PORTFOLIO
“From getting on advisory calls and asking great questions during board meetings to making useful introductions, having Innovation Grade Ventures on our investor roster has been very valuable”
Parth Khanna, CEO Acto
Our portfolio ventures are either focused on health & wellness innovation or business to business sector solutions. What they have in common is the goal of disrupting the status quo with measurable impact.
Well.ca was acquired by McKesson, a $30 billion market cap company which builds supply chain solutions for pharmacies, manufacturers, and governments
Well.ca is Canada’s leading online destination for health, wellness, natural and baby products and has been ranked in the top 5% of customer experience in Canada for the last three consecutive years. With over 40,000-curated products, thousands of peer reviews, and Canada’s largest assortment of green and natural brands. With over 40,000-curated products, thousands of peer reviews, and Canada’s largest assortment of green and natural brands, Well.ca make it easy for consumers to make choices they can trust.
Mogo is on a mission to help consumers take control of their financial health with solutions that are easy to use, transparent, and unconventionally fun. By leveraging technology and design they are transforming the way over 500,000 Canadians manage their finances. The company offers a variety of digital financial services including personal loans, identity fraud protection, mortgages, a Visa Debit card, and credit score viewing through Equifax.
Bgood was formed by Anthony Ackil and Jon Olinto childhood friends who grew up eating Anthony's Uncle Faris' homemade food. Fifteen years later they started a restaurant with the same simple premise. Sourcing their ingredients from local farms and focusing heavily on customer experience, they have grown from their first restaurant in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts to almost a hundred locations in US, Canada, and Europe. Healthy, local ingredients form the basis of a delicious, family-friendly menu featuring burgers and sandwiches, seasonal salads, kale and grain bowls. Each restaurant is a tribute to the local farming community that made it happen with posters of participating farmers, reinforcing their philosophy of food made by people, not factories.
SSIMWave’s revolutionary platform was acquired by IMAX in 2022.
As streaming becomes the preferred consumer choice for video content, media and entertainment broadcasters and content producers use SSIMWave’s patented software products to provide the ability to control video quality-of-experience and bandwidth costs in a manner that is unmatched in the industry. The products are based on SSIMWave's video quality-of-experience monitoring technology that won a prime time Engineering Emmy. SSIMWave's products deliver improved video quality-of-experience and reduce bandwidth costs by 50%. Current clients include AMD, ebay, Amazon's Elemental Technologies, Telefonica, Comcast and Rogers.
Nicoya Lifesciences uses nanotechnology to reduce the cost and complexity of scientific instruments, making them accessible to everyone. By using highly sensitive biosensors, these instruments allow scientists to better understand diseases and develop new drugs to treat them. Nicoya Lifesciences was launched in 2012 as a spin-out of the University of Waterloo. Today, their scientific instruments have been used by hundreds of innovative researchers and labs in over 25 countries.
ACTO is an AI-powered SaaS platform that combines mobile experiences and engagement data to disrupt how drugs and devices are promoted and brought to market. Global life science companies partner with ACTO to transform their learners’ learning journey and experience at scale. Commercial and clinical leaders leverage ACTO’s Omnichannel Education platform to educate and engage learners across the care continuum through unifiedwww.actoapp.com educational experiences and journeys. Building an ecosystem for life sciences, ACTO holds a network of partnerships with content agencies, data providers, technology companies, and more. ACTO is headquartered in Toronto, with a global team across Canada, the United States, and India. For more information on ACTO for Life Sciences, visit https://acto.com/
Underknown owns the most most-watched science and technology show in the world, What If? Their multi-language produced shows take you to the frontiers of science, tell the greatest under known stories from history and make the most complex ideas and theories entertaining and accessible. Since launching in February 2018, over 6 billion people reached on Facebook, 1 billion views, 340 million watched minutes, are testament to the powerful stories presented.
Alpha Cancer Technologies' innovative approach to cancer treatment has attracted Celgene Corporation (www.celgene.com) as a strategic investor. Alpha founders understood that conventional chemotherapy often results in extensive damage to all of the cells in a person's body, both cancerous cells and healthy ones. They solve this challenge via an innovative targeted chemotherapy delivery platform for the treatment of cancer. Alpha uses recombinant human alpha-fetoprotein to exclusively target cancer cells by delivering toxic chemotherapeutic agents exclusively to the cancerous cells. Accordingly, this approach offers the benefits of much lower toxicity to the body and greater efficacy compared to conventional chemotherapy.
Started as a Kickstarter project, Nix is now a patented handheld device that can measure the colour of any surface and provide that information to the user's smartphone. Unlike current solutions, like color fan decks and smartphone apps, the Nix Color Sensor's patented design blocks out all ambient light, providing a calibrated light source to provide an unprecedented level of accuracy. Applications for Nix reside in a diverse set of sectors that rely on accurate color matching as a core competency including Paint, Cosmetic, Food & Agriculture, Printing, Automotive and Textiles sectors.
ProNavigator is a technology company using artificial intelligence to reinvent the customer experience and drive growth in the insurance industry. Their pre-trained insurance virtual assistant helps insurers and agencies automate customer inquiries through almost any channel the customer prefers. Their platform specializes in coaching users through underwriting, claims, service, and sales support to ensure their customers have 24/7 service when and where it’s convenient for them.
The Bonne O Sparkling Beverage System has transformed the category of home carbonation by focusing on two key elements. First, the team designed an elegant and innovative kitchen appliance that eliminates the need for the cumbersome refilling of CO2 tanks associated with many home carbonation systems. Next, they imagined a line of natural fruit flavours and whole fruit additions that turn any water-based drink into a delicious and healthy infusion. From a 100% natural sparkling mint-infused green tea using a real green tea bag and a sprig of mint to an orange soda using only actual orange slices and water, Bonne O meets the growing demand for healthy beverages and customer-driven customization by giving consumers control of what goes into their family's drinks.
Bridgit Bench is the first and only platform designed to plan your entire construction workforce. Companies use it to plan workforce allocations from Project Managers to Engineers to filling requests for craft workers, Bench helps plan the best possible teams for project needs. It is used by over 200 of the Top 400 construction companies in North America. Bridgit’s equity partners including Salesforce Ventures, Sands Capital, Vanedge Capital, BDC and Innovation Grade Ventures.
Fable is a leading accessibility testing platform powered by people with disabilities. Fable moves organizations from worrying about compliance, to building exceptional, accessible user experiences. The best digital teams work with Fable to make products more accessible for over 1 billion people who live with disabilities.
Labscubed has innovated an automated machine that conducts tensile testing of polymers including rubbers, plastics, and soon adhesives. Before products are designed with these raw materials, the materials must be tested for tension, strength and durability. Currently engineering staff in manufacturers’ R&D labs globally are forced to manually test these inputs using manual laborious processes, all while inputting test results into spreadsheets. Labscubed has innovated this entire process via a unique piece of hardware that enables an R&D lab to automate multiple simultaneous tests and capture of data results. Engineers are now freed up for more higher value research opportunities, and material testing is done more efficiently and accurately.
