Kendall Gee-Wing, CFA

Plucky is a collective of angel investors that backs extremely ambitious founders at the Pre-Seed and Seed stage. In addition to an investment of up to $100K, we bring an engaged network of founders, product experts, and investors. We invest between $50K-$100K in the same amount of time it takes to talk to a single angel investor. We are a single line item on the cap table. Everything is simpler. For Founders Plucky is not a VC firm. There are no GPs or LPs. We invest to support the founders tackling the next generation of problems - that’s it. We are 100% aligned with founders. Plucky is not a syndicate. There are no passive investors. We have a variety of backgrounds and experiences such as founders, product experts, and investors. We want to be hands-on. For Angels Active and aspiring angel investors can maximise both their impact and learning with Plucky. This is a different type of classroom - there are no teachers with lesson plans, only open-minded students. You submit, evaluate, and invest in real deals. You put your own money in the companies you believe in. You magnify your impact by being able to support founders as part of a community. Startups benefit from a larger check and a diverse network. This makes the startup more likely to survive, improving its impact on your portfolio. Combined with deal flow and smaller individual checks, you can unlock a more robust risk/return profile. There are no management fees and no carry fees. We keep interests aligned through collaborative investing and membership curation.

BDev Ventures is a Venture Capital Fund. We invest in fast-growing post-revenue B2B software companies, from Seed to Series B, as a minority investor with checks up to 3M USD. We are focused on startups operating in the US and LATAM. In addition to capital, we provide our portfolio companies with a proprietary lead generation platform that our founders built and refined. It helped bootstrap BairesDev to unicorn status. Because of the value we can add in reaching new customers, we work with startups that are ready to utilize that platform to the fullest.

Canada Venture is a fully open community of venture capital investors with ties to the Canadian startup landscape.

Plucky is a collective of angel investors that backs extremely ambitious founders at the Pre-Seed and Seed stage. In addition to an investment of up to $100K, we bring an engaged network of founders, product experts, and investors. We invest between $50K-$100K in the same amount of time it takes to talk to a single angel investor. We are a single line item on the cap table. Everything is simpler. For Founders Plucky is not a VC firm. There are no GPs or LPs. We invest to support the founders tackling the next generation of problems - that’s it. We are 100% aligned with founders. Plucky is not a syndicate. There are no passive investors. We have a variety of backgrounds and experiences such as founders, product experts, and investors. We want to be hands-on. For Angels Active and aspiring angel investors can maximise both their impact and learning with Plucky. This is a different type of classroom - there are no teachers with lesson plans, only open-minded students. You submit, evaluate, and invest in real deals. You put your own money in the companies you believe in. You magnify your impact by being able to support founders as part of a community. Startups benefit from a larger check and a diverse network. This makes the startup more likely to survive, improving its impact on your portfolio. Combined with deal flow and smaller individual checks, you can unlock a more robust risk/return profile. There are no management fees and no carry fees. We keep interests aligned through collaborative investing and membership curation.

BDev Ventures is a Venture Capital Fund. We invest in fast-growing post-revenue B2B software companies, from Seed to Series B, as a minority investor with checks up to 3M USD. We are focused on startups operating in the US and LATAM. In addition to capital, we provide our portfolio companies with a proprietary lead generation platform that our founders built and refined. It helped bootstrap BairesDev to unicorn status. Because of the value we can add in reaching new customers, we work with startups that are ready to utilize that platform to the fullest.

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.

We are an entrepreneurial investment firm that invests in small and mid-sized businesses that we can help build and grow long term. The Lightheart legacy of entrepreneurship stretches back to the early 1900s when the six Lightheart brothers left their farm in rural Ontario to seek opportunity in the up-and-coming city of Vancouver. They would teach themselves trade-skills and develop dozens of houses and apartments, many of which are still standing after 100 years. Three generations later, we have cultivated a deep respect for the legacy, heritage and culture of every business, and when we invest we look not to disrupt, but to preserve and grow within that legacy.