Bernie Li

General Partner at Antler Canada. Investing in Canadian founders at the inception stage.

📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2019𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 Canada
8
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12y
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Portfolio

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Investor and Advisor
2019
Rally Assets is an impact investment management and advisory firm. The firm helps investors generate positive social and environmental impact alongside a financial return. Rally creates specialized solutions for corporate and institutional investors, foundations, family offices and individual accredited investors. Since its start in 2010 as Purpose Capital, it has been a trusted leader in the sector. Rally is a Portfolio Manager and Exempt Market Dealer registered in Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec with the respective provincial securities commissions. Rally is a certified B Corporation. Certified B Corporations meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose.
Board Member and Investor
Nov 2018
Most remote meetings suck! #ZoomFatigue and #PowerPointHell are real problems we all face everyday. We are stuck in an endless bevy of meetings where we are distracted, often feel disconnected, and find it difficult to pay attention. The most popular video conference tools are fundamentally flawed in the way that they force the presenter to disappear and allow the static slide deck to completely take over; thereby eliminating eye contact and disconnecting the viewer(s) from the presenter and each other. Existing remote screen sharing tools do not, as a rule, allow the presenter to create an interactive and memorable remote meeting that actually engages the audience. Vizetto’s Reactiv SUITE helps organizations, and their workforce, transform nearly any remote/hybrid meeting into a engaging, interactive, and immersive session that is memorable. The tool is designed around key principles of neuroscience, such as reinforcement and associative learning, that are proven to help presenters engage and hold the audiences’ attention for an extended period. Presenters stand out, differentiate themselves and their offerings and can easily create an immersive experience where their image, content and brand look like a professional broadcast. Audiences are more focused, attentive and feel like they are as engaged as if the presenter was in the same room, standing in front of them. Reactiv SUITE removes the 'remote' from any meeting and brings that in-person feel to any meeting, training session or lecture. It is the future of how we will communicate.
Investor
2017
REBBL was lovingly crafted to inspire the world to drink differently, with clean ingredients and real functionality, and to support a future without exploitation of at-risk people and the planet – a rebellious approach to creating delicious, authentic nourishment.
Early Investor
2017
Investments that are good for your portfolio, backed by projects that are good for the planet. CoPower is Canada’s first sustainable investment platform and a proud subsidiary of Vancity Community Investment Bank. We were founded in 2013 on the idea that if ordinary people like us were empowered to invest their savings in clean energy, together we could fund climate-friendly infrastructure projects on a massive scale and make a profit while doing so. By investing in CoPower Green Bonds you can support small-to-midsize clean energy projects like solar rooftops, geothermal heating and cooling projects and energy efficiency retrofits across Canada. These projects reduce carbon pollution while generating steady revenues from the sale of clean energy or energy savings. With CoPower, you don’t need to be a millionaire, a clean energy expert, or put all your money behind one project. Instead, our Green Bonds allow you to invest in a diversified portfolio of project loans at an accessible minimum investment, all through our easy-to-use online platform. Grow your portfolio. Save the planet. Win-win.
Investor and Advisor
2017
Bright Breaks is a technology-enabled workplace well-being platform designed to address the challenges of hybrid and remote work. With a mission to inspire and prioritize employee well-being, Bright Breaks offers a comprehensive suite of wellness tools, including live and on-demand content, challenge features, automatic scheduling of breaks, and metric reporting to HR leaders.
Advisor and Investor
Apr 2015
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!
Investor
2014
CareGuide matches families with high-quality care providers through a portfolio of websites, including Sitter.com, ElderCare.com, PetSitter.com, Housekeeper.com, CleaningLady.com, and HouseSitter.com. The private company is located in Toronto, Canada.
Experience · 16 entries
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Investments (8)
Founder (1)
Board (1)
2021
Partner
2021
Antler is one of the most active early-stage investors globally. The firm leads in ‘Day Zero’ investing, an approach to venture capital focused on partnering with founders pre-launch. Antler systematically removes capital and network constraints for early-stage technology entrepreneurs by providing co-founder matching, deep business model validation, initial capital, expansion support, and follow-on funding. The firm is present in 27 cities across most leading technology ecosystems globally and has made over 1,300 investments into early-stage startups. Antler has been repeatedly recognized by Pitchbook as the world’s most active angel and seed-stage investor.
2019
Investor and Advisor
2019
Rally Assets is an impact investment management and advisory firm. The firm helps investors generate positive social and environmental impact alongside a financial return. Rally creates specialized solutions for corporate and institutional investors, foundations, family offices and individual accredited investors. Since its start in 2010 as Purpose Capital, it has been a trusted leader in the sector. Rally is a Portfolio Manager and Exempt Market Dealer registered in Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec with the respective provincial securities commissions. Rally is a certified B Corporation. Certified B Corporations meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose.
Venture Partner
2019
Revel Partners is an early-stage (Seed to Series A) venture capital fund focused on financing disruptive innovation in enterprise and B2B software. Based in New York with offices in Berlin, our mission is to champion the next generation of enterprise visionaries. Having founded and sold businesses in the sector, Revel capitalizes on its entrepreneurial heritage, global network, and business acumen to help grow our portfolio companies to unparalleled differentiation and scale. Twitter: @RevelPartners
2018
Board Member and Investor
Nov 2018
Most remote meetings suck! #ZoomFatigue and #PowerPointHell are real problems we all face everyday. We are stuck in an endless bevy of meetings where we are distracted, often feel disconnected, and find it difficult to pay attention. The most popular video conference tools are fundamentally flawed in the way that they force the presenter to disappear and allow the static slide deck to completely take over; thereby eliminating eye contact and disconnecting the viewer(s) from the presenter and each other. Existing remote screen sharing tools do not, as a rule, allow the presenter to create an interactive and memorable remote meeting that actually engages the audience. Vizetto’s Reactiv SUITE helps organizations, and their workforce, transform nearly any remote/hybrid meeting into a engaging, interactive, and immersive session that is memorable. The tool is designed around key principles of neuroscience, such as reinforcement and associative learning, that are proven to help presenters engage and hold the audiences’ attention for an extended period. Presenters stand out, differentiate themselves and their offerings and can easily create an immersive experience where their image, content and brand look like a professional broadcast. Audiences are more focused, attentive and feel like they are as engaged as if the presenter was in the same room, standing in front of them. Reactiv SUITE removes the 'remote' from any meeting and brings that in-person feel to any meeting, training session or lecture. It is the future of how we will communicate.
2017
Investor
2017
REBBL was lovingly crafted to inspire the world to drink differently, with clean ingredients and real functionality, and to support a future without exploitation of at-risk people and the planet – a rebellious approach to creating delicious, authentic nourishment.
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