Information Venture Partners

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Information Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in Series A and equity investments in seed, mid venture and early stage private companies. The firm also invests in growth stage venture-backed companies. It primarily invests in companies specializing in technology for the financial services industry and financial services enabled by technology. In B2B fintech the firm invests in core financial applications, security and crime prevention, financial data applications, insurtech, and capital markets. Within enterprise SAAS, the firm invests in GRC, regtech, customer engagement, collaboration, network infrastructure, fintech, enterprise software, information security, compliance and risk, technology management, collaboration and social networking, business intelligence, and business process management. Within financial services, it invests in electronic payments, commerce platforms, mass affluent investment and wealth management solutions, social networking, social lending including P2P lending, social investing, micro finance, micro lending, stored value and prepaid offerings, payment-enabled applications, money transfer, remittance services, mobile payments, and products and services for the under-banked. The firm seeks to invest in financial services focusing on corporate performance management and BI; and in cybersecurity focusing on threat detection and remediation. The firm invests in companies based in North America with a focus on Canada and United States. It seeks to invest in fintech and enterprise software startups with at least CAD1 million $0.74 million in annual recurring revenue. It prefers to make initial investment between CAD2 million $1.4 million and CAD6 million $4.4 million. The firm prefers to co-invest and seeks to have a board seat in its portfolio companies. Information Venture Partners was formerly known as RBC Venture Partners. Information Venture Partners was founded in 2014 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

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