StandUp Ventures is thrilled to announce our investment in AssistIQ’s $2.5M Seed Round. We led the round with participation from some wonderful syndicate partners including N49P, The Kale Fund, and a roster of several notable operator and healthcare executive individual investors. The idea for Montreal-based AssistIQ initially came from the…

Serving the Proliferation of Self-Publishing Authors & Editors Mastering the Art of Story Editing StandUp Ventures is incredibly excited to announce our investment in Fictionary’s $1.8M seed round to accelerate growth of the creator economy platform. StandUp co-led the round with BDC’s new Thrive Venture Fund, with The51 and other angels also participating. Founded by Kristina and Mathew Stanley, Fictionary is a community-led SaaS-enabled…

What it takes to commercialize an invention, use a 15M Series B to achieve 400% YoY Growth (during a pandemic), and change the standard-of-care for knee health Invention and entrepreneurship are inextricably linked. You can have one without the other, but throughout history we often remember them as happening in parallel. Despite this, there are likely thousands of examples of inventors who were the only ones that ever used their invention! …

What a new analysis of 86 venture-financed companies tells us about the people benchmarks setting the groundwork for hyper-growth Everyone wants to understand the secret sauce of a fast-growing startup. And as a prospective investor, it can be especially tempting to boil decision-making down to a few key financial metrics, but it is rarely so simple. When looking for the next unicorn, a comprehensive evaluation of the founders, the…

Magic cofounder sauce, underdog upside, managing strategic investors, and what it takes to raise over 21M scaling technology in the world of construction management — For today’s conversation we chatted in-depth with the cofounders of StandUp ventures’ portfolio company Bridgit, a rapidly scaling company disrupting construction management — Mallorie Brodie and Lauren Lake. In 2020 Bridgit tripled revenue and closed a 9M strategic investment led by Autodesk, bringing the total amount raised to over 21M…

3 Investments, 2 Follow-Ons, and 1 Little Human — Ah, April 1st — the first day of the new quarter. 2021 definitely kicked off with a bang, while the team at StandUp is starting to get used to (dare I say, enjoying?) this whole remote investing thing. It was a pretty busy start to the year! Our family of…