Sanjay Bakshani

Co-Founder of Cesium Telecom & Formentera Capital

📍 Canada🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2019
VC🌍 Canada
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2019
Say goodbye to paperwork forever with all-in-one HR and benefits built for Canadian small and medium businesses. Collage eliminates time and money spent on tedious HR paperwork by digitally automating onboarding, employee records management, tax forms, time off management, and group benefits enrolment. Customers have access to CHRP certified HR professionals and trustworthy and experienced benefits advisers to answer any workplace compliance and group health-related questions. The old workplace model is "how do we extract value from our employees"​. The future that we are building is built around "how do we take care of our people so they can take care of our customers"​. Learn more about our HR and benefits solutions at www.collage.co.
Investor
2018
Kiid is the new way to offer your employees work-family balance. With Kiid Concierge, your employees get on-demand access to world-class childcare professionals, tutors and caregivers, all in one simple and reliable platform. Business leaders partner with Kiid to attract talent, reduce absenteeism and build an amazing culture of work-family balance.
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2017
Planned is the first source-to-pay service for Travel & Events accelerated by technology. Founded in 2017, Planned combines human service with AI to deliver cost-effective, scalable, and custom sourcing and booking services. Trusted by major clients including Nike, Block, and Airbnb, Planned consistently generates 13% in savings or more on multi-million dollar budgets, enabling more in-person connections with greater ROI.
Investor
2016
Dialogue is a leading virtual care provider that empowers organizations to build healthier, happier, and more productive teams. Our high-touch health and well-being programs provide organizations and their members with tailored, measurable, and quality clinical care. Dialogues team of health professionals delivers exceptional experiences across the continuum of care, positively impacting millions worldwide. We foster thriving teams focused on health and well-being to improve culture, engagement, and productivity. Canada: • www.dialogue.co Programs: • Primary Care • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • Mental Health+ • Wellness -- International: • www.dialogue.co/en-gb/ Programs: • Wellness • iCBT
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2015
FightCamp is a connected at-home boxing gym. With FightCamp you get access to world-class boxing and kickboxing trainers, studio-quality equipment, and performance-tracking technology — all from the comfort of your home. We have an ever-growing library of boxing & kickboxing workouts designed to keep you engaged, focused, and in the zone. The key to a FightCamp workout lies in our Punch Tracking technology — we allow you to measure every strike, deliver real-time stats and fuel your competitive side.
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2013
LoginRadius is an API-driven identity platform designed to simplify the implementation of enterprise-grade features like Authentication, Authorization, Identity Verification, and User Management. Our products like Single Sign-On (SSO), Adaptive MFA, Passkeys, Fine-Grained Security Controls, Private Cloud, and Regulatory Compliances can be deployed in minutes (not months). Developers can integrate LoginRadius into their web and mobile apps with open-source SDKs, customizable login interfaces, and low-code Identity Orchestration capabilities, all designed for zero to minimal coding, along with real-time event-driven integrations via webhooks.
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2020
Managing Partner
2020
Formentera Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in world-class founders with big dreams of impacting the world in a positive way. Designed for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs, Formentera is led by founders who live, breathe & truly understand how to launch, operate & scale a business. Going far beyond capital, Formentera offers advisory services, network access, operational support and continuous guidance for game-changing companies. The philosophy at Formentera Capital is simple: venture capital is not about writing cheques and analyzing spreadsheets. It’s about advisory, mentorship, solving problems as a collective & building real relationships. Formentera invests in progressive, tech-enabled companies on a mission to make an impact on the world and in founders who lead with equal parts passion, integrity & disruption.
2019
Investor
2019
Say goodbye to paperwork forever with all-in-one HR and benefits built for Canadian small and medium businesses. Collage eliminates time and money spent on tedious HR paperwork by digitally automating onboarding, employee records management, tax forms, time off management, and group benefits enrolment. Customers have access to CHRP certified HR professionals and trustworthy and experienced benefits advisers to answer any workplace compliance and group health-related questions. The old workplace model is "how do we extract value from our employees"​. The future that we are building is built around "how do we take care of our people so they can take care of our customers"​. Learn more about our HR and benefits solutions at www.collage.co.
2018
Investor
2018
Kiid is the new way to offer your employees work-family balance. With Kiid Concierge, your employees get on-demand access to world-class childcare professionals, tutors and caregivers, all in one simple and reliable platform. Business leaders partner with Kiid to attract talent, reduce absenteeism and build an amazing culture of work-family balance.
2017
Investor
2017
Planned is the first source-to-pay service for Travel & Events accelerated by technology. Founded in 2017, Planned combines human service with AI to deliver cost-effective, scalable, and custom sourcing and booking services. Trusted by major clients including Nike, Block, and Airbnb, Planned consistently generates 13% in savings or more on multi-million dollar budgets, enabling more in-person connections with greater ROI.
2016
Investor
2016
Dialogue is a leading virtual care provider that empowers organizations to build healthier, happier, and more productive teams. Our high-touch health and well-being programs provide organizations and their members with tailored, measurable, and quality clinical care. Dialogues team of health professionals delivers exceptional experiences across the continuum of care, positively impacting millions worldwide. We foster thriving teams focused on health and well-being to improve culture, engagement, and productivity. Canada: • www.dialogue.co Programs: • Primary Care • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • Mental Health+ • Wellness -- International: • www.dialogue.co/en-gb/ Programs: • Wellness • iCBT
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