Jim Orlando

Managing Partner, Wittington Ventures

📍 Canada🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2022
VC🌍 Canada
11
Total investments
4
Early stage
2
Mid stage
4
Late stage
13y
Years active

Portfolio

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Investor
Jun 2022
Using verified identity to create a future with more trust.
Investor
Jun 2022
Courtyard AI helps your business get discovered, accurately represented, and engaged with inside AI assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. Courtyard ensures AI can find you, answer customer questions, automate actions like quotes or reservations, and get new business - all from one platform.
Investor
Jul 2021
Arcaea (Ar-kay-uh). Were on a mission to build a new foundation for the beauty industry where biology as the creative tool for self-expression. Were growing new ingredients and product experiences for beauty through technology that includes DNA sequencing, biological engineering, fermentation and more. By culturing industry-leading, safe, and sustainable ingredients, we intend to create a new supply chain for the industry that does not rely on petrochemicals or on harvesting and depleting natural resources while making products that can deliver new functionality and performance across skincare, bodycare, haircare, and aesthetics. Arcaea was incubated on the Ginkgo Bioworks platform under the working title Kalo.
Investor
Jun 2021
Motif FoodWorks is creating the next generation of delicious food. We are a food technology company developing breakthrough ingredients that unleash the promise of plant-based foods and transform the eating experience – from first bite to lasting impact. With food as our passion and innovation coded into our DNA, we are driven by the science of more. More taste. More texture. More choices for consumers. That is why our work has gone beyond the lab. We have taken it all the way to the plate with products grown from the universal experience of what great food should be: tantalizing, satiating, and nourishing. Our ecosystem of ingredients and finished products are designed for people of all habits and beliefs and with the health of our planet always in mind. Because at Motif, we believe the food of the future should set you free. Find out more at madewithmotif.com.
Investor
Jun 2020
The leading digital experience platform helping you to meet your growing demand for engaging, personalized content at scale. We enable dynamic personalization, automated content delivery, and real-time experimentation, powering next-generation digital experiences across the globe. 🟡 Create and manage content from anywhere to go everywhere with Contentful Platform: https://ctfl.io/4aDVheL 🔵 Let anyone assemble on-brand experiences at scale with Contentful Studio: https://ctfl.io/3UV8N7U 🔴 Easily compose your own best-in-class platform with Contentful Ecosystem: https://ctfl.io/4e37KLN Join our Developer Community on Discord: https://www.contentful.com/discord/ Work for our distributed team around the world: https://ctfl.io/3sznz6y
Investor
Feb 2020
Gatik is in the business of autonomous freight. We run driverless delivery networks across North America for some of the world’s largest retailers and consumer brands.
Investor
Feb 2020
Foxtrot is redefining convenience for the modern consumer, marrying the best of neighborhood retail and e-commerce technology to create a community of discovery. Our storefronts offer the most-loved aspects of neighborhood cafés, and you can turn to the Foxtrot App or website for 30-minute delivery and 5-minute pick up of a city’s best goods – from local beers and fine wines to chef-prepared meals and everyday essentials. We also offer the best of our favorite foods, goods and curated gifts available for nationwide shipping via Foxtrot Anywhere. We’re building a first-of-its-kind omnichannel brand that seamlessly marries e-commerce delivery, proprietary inventory technology, and the feel-good community of neighborhood stores. Since launching our native app in 2013, we now operate a robust e-commerce platform and 20 (and counting!) retail stores across Chicago, DC, VA and Dallas with plans to continue expansion nationwide. We’re on a mission to connect people to better convenience through our love for food & culture, so that everyone can feel good about what they buy everyday.
late stageRetail
Investor, Board Member
Nov 2015
Award-winning operations management software for home service businesses. Jobber’s 200K+ home service pros have served over 27 million households in more than 60 countries, and invoiced for over $40 billion in services. We continually rank as one of Canada’s fastest-growing and most innovative companies by The Globe and Mail, Fast Company, and Deloitte.
Investor, Board Member
Mar 2014
