Chris S. R.

Founder + Managing Partner at Back Forty - investing in exceptional Canadian consumer retail brands

📍 Canada🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
VC🌍 Canada
5
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4
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6y
Years active

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Investor
2025
Fairgrounds is a free-to-join racket club that’s going to make North America’s fastest-growing sports Canada’s most popular ones. Fairgrounds represents a new era wherein sports clubs are democratized to include anyone who wants to be active, regardless of age, athletic ability or socioeconomic status.
Seed Investor + Board Observer
2023
Founded in 2019 by Jessica Walsh and Anita Chan, Formula Fig is a pioneer of experience-led, science-forward skincare destinations that transform your everyday. Our immersive, award-winning locations (Fig Bars) offer an innovative range of 30-minute, technology-driven facial treatments, neuromodulators and IV injections, all delivered by trusted medical professionals, alongside a curated assortment of skincare products. Uniquely female-founded, owned, and operated, we are powered by our deep beliefs in community, design, and service - helping all our guests #GiveAFig about their skin. Come say hello in Los Angeles, Toronto, or Vancouver - wed love to see your face.
Investor + Board Member
2021
Monos is a Canadian travel and lifestyle brand offering timeless, premium goods for the mindful traveller. Our name is inspired by the Japanese concept ‘mono no aware’, the profound appreciation of the beauty of fleeting moments. We believe that when we fully immerse ourselves in the here and now, the deeper beauty of the world reveals itself, and our experiences become so much richer. Our designs seek to inspire people to travel in a mindful and present way – to embrace the journey of each day with curiosity and a sense of wonder. With our ‘less is more’ approach and emphasis on high-quality craftsmanship that stands the test of time, we’ve made it our mission to create thoughtfully designed, functional travel pieces to aid in your passionate wanderings, wherever it might lead you. We are a people-centric company, valuing the connections we make from our travels, collaborations, factory partnerships, and customer service. We believe that genuine human connection and understanding are the keys to travelling well, doing good business, and living a good life.
mid stageRetail
Investor + Board Member
2021
At Diggs, we believe dogs and their humans deserve the very best. Thats why we design for both pets and people and create innovative products that your dog will love to use and you will love to have in your home. Our team is made up of passionate pet parents and animal lovers who care deeply about safety, good design, and solving real problems. Each decision we make is rooted in our mission to improve the lives of pets everywhere. Our Revol crate has been featured in Apartment Therapy, Forbes, Rover.com, and more. We’ve reimagined the crate training experience already––and were just getting started.
mid stageManufacturing
Experience · 9 entries
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2025
Investor
2025
Fairgrounds is a free-to-join racket club that’s going to make North America’s fastest-growing sports Canada’s most popular ones. Fairgrounds represents a new era wherein sports clubs are democratized to include anyone who wants to be active, regardless of age, athletic ability or socioeconomic status.
2023
Seed Investor + Board Observer
2023
Founded in 2019 by Jessica Walsh and Anita Chan, Formula Fig is a pioneer of experience-led, science-forward skincare destinations that transform your everyday. Our immersive, award-winning locations (Fig Bars) offer an innovative range of 30-minute, technology-driven facial treatments, neuromodulators and IV injections, all delivered by trusted medical professionals, alongside a curated assortment of skincare products. Uniquely female-founded, owned, and operated, we are powered by our deep beliefs in community, design, and service - helping all our guests #GiveAFig about their skin. Come say hello in Los Angeles, Toronto, or Vancouver - wed love to see your face.
2021
Investor + Board Member
2021
Monos is a Canadian travel and lifestyle brand offering timeless, premium goods for the mindful traveller. Our name is inspired by the Japanese concept ‘mono no aware’, the profound appreciation of the beauty of fleeting moments. We believe that when we fully immerse ourselves in the here and now, the deeper beauty of the world reveals itself, and our experiences become so much richer. Our designs seek to inspire people to travel in a mindful and present way – to embrace the journey of each day with curiosity and a sense of wonder. With our ‘less is more’ approach and emphasis on high-quality craftsmanship that stands the test of time, we’ve made it our mission to create thoughtfully designed, functional travel pieces to aid in your passionate wanderings, wherever it might lead you. We are a people-centric company, valuing the connections we make from our travels, collaborations, factory partnerships, and customer service. We believe that genuine human connection and understanding are the keys to travelling well, doing good business, and living a good life.
mid stageRetail
Investor + Board Member
2021
At Diggs, we believe dogs and their humans deserve the very best. Thats why we design for both pets and people and create innovative products that your dog will love to use and you will love to have in your home. Our team is made up of passionate pet parents and animal lovers who care deeply about safety, good design, and solving real problems. Each decision we make is rooted in our mission to improve the lives of pets everywhere. Our Revol crate has been featured in Apartment Therapy, Forbes, Rover.com, and more. We’ve reimagined the crate training experience already––and were just getting started.
mid stageManufacturing
2020
Founder + Managing Partner
2020
We care, deeply. What feels like play to us, might feel like work to others. We are high energy and choose to be positive. We believe that balance comes not from working less, but from living an integrated life. We continually choose to stay up late, while striving to wake up earlier. We love to connect dots – consumer trends, business, economics, politics, and history. We also love to connect people and build communities. Our team will challenge the consensus and identify false alternatives to find a better way. We are fiercely competitive but openly collaborative, confident yet humble, big thinkers but roll-up-our-sleeves doers. We know that creating something unique requires taking risks, so we value outspoken contrarians. Yet we know that building scale requires forming consensus, so we listen with empathy to find common, higher ground. We believe that sustained performance requires a systematic approach. You not only have to win, but deserve victory through the ideas you develop, habits you cultivate, and the company you keep. When we find leaders that share our passion, mindset, and approach, we have found a partner. We operate with a core belief that a team of talented people from unique backgrounds, with shared values and the right incentives, will deliver differentiated outcomes. This is what we live for – to form partnerships with extraordinary leaders and build companies that deliver distinctive services and products for consumers, patients, and students.
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