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Portfolio & Founders News Stories
Conduit Raises $17M in Seed Funding
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Portfolio & Founders Innovation
Conduit: Making Financial Growth Accessible for Everyone
Diagram is proud to announce the launch of Conduit, a DeFi enablement platform that is simplifying how traditional fintechs offer mainstream customers...
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Portfolio & Founders News Stories
StreamingFast (formerly DFuse) Receives US $60M Grant
We are excited to share that The Graph Foundation awarded a $60 million grant to StreamingFast (formerly known as DFuse) to join The Graph ecosystem a...
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Portfolio & Founders News Stories
ClearEstate Announced US Launch and C$2.5M Round
We’re proud to share that ClearEstate, announced C$2.5M in seed extension funding to support product innovation and an expanded further rollout across...
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Portfolio & Founders News Stories
nesto Raises $76M Series B to Offer Canadians A Better Mortgage Experience
We are proud to share that Diagram’s Opportunity Fund, our first growth-focused fund, closed at $120M, exceeding our target range of $80-$100M.
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News Stories
Diagram’s Opportunity Fund Has Final Close at $120M
We are proud to share that Diagram’s Opportunity Fund, our first growth-focused fund, closed at $120M, exceeding our target range of $80-$100M.
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Portfolio & Founders News Stories
Synctera Raises $33M Series A
Synctera’s Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) Platform is Driving the Evolution of Community Banks in North America
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Portfolio & Founders News Stories
The Future of Corporate Sustainability Management with Novisto
Today, Diagram is proud to share that Novisto has raised Series A funding of US$8M to support their innovation and product roadmap, and to help the co...
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Portfolio & Founders News Stories
Welcome Wingocard: Empowering Teens With Financial Autonomy
Diagram is thrilled to share the launch and funding of Wingocard: a mobile banking app designed for teens and their parents. Wingocard launches with a...
![Diagram’s New Opportunity Fund: Continued support for our growing portfolio](https://preprod.diagram.ca/files/common/hiro/_652xAUTO_crop_Top-Left_90_none/redd-vUwJ8uu_C1M-unsplash.jpg)
News Stories
Diagram’s New Opportunity Fund: Continued support for our growing portfolio
We are excited to announce the first close of $60M for our Opportunity Fund, which was raised primarily from Canadian family offices and entrepreneurs...
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Portfolio & Founders News Stories
Dialogue: From idea to IPO in 5 years
Dialogue announced today the close of its IPO process, and Diagram is delighted to congratulate them on this momentous occasion.
![Building the Future of Partnership Banking with Synctera](https://preprod.diagram.ca/files/common/hiro/_652xAUTO_crop_Top-Left_90_none/museums-victoria-VLg5MhJLTds-unsplash.jpg)
Portfolio & Founders Innovation
Building the Future of Partnership Banking with Synctera
Today we’re excited to share the launch and funding round of our latest portfolio company, Synctera. Together, we believe this team and technology wil...
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Innovation
Canada as a place to build
Building in Canada and specifically Montreal has always been a personal mission of mine. As a Montreal-native who spent a good amount of time in close...
![Welcome Retirable: Why Diagram Co-Founded a Retirement Platform](https://preprod.diagram.ca/files/common/hiro/_652xAUTO_crop_Top-Left_90_none/alvaro-reyes-3Cigxs7xEkM-unsplash.jpg)
Portfolio & Founders Innovation
Welcome Retirable: Why Diagram Co-Founded a Retirement Platform
Throughout 2019, Diagram’s Innovation team has been digging through research, creating MVPs and interviewing countless experts about the U.S. retireme...
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Innovation
Seasoned Founders Series: Julien Smith
We are proud to share that Diagram’s Opportunity Fund, our first growth-focused fund, closed at $120M, exceeding our target range of $80-$100M.
![The Collage Journey: From Idea to Acquisition in 3 years](https://preprod.diagram.ca/files/common/hiro/_652xAUTO_crop_Top-Left_90_none/collage_team-2048x1347.jpeg)
Portfolio & Founders News Stories
The Collage Journey: From Idea to Acquisition in 3 years
Collage has come a long way since its inception as a startup.
![How we do “Innovation” at Diagram](https://preprod.diagram.ca/files/common/hiro/_652xAUTO_crop_Top-Left_90_none/leon-Oalh2MojUuk-unsplash.jpg)
Innovation
How we do “Innovation” at Diagram
My team’s mission is to find or invent, nurture, and “de-risk” new venture ideas that can be put in the hands of amazing entrepreneurs and become the ...
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Innovation
Our Philosophy on Talent
Great companies can only be built with great people. This is something that Francois Lafortune believed in deeply and he knew Talent needed to be a pr...