Wattpad. Where Stories Live. Wattpad’s vision is to entertain and connect the world through stories. A leading social storytelling platform and home to a community of more than 94 million people who spend over 23 billion minutes a month engaged in original stories, Wattpad has democratized storytelling for a new generation of diverse Gen Z writers and their fans. Alongside Wattpad WEBTOON Studios, the company’s TV, film, and publishing counterparts, Wattpad combines art and science to unearth incredible stories and cultivate the fandoms driving the future of entertainment. The company is proudly based in Toronto, Canada. Learn more at: company.wattpad.com
Investor, Board Observer
Dec 2013
Shopify is a leading global commerce company, providing trusted tools to start, grow, market, and manage a retail business of any size. Shopify makes commerce better for everyone with a platform and services that are engineered for reliability, while delivering a better shopping experience for consumers everywhere. Shopify powers millions of businesses in more than 175 countries and is trusted by brands such as Allbirds, Gymshark, PepsiCo, Staples, and many more. Find all our jobs here: www.shopify.com/careers
Investor, Board Member
Sep 2013
The world-class team of scientist and engineers at Ranovus is comprised of professionals with a unique combination of decades of expertise in product development of optoelectronics components and transceiver subsystems for the information technology industry. Ranovus​ disruptive innovation in Quantum Dot Multi-Wavelength Laser combined with advanced digital and photonics integrated circuit technologies is setting a new industry benchmark for the next generation of optical interconnect solutions. Our technology delivers significant reduction in power dissipation, size and cost of interconnects, and enables a much higher degree of distortion tolerance compared to traditional solutions, thereby enabling a "freeway"​ architecture to reduce network latency.
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2022
Investor
Jun 2022
Using verified identity to create a future with more trust.
Investor
Jun 2022
Courtyard AI helps your business get discovered, accurately represented, and engaged with inside AI assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. Courtyard ensures AI can find you, answer customer questions, automate actions like quotes or reservations, and get new business - all from one platform.
2021
Investor
Jul 2021
Arcaea (Ar-kay-uh). Were on a mission to build a new foundation for the beauty industry where biology as the creative tool for self-expression. Were growing new ingredients and product experiences for beauty through technology that includes DNA sequencing, biological engineering, fermentation and more. By culturing industry-leading, safe, and sustainable ingredients, we intend to create a new supply chain for the industry that does not rely on petrochemicals or on harvesting and depleting natural resources while making products that can deliver new functionality and performance across skincare, bodycare, haircare, and aesthetics. Arcaea was incubated on the Ginkgo Bioworks platform under the working title Kalo.
Investor
Jun 2021
Motif FoodWorks is creating the next generation of delicious food. We are a food technology company developing breakthrough ingredients that unleash the promise of plant-based foods and transform the eating experience – from first bite to lasting impact. With food as our passion and innovation coded into our DNA, we are driven by the science of more. More taste. More texture. More choices for consumers. That is why our work has gone beyond the lab. We have taken it all the way to the plate with products grown from the universal experience of what great food should be: tantalizing, satiating, and nourishing. Our ecosystem of ingredients and finished products are designed for people of all habits and beliefs and with the health of our planet always in mind. Because at Motif, we believe the food of the future should set you free. Find out more at madewithmotif.com.
2020
Investor
Jun 2020
The leading digital experience platform helping you to meet your growing demand for engaging, personalized content at scale. We enable dynamic personalization, automated content delivery, and real-time experimentation, powering next-generation digital experiences across the globe. 🟡 Create and manage content from anywhere to go everywhere with Contentful Platform: https://ctfl.io/4aDVheL 🔵 Let anyone assemble on-brand experiences at scale with Contentful Studio: https://ctfl.io/3UV8N7U 🔴 Easily compose your own best-in-class platform with Contentful Ecosystem: https://ctfl.io/4e37KLN Join our Developer Community on Discord: https://www.contentful.com/discord/ Work for our distributed team around the world: https://ctfl.io/3sznz6y
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