Jeffery Potvin Early Stage Investor (Vc)

Ribitt rewards you for shopping local. Earn points on purchases you already make at neighbourhood shops and redeem them at any shop for anything you want. Ribitt is a rewards program, not just for one store, but for the entire network of independent shops: where shops participate as a collective, and consumers collect and redeem points across the Ribitt community. We're on a mission to bring the local shops together on Ribitt & give them the footprint that larger retailers enjoy. To learn more, visit our website at www.ribitt.io or sign up on the Ribitt app and start earning rewards on your next local purchase!

The Supporters Fund is designed and managed to allow OPN to help, support and grow with each startup. With our community of Angel & Accredited investors we are making a big push to invest in early stage businesses to help build a stronger path to growth and success for startups in Canada.

York Angel Investors is a non-profit group of accredited investors with a broad range of professional experience. Our individual and group focus is to create a return on investment for ourselves and the businesses we work with. Our portfolio companies benefit from our member expertise in information technology, telecommunications, internet; online applications, enterprise and SaaS software, retail and pharmaceutical. Our collaborative mentorship approach and strategic financing supports entrepreneurs through various stages of early growth. Our investments often represent the bridge between the self-financed or seed stage and the venture capital and/or private equity level of funding. York Angels work collaboratively with other angel groups throughout the country, as well as regional and national venture capital firms. Traditionally, angel investments range from $150,000 to $1.0 million.

The Golden Triangle Angel Network (GTAN) is a members-only, not-for-profit organization of accredited investors seeking investment opportunities in promising early-stage businesses. In addition to financial support, GTAN members provide dynamic early-stage companies with valuable mentorship and access to capital networks in order to facilitate learning, networking, and growth. GTAN helps accelerate companies into becoming market leaders in their industry by bringing together investment, experience and knowledge. The Golden Triangle area, comprising Kitchener-Waterloo, Cambridge, Guelph and Stratford, is one of the top five growth areas in Ontario. Having a strong industrial and agricultural base, Kitchener-Waterloo’s high-tech cluster and four major post-secondary institutions, this area has spawned many early stage companies and academic research, as well as nurtured stable employment and prosperity. GTAN operates under the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation’s Angel Network Program and is a part of the Equation Angels group.

Durhams Neighbourhood Association of Angel Investors is a group of individual investors whose aim is to build economic growth and sustainability within the Durham Region. As successful individuals, the members have come together to provide private equity investment to early-stage technology and innovative businesses.

We are North America’s first social water brand, dedicated to the pursuit of positive experience and providing the highest quality water in the world, with a reduced environmental footprint. Founded by serial entrepreneur, Nicholas Reichenbach, Flow offers consumers the healthful benefits of drinking naturally alkaline spring water from a local and sustainable source. “We imagined a bottled water brand that was naturally healthful. Not filtered or altered tap water owned by a major corporation. We looked for an alternative to the plastic bottle, a package with the lowest possible carbon footprint. We stopped looking and we started creating.” -Founder & CEO Nicholas Reichenbach Our water has been nurtured for thousands of years in a limestone aquifer located on a family-owned property in Mildmay, Ontario, Canada. Flow’s water naturally collects essential minerals, electrolytes, and an alkaline pH. We have partnered with Tetra-Pak to create the industry’s lowest-carbon footprint packaging that is also PET and BPA free. Our goal, together with Tetra-Pak, is to make a pack that is completely renewable. More than two thirds of Flow’s package is made of paperboard that comes from trees harvested in responsibly managed forests and/or controlled sources. None of the resources used in our cartons come from old growth trees or rainforests. It uses just enough material to keep the package stable. Our packets are 3-5% package and 95-7% content - thinner than an eggshell. Flow Direct, our subscription service delivers water to your home or office for free VIA our eco-friendly electric SUV. Say hello to H2O 2.0!

Ribitt rewards you for shopping local. Earn points on purchases you already make at neighbourhood shops and redeem them at any shop for anything you want. Ribitt is a rewards program, not just for one store, but for the entire network of independent shops: where shops participate as a collective, and consumers collect and redeem points across the Ribitt community. We're on a mission to bring the local shops together on Ribitt & give them the footprint that larger retailers enjoy. To learn more, visit our website at www.ribitt.io or sign up on the Ribitt app and start earning rewards on your next local purchase!

The Supporters Fund is designed and managed to allow OPN to help, support and grow with each startup. With our community of Angel & Accredited investors we are making a big push to invest in early stage businesses to help build a stronger path to growth and success for startups in Canada.

York Angel Investors is a non-profit group of accredited investors with a broad range of professional experience. Our individual and group focus is to create a return on investment for ourselves and the businesses we work with. Our portfolio companies benefit from our member expertise in information technology, telecommunications, internet; online applications, enterprise and SaaS software, retail and pharmaceutical. Our collaborative mentorship approach and strategic financing supports entrepreneurs through various stages of early growth. Our investments often represent the bridge between the self-financed or seed stage and the venture capital and/or private equity level of funding. York Angels work collaboratively with other angel groups throughout the country, as well as regional and national venture capital firms. Traditionally, angel investments range from $150,000 to $1.0 million.

The Golden Triangle Angel Network (GTAN) is a members-only, not-for-profit organization of accredited investors seeking investment opportunities in promising early-stage businesses. In addition to financial support, GTAN members provide dynamic early-stage companies with valuable mentorship and access to capital networks in order to facilitate learning, networking, and growth. GTAN helps accelerate companies into becoming market leaders in their industry by bringing together investment, experience and knowledge. The Golden Triangle area, comprising Kitchener-Waterloo, Cambridge, Guelph and Stratford, is one of the top five growth areas in Ontario. Having a strong industrial and agricultural base, Kitchener-Waterloo’s high-tech cluster and four major post-secondary institutions, this area has spawned many early stage companies and academic research, as well as nurtured stable employment and prosperity. GTAN operates under the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation’s Angel Network Program and is a part of the Equation Angels group.

Durhams Neighbourhood Association of Angel Investors is a group of individual investors whose aim is to build economic growth and sustainability within the Durham Region. As successful individuals, the members have come together to provide private equity investment to early-stage technology and innovative businesses.