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NAventures
Corporate VCToronto · Seed–Growth · 8 people tracked
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Investment thesis
NAventures is the corporate venture capital arm of National Bank of Canada. It invests in, partners with, and helps scale early to mid-stage companies that aim to shape the future of financial institutions. Beyond providing capital, the firm emphasizes hands-on involvement, working alongside founders throughout the process to support the success of their ventures and create value together through strategic investments.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 8 people
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What they invest in
from 26 of 26 portfolio companiesFintech ×20AI & Machine Learning ×13Enterprise Software ×12SaaS ×11Data & Infrastructure ×7Cybersecurity ×3Consumer ×2Crypto & Web3 ×2
HQs:Canada×11United States×8Romania×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 19 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×72 founders×73 founders×34+ founders×2
Where their founders studiedfrom 25 founders with education data
HEC Montréal ×2Stanford University Graduate School of Business ×2Tel Aviv University ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 26 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×11Business & Management ×5Engineering ×5Finance & Accounting ×3Economics ×2Humanities ×2Life Sciences ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 29 founders with career history
PayPal ×3S&P Capital IQ ×3CosmoCom ×2Google ×2LendingClub ×2OpTier ×2Revolut ×2Uber ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
4 founders hold a PhD · 7 hold an MBA (of 28 with degree data)
Investments · 26 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 52025 · 12023 · 22022 · 12021 · 12019 · 111 dated
Borrowell offers Canadians free weekly Equifax credit scores and reports, along with credit monitoring, education, and personalized recommendations for financial products from over 75 partner institutions.
ConsumerFintech
Andrew Graham(Founder)in
Co-investorsAltai VenturesBDC Growth Venture FundClocktower VenturesDMZ VenturesKensington Capital Partners LimitedRogue Insight Capital+2 more
Callvu provides AI-powered workflow automation for financial services and regulated industries, enabling compliant customer interactions across channels with built-in compliance controls and direct system integration.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSales Tech
Dr. Ori Faran(Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder)Doron Rotsztein(Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder)inRoee Halfon(VP of Technical Operations, Co-Founder)in
Co-investorsPRYTEK
ClearEstate provides a technology platform for settling estates, automating administrative tasks and reducing professional fees for executors managing the estate settlement process.
FintechLegalTech
Co-investorsOMERS VenturesDiagramTriangle Capital
d1g1t provides wealth management and portfolio management software for financial advisors, RIAs, and multi-family offices.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSToronto, CA
Dan Rosen(CEO and Co-Founder)inPhilippe Rouanet(Founder)inBenoit Fleury(Founder)inJason Marks(Director)inDarie Urbanky(Director)Andrew L. Newcomb(Director)
Co-investorsExtreme Venture PartnersExtreme Venture Partners LLPFINTOP CapitalMissionOGGibraltar VenturesIlluminate Financial
Duality develops simulation software that models complex environmental scenarios and processes real-time sensor and machine data.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechRoboticsSan Mateo, US
Apurva Shah(Founder)inMichael Taylor(Founder)in
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesDorm RoomDrive CapitalHG VenturesIntel CapitalHearst Ventures+3 more
Duality provides a privacy-preserving data collaboration platform that lets organizations analyze and share sensitive, distributed data without moving or exposing it, using Privacy Enhancing Technologies such as fully homomorphic encryption, federated learning, and trusted execution environments.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & InfrastructureMaplewood, US
Kurt Rohloff(Executive Officer)inRina Shainski(Executive Officer, Director)Alon Kaufman(Executive Officer, Director)inShafi Goldwasser(Executive Officer)Vinod Vaikuntanathan(Executive Officer)in
BoardYuval Shachar(Director)in
Co-investorsLG Technology VenturesHearst VenturesIntel CapitalTeam8
Flinks provides account funding and payment initiation solutions for financial institutions, enabling digital-first deposit management with real-time processing and risk-free transactions.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureFintechSaaSToronto, CA
Julien D. Cousineau(Founder)in
Co-investorsInnoStart CapitalLuge CapitalPanache Ventures
FlowX.AI provides a platform with over 220 production-ready AI agents and an agent builder to automate mission-critical value streams such as onboarding, lending, underwriting, claims, and invoice reconciliation for regulated industries.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechBucharest, RO
Serban Chiricescu(Founder)in
Co-investorsDawn CapitalDay One CapitalDayone CapitalPortfoLion Capital PartnersSeedBlink
Fonds de solidarité FTQ is a Quebec labour-sponsored investment fund offering retirement and savings products (RRSP, TFSA, RRIF) that channel individuals' savings into Quebec businesses.
FintechImpact & Social Good
Co-investorsGrandBanks CapitalDiagramEndeavor CatalystFondactionLa Caisse
KOHO offers a mobile personal finance app for Canadian consumers, providing a spending account with cash back, interest-earning savings, credit building, cash advances, and additional services like eSIM and travel insurance.
ConsumerFintech
Co-investorsDrive CapitalFerst Capital PartnersTTV Capital
Maxa is an agentic platform that uses AI agents to build and maintain production-grade dbt data pipelines for finance and operations teams, unifying enterprise systems like SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, and Workday into a single data model.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Alexis C. Steinman(Founder)in
Co-investorsBastien Family OfficeBDC Industrial Innovation Venture FundFramework Venture PartnersGraphite VenturesYork IEAQC Capital+1 more
MindBridge builds AI-based financial risk intelligence software for audit and finance teams.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Solon Angel(Founder)in
Co-investorsReciprocal VenturesTrue North Fund
Multiverse.ai is a decentralized platform for building AI systems such as large language models, RAG, and chatbots, where contributors provide knowledge and data in exchange for ownership stakes.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Data & Infrastructure
Co-investorsArrington CapitalSamsung NextArrington XRP CapitalQatar Development BankZouk Capital
MX provides financial data connectivity, intelligence, and API tools that enable banks and fintechs to deliver personalized financial guidance and insights to their customers.
