OMERS Ventures — 2018 Investments

5 investments dated 2018 · listed companies and verified rows first · show all

Busbudbusbud.com inSep 2018

Busbud is a platform that aggregates and enables booking of intercity bus tickets from thousands of bus operators across 80+ countries.

B2B MarketplacesMarketplacesSaaSTravel & HospitalityMontreal, CA

Louis-Philippe Maurice(CEO)Michael Gradek(CTO)inFrederic Thouin(Chief Analytics Officer)inLP Maurice(Founder)inDavid Burridge(Secretary and VP Finance and Corporate Development)inErik Blachford(Director)in

Co-investorsCanadian Business Growth Fund FJ Labs K3 Ventures K3V Ventures Plaza Ventures Revolution +3 more

Contentfulcontentful.com inDec 2018 · $34MAcquired

Contentful is a Berlin-founded headless CMS delivering structured content via APIs, being acquired by Salesforce.

Sascha Konietzke(Founder)inSteve Sloan(CEO)inPaolo Negri(Founder)

Co-investorsArtisanal Ventures Balderton Capital General Catalyst Heavybit Point Nine Quint Ventures +10 more

DuckDuckGoduckduckgo.comAug 2018

DuckDuckGo is a privacy-focused search engine and technology company that emphasizes user protection and data privacy in web search and AI services.

Developer ToolsSaaSPaoli, US

Gabriel Weinberg(Founder)in

Co-investorsAvenir Growth Capital Felicis Ventures Impact America Fund Long Journey Ventures Lux Capital Smash Capital +6 more

OB1ob1.ioMar 2018 · $5M

OB1 develops OpenBazaar, an open-source protocol and software for decentralized, cryptocurrency-based peer-to-peer commerce.

Fairfax, US

Brian Hoffman(Executive Officer, Director)inWashington Sanchez(Executive Officer, Director)Samuel Patterson(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardWilliam Mougayar(Director)

Co-investorsUnion Square Ventures (USV)Andreessen Horowitz Bitmain BlueYard Capital Digital Currency Group

Touchbistrotouchbistro.com in 𝕏Jun 2018 · $55MAcquired

TouchBistro is an all-in-one POS and restaurant management system that provides restaurateurs with payment processing, online ordering, reservations, and related tools.

FoodTechRetail TechSaaS

Co-investorsFrancisco Partners Kensington Capital Partners Limited Round13 Capital Venture Ontario Relay Ventures

Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.