Scott Macdonald

Co-founder @ McRock Capital · Industrial AI Investor · Also: Fashion Friday

📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2021𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board Member
Oct 2021
LandingAI provides a cutting-edge software platform that enables computer vision easy for a wide range of applications across all industries.
Board Member
Jun 2021
At Triax, we provide innovative technology solutions to optimize labor and resources so that industrial sites are safer and more productive. We provide hard-to-capture data and deliver it in actionable insights, to empower better business decisions. To achieve this, Triax delivers a fully connected Internet of Things (IoT) platform through a proprietary communication hub designed for Construction, Oil & Gas, Energy, Heavy Industrial and other challenging IT environments. Our flagship Spot-r system elevates worksite visibility, safety, security and risk, connecting workers, equipment and operations through a scalable, minimal infrastructure network, wearable and sensor devices, and a cloud-based dashboard. By providing real-time, data-driven visibility into site access, worker and equipment location, manpower, safety incidents, and evacuation and muster procedures, Spot-r enables actionable insights, helping firms streamline processes and work safer and smarter. In May 2021, Triax launched Spot-r Radius, a light-weight solution that can be self-installed without the need for an IT team or existing infrastructure, yet provides cutting-edge capabilities. Spot-r Radius enhances worker safety with proactive alerting, automates data collection in the field, and helps optimize worksite efficiency with daily analytics reporting through its beacon-based network. Headquartered in Norwalk, CT with a Product Development Suite in East Hartford, CT, our solutions are designed, engineered, and serviced in-house. We pride ourselves on exceptional customer service, which is why we work hard every day to connect operations leaders and teams with the insights they need to operate safer and smarter.
Board Observer
Apr 2021
Poka transforms manufacturing operations by empowering workers with real-time access to knowledge, digital tools and expert support. Our AI-driven platform integrates training, communication and troubleshooting to foster continuous improvement and operational excellence. Our mission is to bridge the skills gap, reduce downtime, and drive safety, performance and quality to new heights. Poka’s powerful analytics engine makes it easy to identify issues in production, leading to quick and focussed resolutions. In 2023, Poka was acquired by IFS, an enterprise software leader in Enterprise Asset Management, Field Service Management and ERP. Together, we help manufacturing companies optimize their people, assets and processes. Join us in shaping the future of work in manufacturing.
Board Member
May 2020
Thomson Reuters Document Intelligence is an AI-powered contract analytics platform that empowers institutions and legal teams to identify critical information in seconds to strategically advise their business. Document Intelligence uses AI trained by Practical Law attorney editors to read, organize, and manage business-critical document workflows and processes. With Document Intelligence, legal teams can perform cost-effective, efficient, & accurate due diligence reviews, extract insights, and pinpoint risk across thousands of documents in minutes - and it works from day one. Thomson Reuters Document Intelligence is the next generation of contract review empowering professionals and institutions to solve complex problems and make decisions with confidence. Our cloud-based AI platform reads, interprets, and extracts critical provisions and data elements at the intent, or thought level, providing businesses the ability to apply context to content, replace ambiguity with clarity, and provide understanding even in the absence of structure.
Board Member
Nov 2019
We are simplifying renewable energy asset management by offering purpose-built technologies and services that help our customers deliver industry-leading productivity, efficiency and returns. Every day we help our customers unlock the power of their data so they can make confident, informed decisions. Our team brings deep industry experience and a willingness to get our hands dirty to first understand and then solve customer problems on the ground. Learn more about our best-in-class technologies and how we’re helping the renewable energy industry realize its potential.
Board Member
Jul 2017
Worldsensing is a global IoT pioneer. We are experts in monitoring large-scale and civil infrastructure through IoT remote technology. Together with a global partner network, we serve engineering customers in 70+ countries across mining, construction, rail and structural health.
Board Member
Aug 2016
At Serious Integrated, we're all about connections. We connect people to machines, machines to each other, and your OEM system to the world. Offering a wide array of products to get you started, supported during development, and through to full production, Serious Integrated is your partner for OEM system design. Our wide array of products deliver an unprecedented level of flexibility and features engineered to deliver exactly what you need to make your development cycle as painless as possible. Choose from an expansive selection of graphic front panel LCD displays (SIMs), Power and Comms Modules (SCMs), and a variety of accessory units...not to mention full Engineering, Design, and Training Services.
