fin tech companies of canada
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FinTech Companies of CanadaDecember 2015
A guide to Financial Technology companies
Ayodele George
@zeus_krips
Canada Based FinTech Startups
• “Big Five” is a term used for the top Banks that account for majority of business in Canada
• Strangely enough there are not many start-ups in this area to Augment or create innovative Financial solutions
• However, in recent times there has been progress and firms listed in this paper are some of the leading upstarts
• This is not meant to be an extensive list; And will be updated to keep up with trend
• Source of information include Google, Crunch Base, Angellist, techvibes, LinkedIn, theStar etc.
• See definition of FinTech.
• The key categories include Lending, Analytics, investment management, Recommendation, BlockChain, Relationship Management, Banking, Infrastructure and P2P
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• Borrowell is an online marketplace lending platform. Provide Canadians who have good credit with low, fixed interest loans.
• Category: Lending
• url: www.borrowell.com
• Founder CEO: Andrew Graham
• List of investors: Equitable Bank, Oakwest, Roger Martin, John Bitove, Dan Debow, Stewart Lyons, Joe Canavan & Freycinet Investments
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• Seedups is an online matching engine for entrepreneurs seeking seed stage funding from a crowd of Accredited Investors.
• Category: Lending
• url: www.seedups.com
• Founder/CEO: Michael Faulkner
• List of investors: N/A
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• Fundthrough helps successful entrepreneurs build their businesses even more quickly by providing lines of credit
• Category: Lending
• www.fundthrough.com
• Founders: Steven Uster, Graham McBride & Deepak Ramachandran
• List of investors: N/A
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• Financeit is a consumer lender offering affordable monthly payments to customers from any web enabled device
• Category: Lending
• url: www.financeit.io
• Founder CEO: Michael Garrity
• List of investors: TTV Capital, Inter-Atlantic Group, and Second City Capital.
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• EidoSearch applies advanced information processing techniques to make the world's time series data searchable. Markets include: Equities,Futures & FX
• Category: Analytics
• url: www.eidosearch.com
• Founder CEO: Xiao-Ping (Steven) Zhang
• List of investors: N/A
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• Control’s mission is to help business monitor, manage, and measure the most critical part of their operations: payments
• Category: Analytics
• url: https://www.getcontrol.co/
• Founder/CEO: Kathryn Loewen
• List of investors: Vanedge Capital and BDC Capital Inc
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• Wealthsimple is a simple yet sophisticated technology-driven investment manager.
• Category: Investment Management
• url: www.wealthsimple.com
• Founder CEO: Michael Katchen
• List of investors: Joe Canavan, Roger Martin, David Ossip, Dan Debow, and Impression Ventures – a new Canadian Venture Capital firm.
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• WealthBar is Canada's only full-service online portfolio management and financial advisory
• Category: Investment Management
• url: www.wealthbar.com
• Founder CEO: Tea Nicola
• List of investors: N/A
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• Nest Wealth is the first online automated wealth management platform in Canada.
• Category: Investment Management
• url: www.nestwealth.com
• Founder CEO: Randy Cass CFA, LLB, MBA
• List of investors: N/A
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• Smart Money Capital is an automated DIY investment service with “light advice” capabilities
• Category: Investment Management
• www.smartmoneyinvest.ca
• Founder/CEO: Nauvzer Babul
• List of investors: N/A
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• Nvest is a performance-tracked stock recommendation platform that helps investors gain credible information about the market.
• Category: Recommendation engine
• url: www.nvest.me
• Founder/CEO: Fredrick Zhou
• List of investors: N/A
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• Blockstream was founded to develop new ways to accelerate innovation in crypto currencies, open assets and smart contracts.
• Category: BlockChain
• url: www.blockstream.com/
• CEO: Austin Hill
• List of investors: LinkedIn co-founder and Airbnbboard member Reid Hoffman, Khosla Ventures, Real Ventures, Crypto Currency Partners, Google chairman Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, Future\Perfect Ventures, Mosaic Ventures, Ribbit Capital and Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang’s AME Cloud Ventures.
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• Ethereum can be used to codify, decentralize, secure & trade just about anything: financial exchanges, crowdfunding, company governance, contracts, intellectual property, etc.
• Category: BlockChain
• url: https://www.ethereum.org
• Founder/CEO: Vitalik Buterin
• List of investors: N/A
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• Zafin is a provider of relationship banking software solutions for Retail, Corporate, Wealth Management and Correspondent Banking
• Category: Relationship Management
• url: www.zafin.com
• Founder/CEO: Al Karim Somji
• List of investors: Kane Partners, Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, Beedie Capital Partners
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• Streetcontxt is a global communication platform for the institutional financial community, focused on timely and quality connections based around quality content and insight.
• Category: Relationship Management
• url: www.streetcontxt.com
• Founder/CEO: Blair Livingston
• List of investors: iNovia, formation | 8 & Social Leverage
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• Koho is a banking for millienials to launch 2015
• Category: Banking
• url: www.koho.ca
• Founder/CEO: Daniel Eberhard
• List of investors: iNovia, formation | 8 & Social Leverage
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• ZenBanx Canada was founded in 2014 to introduce Canadians to a simple and secure multi-currency savings account for Citizens of the World
• Category: Banking
• url: www.zenbanx.ca
• Founder/CEO: Arkadi Kuhlmann
• List of investors: Subsidiary of DUCA Financial Services
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• TickSmith offers cloud services and managed platforms to provide specific solutions to participants in the brokerage and trading ecosystem
• Category: Infrastructure
• url: www.ticksmith.com
• Founder/CEO: Francis Wenzel
• List of investors: N/A
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• Kooltra is a provider of cloud based platform built to optimize and revolutionize foreign exchange trading operations by offering cutting-edge technologies to financial institutions
• Category: Infrastructure (Capital Markets)
• url: www.kooltra.com
• Founder/CEO: Adam Katz
• List of investors: Relay Ventures
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• Social based platform for P2P money transfer between friends and individual
• Category: P2P
• url: http://www.paywithpayso.com/
• Founder/CEO: Jake Tyler
• List of investors: N/A
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