Data & InfrastructureFintechSaaSLehi, US
Brandon Dewitt(Co-Founder)inRyan Caldwell(Founder and CEO)in
Co-investorsBattery VenturesCapitalGCommerce VenturesCota CapitalCross Creek AdvisorsDG Daiwa Ventures+6 more
Nesto is an online mortgage lending platform in Canada that offers origination, funding, and servicing for residential mortgages with transparent pricing and simplified application processes.
AI & Machine LearningFintechPropTechSaaSCanada, CA
Malik Yacoubi(CEO & Co-Founder)inChase Belair(Co-Founder, Principal Broker)
Co-investorsBreyer CapitalDiagramExpedition Growth CapitalEndeavor CatalystFondactionFonds de solidarité FTQ+2 more
Nova Credit aggregates global credit bureau data, bank transaction data, and payroll information to help lenders assess borrowers and provide fairer access to credit for underserved populations including international newcomers, gig workers, and others traditionally excluded from the financial system.
Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechNew York City, US
Misha Esipov(Founder/CEO)inLoek Janssen(Cofounder)in
Co-investorsGeneral CatalystKleiner PerkinsA-Rod CorpAvid VenturesBallistic VenturesBetter Tomorrow Ventures+25 more
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OneVest provides an AI-native operating system platform for wealth management that integrates fragmented legacy systems, enabling financial firms to operate with greater speed, control, and scale.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechToronto, CA
Jakob Pizzera(Founder)inAmar Ahluwalia(Chief Executive Officer)in
Co-investorsAAF Management Ltd.Fin CapitalFJ LabsHarvest Venture PartnersLuge CapitalOMERS Ventures+5 more
Ownly provides a digital platform that helps home builders understand buyer behavior and guide prospective buyers through the entire homebuying journey, from initial exploration to purchase.
Enterprise SoftwareMarketing TechPropTechSaaSSales Tech
Jason Hardy(Co-Founder & CEO)inRay Yip(Co-Founder & CTO)in
Co-investorsGarage Capital
Sardine provides a fraud investigation platform that contextualizes risk across customers, devices, transactions, and businesses within an organization's ecosystem.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityFintechSan Francisco, US
Soups Ranjan(Founder & CEO)inAdi G(Founder)Zahid Shaikh(Founder)in
Co-investors11.2 CapitalActivant CapitalAndreessen HorowitzCannage CapitalCoinbase VenturesCross Creek Advisors+17 more
SortSpoke provides AI-powered document processing and analysis for insurance companies using machine learning models trained in Toronto.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareInsurTechSaaSToronto, CA
Jasper Liin
Co-investorsIDEA Fund PartnersScaleUP VenturesSixThirty Ventures
Spade provides transaction data enrichment and standardization for financial institutions, fintechs, platforms, and AI companies.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureFintechNew York City, US
Oban MacTavish(Founder)inCooper Hart(Cofounder)in
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzEvolution VenturesGradient VenturesOak HC/FTY CombinatorDash Fund+6 more
Synctera offers a banking-as-a-service platform with a single set of APIs covering core banking, card processing, money movement, and end-user onboarding, so companies can build fintech and embedded finance products.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSPalo Alto, US
Peter Hazlehurst(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardLogan Allin(Director)inFrederic Latreille(Director)inWilliam Kohler(Director)Ansaf Kareem(Director)inYvette Butler(Director)
Co-investorsDiagramEvolution VenturesFin CapitalFlucas VenturesLightspeed Venture PartnersNeythri Futures Fund+11 more
Walnut provides embedded insurance infrastructure that lets companies launch in-platform branded insurance programs through APIs or no-code integrations, without prior insurance experience.
FintechInsurTechSaaS
Derek Szeto(CEO, Co-Founder)inAdrien Niblock(CPO, Co-Founder)in
Co-investorsDiagramHarvest Venture PartnersA.Capital VenturesEight Roads VenturesFelicis VenturesNFX
Wisetack provides consumer financing at the point of sale, letting merchants offer their customers installment payment plans through Wisetack's lending partners.
FintechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Boyan Tzekin(Executive Officer, Director)Bobby Tzekin(CEO and Co-Founder)inKolya Klymenko(CTO & Co-Founder)inMykola "Kolya" Klymenko(CTO and Co-Founder)inLiz O'Donnell(Co-Founder (formerly COO))inKatya Baron(Chief Capital Officer)in
Co-investorsConversion CapitalFJ LabsGreylock PartnersInsight PartnersQuadrille CapitalUlu Ventures+2 more
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesNesto · betakit.com · Jun 10, 2026
Spade · pymnts.com · Mar 25, 2026
Memcyco · securityweek.com · Jan 27, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has NAventures made?
- NAventures has 26 tracked investments, including 6 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does NAventures invest at?
- NAventures invests at the Seed, Series A, Series B, Growth stages.
- What sectors does NAventures focus on?
- NAventures focuses on Fintech.
- Where is NAventures located?
- NAventures is headquartered in Toronto, CA.
- Who does NAventures co-invest with?
- NAventures most often shares deals with Diagram, Evolution Ventures, FJ Labs, among 93 tracked co-investors.
- What size deals does NAventures back?
- Across 6 deals with disclosed amounts, NAventures has joined rounds of $15M – $300M (median $33.5M).
Media · Podcasts & interviews
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