Jacob Kessler

Founder, Partner, Producer, Business Builder

📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 17 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2021
VC🌍 Canada
4
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17y
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Dec 2021
Mantaro is an eCommerce business that acquires brands and launches consumer products, beginning with Amazon. We are a people-first organization that values learning and doing better everyday, and are on a voyage to help people make better choices through better products.
early stageManufacturing
Investor, Business Advisor
Apr 2019
Media Management Made Easy
Co-Founder, Investor
2013
Communities of Passion partners with the most trusted brands to help them leverage the power of unbiased dialogue by engaging with relevant prospects at the right place, at the right time and in the right way. pCommerce is the evolution of Brand Sustainability. pCommerce grants access to the most passionate influencers and provides the pre-built instant connection required to build a connected relationship. Communities of Passion, using pCommerce, will help you join niche community conversations, close your brand efficiency gap, access influencers and turn them into brand advocates. To grow you need to expand your prospects.
Experience · 16 entries
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Investments (3)
Founder (8)
2022
Director, Business Development, Account Management, Content Production, Partnerships
Sep 2022
The Brookfield Sustainability Institute is a global solutions studio focused on identifying, understanding, and developing smart sustainable solutions to help fight against the climate crisis. Working collaboratively with industry partners, governments, non-profits, faculty, and students, it aims to build a smart and sustainable future to help fight the climate crisis. After almost 20 years of fostering interdisciplinary collaboration to create innovative solutions to global challenges, the Institute without Boundaries (IwB) is now integrated within the new Brookfield Sustainability Institute (BSI).
2021
Investor
Dec 2021
Mantaro is an eCommerce business that acquires brands and launches consumer products, beginning with Amazon. We are a people-first organization that values learning and doing better everyday, and are on a voyage to help people make better choices through better products.
early stageManufacturing
2020
Business Advisor
May 2020
Independent media production house specializing in high-end factual content for multiple screen platforms.
early stageMedia Production
2019
Investor, Business Advisor
Apr 2019
Media Management Made Easy
2017
Partner
Apr 2017
Sterling Kessler Entertainment brings together a diverse track record of industry successes across: Intellectual property development; Intellectual property rights acquisition; Worldwide distribution; Live event production and promotion; Television programming; And web-based strategy and content creation. The team has core competencies in strategic planning, creative development, as well as managing multi-channel initiatives through hands-on production planning, integrated advertising, and operational fulfillment. The company currently holds intellectual property rights to a range of entertainment projects while continuing to develop its portfolio by targeting market-specific properties. A fundamental goal of the company is to maximise value in entertainment properties by capturing viewership, ticket sales and/or user-bases thereby generating impressions and revenue. The company not only creates winning opportunities for programmers, distributors or sponsors and works with its clients and partners to place those results, it can also show the way forward for content engagement across all channels of distribution. Sterling Kessler Entertainment is focused on maximising its relationships with television outlets, theatre venues & promoters, sponsors, internet channels and specialty entertainment agencies. The company is not a consumer-facing enterprise and is applying its expertise and turn-key capabilities to entertainment industry companies and high level corporate decision-makers as resources to achieve well defined objectives through content distribution and audience engagement.
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2009–2021 · 4 investments
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