Kenny Tran

Serial Entrepreneur, Co-Founder/Managing Director Benjamin Ventures Inc.

๐Ÿ“ Canada๐Ÿ”„ Updated September 2026๐Ÿ’ผ 3 investments๐Ÿ“… 8 years investing๐Ÿ—“ Last invested Apr 2020
VC๐ŸŒ Canada
3
Total investments
2
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0
Mid stage
0
Late stage
8y
Years active

Portfolio

3 investments ยท sorted by recency
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Angel Investor
Apr 2020
goPeer is a private credit marketplace that connects Canadian borrowers and investors through an innovative peer-to-peer lending platform, fostering financial empowerment across Canada. By facilitating fractional lending, goPeer makes borrowing more affordable and offers investors access to curated private consumer credit, enabling them to earn passive, high-yield income.
Investor
Aug 2019
Eighty8 is a startup studio that transforms ideas and concepts into awesome products and companies. We are a quasi-VC firm for pre/seed stage tech companies, working with founders as collaborative, hands-on partners. We help passionate entrepreneurs launch and scale their products.
Private Investor
Feb 2018
At Airzai, were building the worlds smartest diffuser. We are utilizing the most advanced technology (AI and machine learning) to deliver the most premium fragrance experience. The team consists of some of the most experienced, renowned team members such as Our Chief Designer, Fred Bould (Designer of Nest, GoPro, Roku more), Kashif Ahmed (Product exec at Ecobee), Angela Kot, President of American fragrance society and more. AIRZAI recently raised over $4M seed round of funding with DRAKE as one of the top investors who also joined the advisory board. We are currently looking for manufacturers, and also actively expanding our team, mostly in marketing, operations, and hardware, For any opportunities and inquiries, please feel free to send your inquiries to sarah@airzai.com Weve been working hard on inventing Airzai for almost 2 years and have secured strategic and valuable patents as well. Airzai is set to create a brand new category in 2019. Headquartered in Core Downtown Toronto, we recently closed our seed round of funding which is one of the largest in Canada at $4M. We have been able to accomplish a lot with a small but Awesome team and are looking forward to adding equally skilled new team members across the US & Canada to keep the momentum going and create history together.
Experience ยท 4 entries
All (4)
Investments (3)
Founder (1)
2020
Angel Investor
Apr 2020
goPeer is a private credit marketplace that connects Canadian borrowers and investors through an innovative peer-to-peer lending platform, fostering financial empowerment across Canada. By facilitating fractional lending, goPeer makes borrowing more affordable and offers investors access to curated private consumer credit, enabling them to earn passive, high-yield income.
2019
Co-Founder/Managing Director
Sep 2019
Real Estate Holdings and Lending
Investor
Aug 2019
Eighty8 is a startup studio that transforms ideas and concepts into awesome products and companies. We are a quasi-VC firm for pre/seed stage tech companies, working with founders as collaborative, hands-on partners. We help passionate entrepreneurs launch and scale their products.
2018
Private Investor
Feb 2018
At Airzai, were building the worlds smartest diffuser. We are utilizing the most advanced technology (AI and machine learning) to deliver the most premium fragrance experience. The team consists of some of the most experienced, renowned team members such as Our Chief Designer, Fred Bould (Designer of Nest, GoPro, Roku more), Kashif Ahmed (Product exec at Ecobee), Angela Kot, President of American fragrance society and more. AIRZAI recently raised over $4M seed round of funding with DRAKE as one of the top investors who also joined the advisory board. We are currently looking for manufacturers, and also actively expanding our team, mostly in marketing, operations, and hardware, For any opportunities and inquiries, please feel free to send your inquiries to sarah@airzai.com Weve been working hard on inventing Airzai for almost 2 years and have secured strategic and valuable patents as well. Airzai is set to create a brand new category in 2019. Headquartered in Core Downtown Toronto, we recently closed our seed round of funding which is one of the largest in Canada at $4M. We have been able to accomplish a lot with a small but Awesome team and are looking forward to adding equally skilled new team members across the US & Canada to keep the momentum going and create history together.
Investment activity
2018โ€“2020 ยท 3 investments
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