GreenSky Ventures

GreenSky Podcast Episode 10 is here!

🎅 Thanks to Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (CVCA) and Deloitte for hosting an end of year VC ecosystem event. 🎄 GreenSky Ventures managing partner Jeff Brunet and myself enjoyed meeting our VC ecosystem friends before the holidays. 🚀 One of the reasons I love what I do and makes my job very exciting every day is the people I get to work with not just in my team but across the Canadian tech ecosystem. 🥂 Here is to a productive and collaborative 2025! I am going to tag my amazing colleagues that are always awesome to see and I am going to miss lots of them! Kim Furlong, Janet Bannister, Anne No, Michelle Scarborough, Matthew Lombardi, Allen Lau, Lally Rementilla, CPA, CMA, Sunil Sharma, Aditya A.,Paula Cruickshank, Alison Nankivell, Jahangir Bhatti, Saif Hashmi, Jacob Topatigh, Talia Abramowitz, Robbie Marks, Prashant Matta, Mohamed Elabshihy, Aaron Bast, Kate Grant, Danielle Smith, Jacky Chen, Nima Mirpourian, Vahid Jozi, David Kornacki, Mellie Chow, MBA, P.Eng, PMP, CSM, Sara Bentham, Vera Xie, MBA

📢 GreenSky Podcast Episode 9 is Live Now! https://lnkd.in/emdEVcD v=624hRxsDBrA&ab_channel=GreenSkyVentures 🎙️In this episode, Moien Giashi, PhD, hosts Tim Angus, the CEO of GreenSky Ventures Portfolio Company, Brickeye! ⚫ Tim shares his experience as a serial entrepreneur in the energy and IoT sectors. ⚫ We talk about Brickeye's journey from inception to today, the ups and downs, pivots, etc. We also discussed the company's future and how their #construction risk and #concrete sensors change the industry. ⚫ We discuss how GreenSky's support helped Brickeye in its journey! Brickeye was founded by Hamid Alemohammad, PhD, Amir Azhari, PhD, MBA, and Richard Liang out of their research at the University of Waterloo! This is a timely episode as Brickeye was recently named Foresight Canada's 2024 #Foresight50 - a distinguished list of Canada’s 50 most investible cleantech ventures. Tune into the latest GreenSky Ventures #podcast episode and learn about Brickeye's story. #Entrepreneurship #Commercialization #Science #Canada #CanadianTech #Startups #VentureCapital #DeepTech #PodCast

GreenSky Ventures in Alberta! 🍁🏔️🌲 Our team has been busy this week in Calgary, Edmonton, and Kananaskis connecting to startups, Investors and startup ecosystem partners. Thanks to the Plug and Play Canada and Alberta Innovates for their amazing work!

GreenSky Ventures is excited to share that its portfolio company, Trolley, has secured $32 million in a Series B funding round! https://lnkd.in/gs_DA9-w

Congratulations Brickeye, a GreenSky portfolio company, for making Foresight's 50 most Investable companies in Canada! Foresight 50 - Meet Canada's Most Investible Companies - https://lnkd.in/gF4vVpJC

Our Principal, Moien Giashi, PhD has been busy last week with three events: 🌱 Moien moderated a session at the Lab2Market conference on Scaling up Bioprocessing startups from the lab. Thanks to Torrey Sirdevan for the invitation; 🌱 Joined a panel with Invest Ottawa alongside Raif Barbaros and Suzanne Grant, CD and Ingrid T. Polini, discussing with #Immigrant #Founders the ins and outs of fundraising for their startups. Thanks to Megan Maltby for the invitation; and 🌱 Joined the Innovation Cluster Peterborough and the Kawarthas for a session on fundraising and exits, supporting their cohort of founders as they gear towards fundraising. Thanks to Parastoo Shafiei. #VC #VCLife #Founder #Entrepreneur #Fundraising #Startup #Seed #PreSeed #CanadianTech #Commercialization #Ecosystem

Our Partner, Neil Peet (Rotman MGA/MBA 15'), had the opportunity to sit down with the University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management Dean Susan Christoffersen and Co-founder of Rhenti, Erin Chan (Rotman MBA 12') and discuss the role of mentorship and its importance for founders and investors. Thanks to Hussam W. Ayyad for including us and for their hard work in launching the Startup Rotman program. Over 150 students and 60+ mentors are part of this program, which launched ten startups last year during a pilot phase and is gearing to become bigger this year. Several members of the GreenSky Ventures team are alumni of the University of Toronto, the University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, and the Creative Destruction Lab, and we are excited to support various initiatives across UofT. CC: Greg Stewart, Moien Giashi, PhD #mentorship #founder #entrepreneur #venturecapital #investment #startup #mba #rotman #toronto #canada

Excited to see Kirk Petroski, founder of SYMX.AI chosen as - Rookie of the Year by CDL-Vancouver Even though he is chosen as the Rookie of the Year, Kirk has decades of experience in the mining industry and is a well-known figure and expert. #DeepTech #Mining #MiningIndustry #AI #Data #CanadianTech #NorthernOntario

Strategic Partnership Announcement - As International Risk Management Institute, Inc. (IRMI)’s 2024 Construction Risk Conference kicks off in San Diego, Brickeye is thrilled to announce a strategic partnership with iMitig8 Risk LLC, an expert in #riskengineering and #losscontrol insurance technology. The partnership is focused on mitigating #waterdamage and #concretedefects on major #construction projects, helping insureds and insurers reduce claim frequency and severity and lower the cost of #buildersrisk insurance. Water damage and concrete defects often result in significant financial losses, delays, litigation, and reputational damage. Together, Brickeye and iMitig8 Risk aim to address these challenges by providing the construction and insurance industries with an innovative approach to de-risking construction projects upfront by enabling enhanced #riskassessment through project risk scores, and mitigating job site incidents during construction in real-time through IoT-enabled #riskcontrols and analytics. Learn more about how this initiative will transform how construction risks are assessed and mitigated by reading the media release here: https://lnkd.in/gBmdSxSq #IRMI #ConstructionRisk #ConstructionTech #InsurTech #BuildersRisk #WaterMitigation #ConcreteDefects #IoT #InsuranceBrokers #InsuranceCarriers #GeneralContractors #OwnerDevelopers #IRMICRC