James Povitz

Principal at NAventures, National Bank of Canada’s Corporate Venture Capital Arm

📍 Canada🔄 Updated September 2026💼 12 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2024
VC🌍 Canada
12
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Portfolio

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Board Observer
Jul 2024
nesto is on a mission to offer a positive, empowering and transparent property financing experience, simplified from start to finish. Powered by the most advanced technology, we screen the whole market in seconds to find the most affordable mortgage while our commission-free experts provide you with unbiased support along the process. Simply, welcome to the bright future of home buying.
Board Observer
Jul 2022
Ownly helps agents, brokers, and builders sell homes faster and easier directly through their website.
Board Observer
May 2022
At Walnut, we’ve cracked the nut on insurance and digitally flipped the traditional insurance model. Were embedding insurance into the products and services that you love.
early stageInsurance
Board Observer
May 2022
OneVest is a financial technology company on a mission to power the world’s wealth. It offers an end-to-end wealth management platform, from client onboarding, to portfolio management, to analytics and beyond. OneVest’s software was built to be modular, allowing financial institutions to fill gaps in their process depending on their needs.
Board Observer
Feb 2022
ClearEstate wants to change the way estates are settled. Settling an estate can take months and cost thousands of dollars, thereby making an emotionally taxing process even more difficult for estate executors. To make matters worse, executors are often left to their own devices and forced to figure it out as they go. We know there’s a better way. By creating a tech-enabled, end-to-end solution for estate settlements, we want to disrupt the inefficient status-quo and empower independent executors by automating administrative tasks, reduce the unnecessary involvement of licensed professionals in order to save costs, and educate executors and beneficiaries in order to create more transparency throughout the whole process.
Board Observer
Aug 2021
Nest Wealth is Canadas largest independent digital wealth management platform, offering both direct-to-investor solutions through www.nestwealth.com and advanced business-to-business solutions through our Nest Wealth Pro product. The only subscription based investing service in Canada, we charge our clients a low, flat monthly fee and custom-build every portfolio. Account fees are as low as $5 per month and are capped at $150 per month, no matter how large an account grows. Our Nest Wealth Pro product offers wealth management firms a turnkey white label solution. Nest Wealth Pros digital portfolio management platform provides clients with simple onboarding, transparent reporting, and fully integrated back office and compliance functionality. Learn more about us at www.nestwealth.com.
Board observer
Jul 2021
d1g1t is the leading institutional-grade Enterprise Wealth Management Platform for Advisors, Multi-family Offices, RIAs, Broker Dealers, Custodians, and Bank Advisor Networks. The d1g1t platform was created to transform the patchwork of legacy systems with a single, integrated platform that provides advanced analytics and risk management tools across the entire wealth advisory life cycle through a seamless workflow that is highly intuitive and easy-to-use by the entire firm. Much more than a reporting platform, d1g1t equips client-facing financial advisors, back-office teams, and senior management with operational efficiencies, portfolio management, and powerful intelligence they need in real-time. The company is led by an experienced financial technology team who have developed leading enterprise risk and portfolio management systems for many of the worlds top investment banks, institutional and wealth managers, hedge funds, and regulators around the world.
Board Observer
Jun 2021
At Borrowell, we’re on a mission to help Canadians feel confident about their money. We empower individuals to take control of their financial futures by providing the tools and insights needed to understand, build, and use their credit effectively. Trusted by 1 in 10 Canadians, Borrowell provides over 3 million members with comprehensive credit monitoring and personalized insights. Our innovative services, including Credit Builder and rent reporting, help consumers build credit so they can unlock access to a wider range of financial products at more competitive rates. Additionally, we offer personalized financial product recommendations from Canada’s most trusted providers based on each member’s credit profile and financial goals. Our team is diverse, inclusive, and driven by a shared passion for making a meaningful difference in the lives of Canadians. We pride ourselves on fostering a culture of collaboration, humility, and innovation. If you’re looking to join a company that’s transforming the financial landscape and empowering Canadians to achieve their financial aspirations, we invite you to explore career opportunities at Borrowell. Together, we can help Canadians feel confident about money.
Investor/Advisor
Mar 2021
Pathway is a health tech company working on helping clinicians and patients access important medical information more effectively throughout the care journey. We leverage AI and big data to create a medical knowledge platform and software solutions that drive evidence-based medicine into clinical practice. Employees at Pathway come from a wide variety of backgrounds and work in over 12 countries. Were a small, but diverse and passionate team of clinicians, data scientists, researchers and entrepreneurs, dedicated to empowering a global healthcare community through intelligent and evidence-based resources.
Investor
Nov 2020
Employees with friends at work are 7x more likely to be engaged (we didn’t make that up - ask HBR). You may be thinking: “But TriplePlay, my company is hybrid. It’s impossible to make this happen remotely and event attendance is struggling”. Well, dear friend, let us prove you wrong. Here’s what we do for clients like Deloitte, KPMG, Telus, Certn, HiMama: - Create a season of game-based challenges (with events like Trivia Showdown, Master Chef Meetup, Name That Tune) - Configure event brackets to integrate teams, departments & geographies - Track points across the season’s events awarding prizes (and bragging rights, duh) - Provide you with attendee analytics like attendance, sentiment, feedback If you’re struggling with attendance at your company’s virtual social events, or are in need of support with this level of company connection, or just think we’re kind of cool and want to chat, reach out to hi@tripleplay.ai.
Board Observer
Jun 2020
Flinks enables businesses to connect to their customers’ financial accounts, enrich this data, and utilize it to deliver better digital products. Trusted by millions of consumers, and serving innovators in lending, FinTech, digital banking, asset management and insurance, Flinks is becoming a global leader in financial data open banking and analytics. To learn more, visit www.flinks.com
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2024
Board Observer
Jul 2024
nesto is on a mission to offer a positive, empowering and transparent property financing experience, simplified from start to finish. Powered by the most advanced technology, we screen the whole market in seconds to find the most affordable mortgage while our commission-free experts provide you with unbiased support along the process. Simply, welcome to the bright future of home buying.
2022
Board Observer
Jul 2022
Ownly helps agents, brokers, and builders sell homes faster and easier directly through their website.
Principal, Venture Capital, NAventures
Jun 2022
At National Bank, we believe in the potential of each individual, and that even the smallest gestures can make a big difference. When we help others accomplish their projects, we help empower them and the community at large. We try to make a difference through innovation, but above all, by putting people first. By taking the time to listen and letting our actions speak for themselves. By remaining bold and passionate. By developing lasting relationships as partners and allies. Together we can achieve great things and create a positive impact. Want to learn more about us? For advice on your personal finances, visit: nbc.ca/advice For advice on your business, visit: nbc.ca/business For career opportunities, visit: jobs.nbc.ca For all the latest news, visit: nbc.ca/news By clicking "Follow" above, you may receive communications from National Bank, either in your LinkedIn inbox or by other means via LinkedIn, about products and services that could interest you. Learn more at: www.nbc.ca/socialnetworks.
Board Observer
May 2022
At Walnut, we’ve cracked the nut on insurance and digitally flipped the traditional insurance model. Were embedding insurance into the products and services that you love.
early stageInsurance
Board Observer
May 2022
OneVest is a financial technology company on a mission to power the world’s wealth. It offers an end-to-end wealth management platform, from client onboarding, to portfolio management, to analytics and beyond. OneVest’s software was built to be modular, allowing financial institutions to fill gaps in their process depending on their needs.
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