Information Venture Partners

Information Venture Partners (IVP ) is a Canadian early-stage B2B-sector-specialist venture capital firm headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, focused exclusively on early-stage (seed, Series A, and early Series B) business-to-business fintech and enterprise SaaS companies based in the United States and Canada. The firm was founded as a spin-out from RBC Royal Bank of Canada's corporate venture arm in 2014 and is led by Managing General Partners Robert Antoniades and Dave Unsworth (former RBC Ventures executives), with Partner Jennifer Schaaf. Information Venture Partners invests in B2B-specific verticals including financial services technology (lending, wealth management, payments, InsurTech, regulatory-technology / RegTech), enterprise software / SaaS, data and analytics, cybersecurity, and vertical-SaaS themes, with typical initial check sizes in the USD / CAD 1 to 5 million range. The firm has raised multiple institutional funds (IVP II at CAD 85 million in 2015, IVP III at CAD 110 million in 2019) with aggregate AUM in the CAD / USD low-to-mid hundreds of millions range. Notable portfolio companies include Vena Solutions, Intelex Technologies, Scalyr, Filevine, WebMD (early crossover), Dessa (acquired by Square), and numerous other U.S. and Canadian B2B fintech / SaaS companies.