Board Member
Oct 2015
Invixium is a leading global provider of touchless biometric solutions that utilize face recognition and temperature detection for access control, workforce management, and visitor screening. Invixium’s fully integrated hardware and software solution provides meaningful analytics to enterprises and industries for increased safety, health, security and productivity. During these unprecedented times, the security of organizations and the health of employees are ever so important. As countries ease lockdowns and plan for a return to the workplace, Invixium has been hard at work developing solutions to solve real-world problems at a rapid pace. By focusing on touchless biometric solutions that ensure the safety and security of the enterprise as well as the employee’s peace of mind; and by implementing technologies like fever detection, Invixium is leading the change into the new world of access control and workforce management. Our razor-sharp focus on enhancing the customer experience has driven us to devote countless hours to perfect our enterprise-grade software platform – IXM WEB. With intuitive workflows and data-driven dashboards, the software provides a comprehensive summary and health of your biometric system. Innovative features within the software, including IXM Time, Health, Link, Convert, and Translate, are designed to optimize enterprises’ access control or workforce management systems to be more efficient and productive. Invixium’s management team has a combined experience of more than 200 years in the biometric access control industry. This extensive experience manifests itself in everything that we have to offer. Invixium’s solutions have been deployed by major enterprises and industries across a broad spectrum of verticals including government, banking, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, refineries, seaports, mining, and higher education in over 60 countries. Invixium products are proudly Made in Canada.
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2021
Board Member
Oct 2021
LandingAI provides a cutting-edge software platform that enables computer vision easy for a wide range of applications across all industries.
Board Member
Jun 2021
At Triax, we provide innovative technology solutions to optimize labor and resources so that industrial sites are safer and more productive. We provide hard-to-capture data and deliver it in actionable insights, to empower better business decisions. To achieve this, Triax delivers a fully connected Internet of Things (IoT) platform through a proprietary communication hub designed for Construction, Oil & Gas, Energy, Heavy Industrial and other challenging IT environments. Our flagship Spot-r system elevates worksite visibility, safety, security and risk, connecting workers, equipment and operations through a scalable, minimal infrastructure network, wearable and sensor devices, and a cloud-based dashboard. By providing real-time, data-driven visibility into site access, worker and equipment location, manpower, safety incidents, and evacuation and muster procedures, Spot-r enables actionable insights, helping firms streamline processes and work safer and smarter. In May 2021, Triax launched Spot-r Radius, a light-weight solution that can be self-installed without the need for an IT team or existing infrastructure, yet provides cutting-edge capabilities. Spot-r Radius enhances worker safety with proactive alerting, automates data collection in the field, and helps optimize worksite efficiency with daily analytics reporting through its beacon-based network. Headquartered in Norwalk, CT with a Product Development Suite in East Hartford, CT, our solutions are designed, engineered, and serviced in-house. We pride ourselves on exceptional customer service, which is why we work hard every day to connect operations leaders and teams with the insights they need to operate safer and smarter.
Board Observer
Apr 2021
Poka transforms manufacturing operations by empowering workers with real-time access to knowledge, digital tools and expert support. Our AI-driven platform integrates training, communication and troubleshooting to foster continuous improvement and operational excellence. Our mission is to bridge the skills gap, reduce downtime, and drive safety, performance and quality to new heights. Poka’s powerful analytics engine makes it easy to identify issues in production, leading to quick and focussed resolutions. In 2023, Poka was acquired by IFS, an enterprise software leader in Enterprise Asset Management, Field Service Management and ERP. Together, we help manufacturing companies optimize their people, assets and processes. Join us in shaping the future of work in manufacturing.
2020
Board Member
May 2020
Thomson Reuters Document Intelligence is an AI-powered contract analytics platform that empowers institutions and legal teams to identify critical information in seconds to strategically advise their business. Document Intelligence uses AI trained by Practical Law attorney editors to read, organize, and manage business-critical document workflows and processes. With Document Intelligence, legal teams can perform cost-effective, efficient, & accurate due diligence reviews, extract insights, and pinpoint risk across thousands of documents in minutes - and it works from day one. Thomson Reuters Document Intelligence is the next generation of contract review empowering professionals and institutions to solve complex problems and make decisions with confidence. Our cloud-based AI platform reads, interprets, and extracts critical provisions and data elements at the intent, or thought level, providing businesses the ability to apply context to content, replace ambiguity with clarity, and provide understanding even in the absence of structure.
2019
Board Member
Nov 2019
We are simplifying renewable energy asset management by offering purpose-built technologies and services that help our customers deliver industry-leading productivity, efficiency and returns. Every day we help our customers unlock the power of their data so they can make confident, informed decisions. Our team brings deep industry experience and a willingness to get our hands dirty to first understand and then solve customer problems on the ground. Learn more about our best-in-class technologies and how we’re helping the renewable energy industry realize its potential.
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