learn more at www.goodkind.com

At Irwin, our focus is building software for investor relations. Our solutions are designed to boost productivity—from how you discover and connect with investors to monitoring shareholder changes and tracking every interaction with ease. We prioritize data quality, ensuring access to accurate information and insights you can act on, and automation across our solutions significantly reduces your time spent on routine tasks. At Irwin, we work as hard as you do, constantly innovating to keep pace with your evolving needs. We’re built for the IR professional.

At Irwin, our focus is building software for investor relations. Our solutions are designed to boost productivity—from how you discover and connect with investors to monitoring shareholder changes and tracking every interaction with ease. We prioritize data quality, ensuring access to accurate information and insights you can act on, and automation across our solutions significantly reduces your time spent on routine tasks. At Irwin, we work as hard as you do, constantly innovating to keep pace with your evolving needs. We’re built for the IR professional.

Lumeto enables the future of work through its advanced XR simulation, training and skills assessment platform, Involve XR. The platform enables institutions looking to deploy data-driven, enterprise-grade, immersive training and assessment across their workforce. The company currently operates across the health care and safety fields, enhancing learning outcomes tied to individual and team decision-making, problem-solving, de-escalation and complex procedures. Involve XR enables enhanced levels of learner assessment and benchmarking, providing learners an efficient way to remotely re-skill, up-skill and study in live, synchronous, immersive, scenario-based learning environments. Lumeto is based in Toronto, Canada, and employs a global workforce.

ProNavigator is the leading knowledge management platform for the insurance industry. Thousands of insurance professionals use ProNavigator daily by helping their back office store, manage and use their documents - like underwriting guidelines, wordings, and endorsements - that sit outside policy management systems or AMS’s. The award-winning platform leverages the latest advancements in artificial intelligence and natural language understanding to instantly, automatically, and accurately retrieve mission-critical insurance information. Learn more at pronavigator.ai

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Brickeye is a leading construction technology company dedicated to revolutionizing the construction and infrastructure industries through IoT-enabled job site monitoring, smart automations, and data analytics solutions. Trusted by leading owners, developers, general contractors, and insurance providers, Brickeye helps mitigate risk, boost productivity, and protect margins on building and infrastructure construction projects globally. The company’s end-to-end job site platform delivers actionable alerts and intelligent loss-reducing automations to help customers build safer, smarter, and better. Brickeye’s solutions cover several key areas of construction, including water mitigation, concrete monitoring, and environmental risk. To learn more about how Brickeye is advancing the construction industry through superior IoT technology and data analytics, visit www.brickeye.com.

Rare is a predictive email marketing solution for online stores that helps you send personalized product recommendations to your customers at the time they’re most likely to buy. We use your data to make sure you know who your most valuable customers are, and whos ripe to become your next best customer. Reward your top spenders, or encourage a customer thats gone cold - all automatically, and all when the timing is right.

Im an advisor for Seed-stage startup founders, supporting on everything from fundraising to product management. I’ve spent close to a decade making seed-stage venture investments in innovative technology startups spanning B2B SaaS, digital health, FinTech, AI/ML, NLP, CPM, Insurance, Retail, Construction, Supply Chain/Logistics, IoT, HR, Marketing, Video Telematics, Genomics, Surgical Devices, and more. I have deployed tens of millions of dollars across more than two dozen companies and served on over a dozen boards. The areas I tend to focus my on, in my work with founders, include business strategy, corporate development, product, unit economics, market segmentation, financing strategy, and transactions. I have also been active advising startup founders through Next Canada, Antler, and OneEleven. I have prior experience working with hardware & software across sectors from enterprise cloud development to healthcare hardware financing. As a business strategist and corporate finance engineer by training, Ive led large-scale projects focusing on creating value through legacy processes digitization in Europe and North America. I also teach the Venture Capital & Private Equity MBA course at the Schulich School of Business.

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Antler is one of the most active early-stage investors globally. The firm leads in ‘Day Zero’ investing, an approach to venture capital focused on partnering with founders pre-launch. Antler systematically removes capital and network constraints for early-stage technology entrepreneurs by providing co-founder matching, deep business model validation, initial capital, expansion support, and follow-on funding. The firm is present in 27 cities across most leading technology ecosystems globally and has made over 1,300 investments into early-stage startups. Antler has been repeatedly recognized by Pitchbook as the world’s most active angel and seed-stage investor.

Graphite Ventures is an early stage “seeding for scale” venture capital firm. Founded in 2008 as MaRS IAF, we are one of Canada’s most active and consistent VC firms, having invested in 175 companies over the past decade. We invest in early stage B2B SaaS, Fintech, Proptech, Digital Health and capital efficient hardware businesses. For more information please visit graphitevc.com, email at hello@graphitevc.com or follow @graphitevc on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Started in 2020 by Dr. Saeed Darvish-Kazem and Dr. Sam Elfassy, KeyOps is a physician engagement platform that is transforming the relationship between physicians and life science companies. Based in Toronto, ON, it has grown to a team of 21 with thousands of physician members across Canada and The United States.