![The Diagram Way](https://preprod.diagram.ca/files/common/hiro/_652xAUTO_crop_Top-Left_90_none/diagram-ventures-by-eva-blue-054.jpeg)
Innovation
The Diagram Way
I’ve always known I wanted to be an entrepreneur. At 8 years old, when burgers were on sale for $0.29 at Burger King, I was buying them in bulk, freez...
![Welcome dfuse - Helping Blockchain Developers Shine](https://preprod.diagram.ca/files/common/hiro/_652xAUTO_crop_Top-Left_90_none/chuttersnap-mf-o1E7omzk-unsplash.jpg)
Portfolio & Founders Innovation
Welcome dfuse - Helping Blockchain Developers Shine
Overview of dfuse – a blockchain company. In this month’s Company Profile Series we bring you dfuse, a blockchain gem in Diagram’s ecosystem. Through ...
![Helping Canadians save on their mortgages by leveraging technology and understanding their needs on a deeper level](https://preprod.diagram.ca/files/common/hiro/_652xAUTO_crop_Top-Left_90_none/fabian-blank-pElSkGRA2NU-unsplash.jpg)
Portfolio & Founders News Stories
Helping Canadians save on their mortgages by leveraging technology and understanding their needs on a deeper level
Overview of nesto – a virtual mortgage company
![Seasoned Founder Series: Yves Poiré](https://preprod.diagram.ca/files/common/hiro/_652xAUTO_crop_Top-Left_90_none/0-3.jpeg)
Innovation
Seasoned Founder Series: Yves Poiré
In our Seasoned Founder Series, on a monthly basis, we will feature an impressive Canadian founder to better understand what it means to launch, scale...
![BreatheLife: Bringing Financial Security to Millions by Redefining how Individual Insurance is Bought and Sold](https://preprod.diagram.ca/files/common/hiro/_652xAUTO_crop_Top-Left_90_none/cdc-20YP7NENJzk-unsplash.jpg)
Portfolio & Founders News Stories
BreatheLife: Bringing Financial Security to Millions by Redefining how Individual Insurance is Bought and Sold
Overview of Breathe Life – a B2B InsurTech. Last month, in our portfolio company profile series, we wrote about Dialogue, our first portfolio company,...
![Bringing Fintech and Founders Together at Startupfest](https://preprod.diagram.ca/files/common/hiro/_652xAUTO_crop_Top-Left_90_none/0-1.jpeg)
News Stories
Bringing Fintech and Founders Together at Startupfest
A recap of the Fintech & Founders cocktail that Diagram organized during Montréal’s largest tech event
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Innovation
Why I Co-Founded Diagram
FinTech is a generational investment opportunity today I grew up listening to stories about my grandfather’s grit and determination and his incredible...
![From an Idea to a $40m Series B in 3 years](https://preprod.diagram.ca/files/common/hiro/_652xAUTO_crop_Top-Left_90_none/merged3-1.jpg)
Portfolio & Founders
From an Idea to a $40m Series B in 3 years
Overview of Dialogue, Canada’s Leading Telehealth Company Welcome to our latest series in which we will tell you more about Diagram’s portfolio compan...
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Innovation
The Best Co-Founder a Team Could Want
I was sitting in the new offices of the two-month-old Smooch Technologies, on the 12th floor of a converted schmatta building in Mile-End, one of Mont...
![Diagram announces close of $55-million second fund and adds Hamnett Hill as Partner](https://preprod.diagram.ca/files/common/hiro/_652xAUTO_crop_Top-Left_90_none/nick-wessaert-JI01fn0U7Cg-unsplash.jpg)
News Stories
Diagram announces close of $55-million second fund and adds Hamnett Hill as Partner
Diagram Ventures (“Diagram”), a venture-builder that co-founds companies that pursue big ideas in the financial and insurance sectors, today announced...
![Together, We Are Building Giants](https://preprod.diagram.ca/files/common/hiro/_652xAUTO_crop_Top-Left_90_none/intro_to_diagram.jpg)
Innovation
Together, We Are Building Giants
Introducing Diagram’s Venture Builder Model and new $55-million fund. When people ask why I launched Diagram, there are two types of answers I typical...
![Diagram welcomes serial entrepreneurs Dan Robichaud and Marc-Antoine Ross](https://preprod.diagram.ca/files/common/hiro/_652xAUTO_crop_Top-Left_90_none/annie-spratt-dWYU3i-mqEo-unsplash.jpg)
News Stories
Diagram welcomes serial entrepreneurs Dan Robichaud and Marc-Antoine Ross
Diagram shifts focus to launching new companies with early success of initial two ventures, expanded team, and 7 additional angel investors.
![New venture launchpad Diagram announces close of $25-million fund](https://preprod.diagram.ca/files/common/hiro/_652xAUTO_crop_Top-Left_90_none/luca-bravo-SRjZtxsK3Os-unsplash.jpg)
News Stories
New venture launchpad Diagram announces close of $25-million fund
New incubator poised to establish Canada as FinTech leader