Jonathan Kennedy

Founder, app store research - the Shopify brand conversation marketplace.

📍 Canada🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2021
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Angel Investor
Dec 2021
We do a swift mobile-first frontend with AI recommendations for slow fashion brands in 7 days and give a 15% conversion rate growth guarantee. Book a demo call to learn more https://jiffsy.co/watch-demo
Angel Investor
Oct 2021
Vela empowers ecommerce sellers to optimize actions, improve efficiency, and accelerate revenue. This is achieved by centrally integrating multiple ecommerce channels and then leveraging the network’s collective data to inform and increasingly automate all key decisions. On average, Vela users increase revenue by over 25% within their first month on the platform and continue to see this impact grow over time. To date, with just our first two channel integrations (i.e. Etsy and Shopify), weve attracted over 52K sellers, actively managing nearly 680M unique products, and representing $1.22B GMV over the past year alone. Most importantly, this has been achieved entirely through word-of-mouth and without a dollar spent on direct acquisition.
Angel Investor
Jul 2021
The future of recommendations is already here, its just unevenly distributed. Suggestr brings advanced ML/AI algorithms which Amazon, Facebook, and TikTok use to small and medium business owners. Join us on this journey to revolutionize the online shopping experience.
Angel Investor
May 2021
End-to-end video infrastructure for brands & retailers, designed for scale and peak commerce performance. Cover your online store, mobile apps and omnichannel video experiences to maximize video potential. Unlike traditional video platforms, Videowise offers a commerce-centric video infrastructure that protects page speed, saves merchant time with automation, and offers more insights with advanced video analytics. Brands and retailers can engage shoppers through interactive product discovery and better communicate their products’ value proposition, inevitably driving increased sales growth. UNMATCHED VERSATILITY AND CUSTOMIZATION Pre-built components to add video to your site however you want. UNRIVALED SITE SPEED PERFORMANCE Confidently embed low-script video that protects your site speed. MANAGE & PUBLISH VIDEO AT SCALE Automations and bulk actions to publish videos on thousands of pages. INTERACTIVE, SHOPPABLE VIDEO EXPERIENCES Go beyond just watching and better engage & convert shoppers. COMMERCE-CENTRIC VIDEO ANALYTICS Track, analyze and improve every aspect of your video performance. OMNICHANNEL VIDEO DISTRIBUTION Deliver an engaging video experience on all your marketing channels.
Angel Investor
May 2021
Rush helps Shopify brands increase repeat sales & retention with better order tracking, delivery notifications, and estimated delivery dates. A pet brand using Rush recently implemented smart-triggered shipping notifications as part of their email flows and generated an extra $27,426 in the just 30 days. Automate shipment tracking to stay in control of the delivery journey your customers experience. - Reduce returns - Eliminate bad product reviews - Solve customer anxiety around package delivery Build branded order tracking pages that customers visit 3+ times per order and see relevant upsells that generate repeat sales for your brand. Automate SMS & email delivery notifications with 15+ additional shipment events on top of Shopifys default 3. Get more revenue-driving opportunities and promote your brand with more touch-points. Increase product page conversion rates with estimated delivery dates that make customers more likely to buy from your brand instead of competitors that dont display when the product will arrive. Increase repeat sales and customer loyalty with better order tracking for Shopify. Get started in minutes or get expert onboarding & assisted migration.
Angel Investor
Feb 2021
Cogsy is an operations platform that makes it easy for DTC brands to always have the inventory they need to grow at the pace they desire. Cogsy’s platform is always on, monitoring your inventory levels and sales at all times. It is constantly calculating your forecasted sales and how much product you’ll need to have in stock at any given moment, creating recommended purchase orders for you in the background. And the platform makes sure you place your orders at the right time by sending you replenish alerts via email and within the app. Cogsy’s backorder functionality was made with your operational teams and customers in mind—saving your team’s precious time and protecting your customer’s expectations at the same time. On the planning side, our platform makes it easy to map out different growth scenarios and to adjust your inventory plan accordingly. It even bakes your marketing campaigns right into your demand planning, so you make sure you’ll have enough stock during your sales and promotions. In a perfect world, brands would have clarity into all of their data in one place, a single source of truth from which to make the smartest decisions possible. Brands could plan out their inventory needs with confidence and ease. Marketing campaigns and expected growth would be factored right into inventory needs, so planning upcoming quarters is a breeze. No more fragmentation of data and spending weeks updating spreadsheets and models. Cogsy is building toward that perfect world.
Angel Investor
Nov 2020
Grow your Shopify store with delightful customer service and WhatsApp marketing. Manage all your customer conversations from all channels on a single screen.
Experience · 11 entries
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2023
Founder
Apr 2023
App Store Research is a B2B eCommerce research recruiting platform. We connect high quality research participants with eCommerce Saas product and service teams to help them gain real user insights and build better products.
2021
Angel Investor
Dec 2021
We do a swift mobile-first frontend with AI recommendations for slow fashion brands in 7 days and give a 15% conversion rate growth guarantee. Book a demo call to learn more https://jiffsy.co/watch-demo
Angel Investor
Oct 2021
Vela empowers ecommerce sellers to optimize actions, improve efficiency, and accelerate revenue. This is achieved by centrally integrating multiple ecommerce channels and then leveraging the network’s collective data to inform and increasingly automate all key decisions. On average, Vela users increase revenue by over 25% within their first month on the platform and continue to see this impact grow over time. To date, with just our first two channel integrations (i.e. Etsy and Shopify), weve attracted over 52K sellers, actively managing nearly 680M unique products, and representing $1.22B GMV over the past year alone. Most importantly, this has been achieved entirely through word-of-mouth and without a dollar spent on direct acquisition.
Angel Investor
Jul 2021
The future of recommendations is already here, its just unevenly distributed. Suggestr brings advanced ML/AI algorithms which Amazon, Facebook, and TikTok use to small and medium business owners. Join us on this journey to revolutionize the online shopping experience.
Angel Investor
May 2021
End-to-end video infrastructure for brands & retailers, designed for scale and peak commerce performance. Cover your online store, mobile apps and omnichannel video experiences to maximize video potential. Unlike traditional video platforms, Videowise offers a commerce-centric video infrastructure that protects page speed, saves merchant time with automation, and offers more insights with advanced video analytics. Brands and retailers can engage shoppers through interactive product discovery and better communicate their products’ value proposition, inevitably driving increased sales growth. UNMATCHED VERSATILITY AND CUSTOMIZATION Pre-built components to add video to your site however you want. UNRIVALED SITE SPEED PERFORMANCE Confidently embed low-script video that protects your site speed. MANAGE & PUBLISH VIDEO AT SCALE Automations and bulk actions to publish videos on thousands of pages. INTERACTIVE, SHOPPABLE VIDEO EXPERIENCES Go beyond just watching and better engage & convert shoppers. COMMERCE-CENTRIC VIDEO ANALYTICS Track, analyze and improve every aspect of your video performance. OMNICHANNEL VIDEO DISTRIBUTION Deliver an engaging video experience on all your marketing channels.
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