Mathieu Duffar

Venture Capital Growth Investor.

📍 Montreal, Quebec, Canada🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 18 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
VC🌍 Canada
11
Total investments
2
Early stage
0
Mid stage
4
Late stage
18y
Years active

Portfolio

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Board Member
2024
Our vision is to expand humanity’s potential through robotics and automation. We design and build autonomous cleaning technology that empowers organizations and their workers to become more productive and efficient versions of themselves. Our robots — Neo, Neo 2W, and Kas — help raise and maintain cleanliness standards in commercial and industrial facilities without higher costs or tougher demands on teams. Our newest innovation, Kas, opens new possibilities for busy commercial environments thanks to improved performance in tight spaces, a focus on safety, and a futuristic design that enhances its surroundings. Retail, healthcare, education, transportation, and more, Kas continues Avidbots’ record of creating tailor-made solutions for its customers, so organizations can reach their full potential.
Board Observer
2024
The first-ever Educational Support System (ESS) offering personalized academic support: 💬24/7 tutoring 📝Writing feedback 📚Reading, math & vocabulary practice 🏫College & career readiness
Investor
2024
KOHO is one seamless platform for your money and life. Founded in 2014, we are a forward-thinking fintech company dedicated to financially empowering a generation of Canadians. With a Mastercard and innovative tools, we provide our users with the ability to earn, spend, borrow, build credit, and budget—all in one convenient app. Driven by a genuine desire to help people make financial progress, KOHO has touched the lives of over 1.7 million users. Our mission is to make finance accessible, engaging, and user-friendly, ensuring that everyone has the resources they need to take control of their financial future. We’re proud to offer a product that our users love, and we remain committed to innovating and evolving to meet their needs. Join us on this journey as we reshape personal finance in Canada.
Investor
2024
Certn isn’t a background check provider with a tech department, it’s a tech-first leader innovating every part of the background screening process. Certn is changing background screening globally by offering the easiest-to-use platform, checks in 200+ countries and territories, free 24/7 customer support, and fast and compliant results. Trusted by 10,000+ clients, Certn helps businesses manage risk, stay compliant, and hire faster—all while delivering candidate experiences that help them stand out.
Board Member
Jan 2019
Le Groupe Perreault-Navilon sports et divertissement est une équipe dédiée regroupant les meilleurs professionnels de l'industrie pour la conception et la réalisation des infrastructures de sports et de divertissement. Notre combinaison unique d'expérience, de champs d'expertise et de ressources spécialisées nous permet d'aider nos clients à prendre des décisions éclairées et de mener à bien les plus ambitieux projets. Du conseil stratégique, à l'analyse de faisabilité, en passant par la planification et la gestion de projet, ainsi que la gestion des opérations et de l'infrastructure elle-même, nous vous accompagnons à chacune des étapes de réalisation. Fort de l'expérience acquise avec le Complexe JC Perreault et le Complexe aquatique Desjardins, GPN met son savoir-faire au service des promoteurs privés, des fédérations et équipes sportives, des villes et des gouvernements. Notre mission est d'accompagner nos clients dans la réalisation de projets d'infrastructures innovants, qui proposent des modèles d'affaires viables et permettent de livrer une expérience client extraordinaire.
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Private Investor
Jan 2008
Our mission: to connect all Canadians to their world, no matter where they are in this vast country of ours. To achieve that, we’re developing revolutionary new technologies to enable seamless direct-to-mobile satellite communications for everyday devices and the Internet of Things. More than ever, thanks to our open network technology, we’re ready to work hand in hand with leading mobile network operators and committed partners to extend ground networks and bring connectivity to life with our geostationary satellite, ground network infrastructure and spectrum licences, providing ubiquitous, reliable coverage to everyone, everywhere.
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2025
Board Observer
2025
Power quality problems are on the rise as renewable energy, EV charging stations, and VFDs join the grid. This has made power quality a high priority for electrical engineers, power systems and businesses worldwide. Many have turned to Powerside for our expert guidance, power analyzers, harmonic filters and broad portfolio of innovative tools. For over 75 years, we’ve pioneered sustainable and innovative, advanced power quality solutions. Leveraging grid edge technology and an elite team of power quality experts, Powerside serves more than 27,000 clients across 50 countries. As the rapid adoption of renewable energy, and electric vehicles continues, Powerside remains at the forefront of efforts to provide the world with reliable, high-quality power. Our expertise extends across diverse sectors — including energy producers, utilities, semiconductor manufacturers, healthcare facilities, and more. Whatever your business, we’re confident we can help you actively identify and correct concealed power issues like harmonics to optimize your energy efficiency.
Investor
2025
StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels. Our state-of-the-art platform is where some of the most progressive work in machine learning meets cutting-edge user experience. StackAdapt is designed around the three core pillars of programmatic—planning, executing and analyzing. StackAdapt is ranked as the number 1 DSP on G2. For six consecutive years with over hundreds of reviews, StackAdapt has been recognized as a high performer and the highest-ranking DSP in customer satisfaction by G2. StackAdapt was also recognized as an Enterprise Fast 15 winner as part of the Technology Fast 50™ program in 2024 and is one of Ad Age’s Best Places to Work in 2024. Learn more about StackAdapt here: www.stackadapt.com. And if youre looking for a change, wed love to have you on our team—check out our open roles by visiting: www.stackadapt.com/careers. StackAdapt is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. We have teams and client support across North America, EMEA, APAC, and LATAM.
2024
Board Member
2024
Our vision is to expand humanity’s potential through robotics and automation. We design and build autonomous cleaning technology that empowers organizations and their workers to become more productive and efficient versions of themselves. Our robots — Neo, Neo 2W, and Kas — help raise and maintain cleanliness standards in commercial and industrial facilities without higher costs or tougher demands on teams. Our newest innovation, Kas, opens new possibilities for busy commercial environments thanks to improved performance in tight spaces, a focus on safety, and a futuristic design that enhances its surroundings. Retail, healthcare, education, transportation, and more, Kas continues Avidbots’ record of creating tailor-made solutions for its customers, so organizations can reach their full potential.
Partner - Growth Venture Co-Investment Fund
2024
We are BDC, the bank for Canadian entrepreneurs. Our mission is to help create and develop strong Canadian businesses through financing, consulting services and securitization, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises. Through our subsidiary—BDC Capital, we also offer a full spectrum of specialized financing, including venture capital, equity as well as growth and business transition capital. BDC, Canada’s first B Corp bank. B Corps are certified Beneficial companies. Their purpose is to create value for society as well as money. They meet high standards of transparency and accountability, and create positive social and environmental benefit. Learn more at www.bcorporation.net. Social Media Community Guidelines: https://www.bdc.ca/EN/about/social_media/Pages/social-media-guidelines.aspx
Board Observer
2024
The first-ever Educational Support System (ESS) offering personalized academic support: 💬24/7 tutoring 📝Writing feedback 📚Reading, math & vocabulary practice 🏫College & career readiness
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