Our greatest asset is our experience.
Our greatest asset
is our experience
Our greatest asset is our experience
Every business we invest in gives us deeper insight. For more than a decade, we’ve taken growing businesses to new places using the expertise we’ve gained working with companies in a variety of sectors from consumer to trade to tech.
Here’s a brief summary of our current and past ventures:
Every business we invest in gives us deeper insight. For more almost three decades, we’ve taken growing businesses to new places using the expertise we’ve gained working with companies in a variety of sectors from consumer to trade to tech.
Here’s a brief summary of our current ventures:
Operating Companies
Equity Investments
Waxwell
Waxwell
Waxwell
Fulmer & Company Announces Strategic Investment in Waxwell to Accelerate Growth and Expansion
Fulmer & Company Announces Strategic Investment in Waxwell to Accelerate Growth and Expansion
Fulmer & Company Announces Strategic Investment in Waxwell to Accelerate Growth and Expansion
Founded in 2022, Waxwell offers an extensive range of waxing, brow and lash services along with a unique selection of beauty products in the skincare, body, and brow categories.
Katherine Thibault, Founder and CEO
Eirene
Eirene
Eirene
Fulmer & Company participates in seed round financing
Fulmer & Company participates in seed round financing
Fulmer & Company participates in seed round financing
Eirene provides a modern, caring, affordable, and transparent approach to cremation services. Co-founders Mallory Greene and Faisal Abid started Eirene to create a compassionate arrangement alternative for families in Canada.
Co-founders Mallory Greene and Faisal Abid
Blume
Blume
Blume
Fulmer & Co. Leads Investment Round in Superfood brand Blume
Fulmer & Co. Leads Investment Round in Superfood brand Blume
Fulmer & Co. Leads Investment Round in Superfood brand Blume
Born out of a desire for a better way to enhance your daily rituals with or without coffee, while also staying true to your wellness goals, Co-Founder and CEO Karen Danudjaja created Blume, a selection of drink mixes that create latte-style beverages packed with superfood-flavour.
Karen Danudjaja - Co Founder and CEO
Wayleadr
Wayleadr
Wayleadr
Fulmer & Company participates in seed round financing
Previously a wholly owned subsidiary of Fulmer & Company.
Wayleadr’s last mile software solution optimizes the commuter experience for employee and visitors, building owners and operators, and corporate organizations who share similar challenges around EV charging, car space efficiency and sharing and flexibility of car spaces. Wayleadr's world first technology includes simple integrations to existing workflows while also providing opportunities for revenue sharing and the reduction of clients' commuting footprint.
Garret Flower - Founder and CEO
Chiwis
Wize Spirits
Chiwis
Fulmer & Company leads investment round in superfruit snack-foods brand Chiwis
Fulmer & Co. Leads Seed Investment Round in Wize Spirits
The 100%-natural, vegan-friendly, non-GMO snack food company launched in February 2021 with two flavours of fruit chips — original Kiwi and a Tropical variety of kiwi, pineapple and coconut chips. Recently, the company added three new flavours to the fruit-chip family (Orange, Mango and Piña), that followed their philosophy of utilizing upcycled, fibre-rich and nutrient-dense rinds, cores and husks of fruit.
Sarah Goodman, Founder & CEO
Wize Spirits
Wize Spirits
Wize Spirits
Fulmer & Co. Leads Seed Investment Round in Wize Spirits
Fulmer & Co. Leads Seed Investment Round in Wize Spirits
Wize Spirits is made from all-natural gluten-free flavors, 100% premium Canadian vodka and has only 100 calories per can. The product line up of Cream Soda, Vanilla Cola, Root Beer, Grape’sicle and Orange’sicle is a throwback to nostalgia inspired flavours with a hard soda twist.
Eugene Park, Founder & CEO
CareCru Inc
CareCru Inc
CareCru Inc
Fulmer & Company led a substantial subsequent investment round following our original seed round participation.
Fulmer & Company is a substantial Seed Round investor.
CareCru is a local tech start-up, and the creator of Donna™ - a virtual dental practice assistant, powered by Artificial Intelligence. Hiring Donna is like adding three world-class team members to the practice. Donna is a front office assistant who helps manage schedules and communicate with patients. Donna is a marketing specialist who manages web presence and acquires new patients. Lastly, Donna is a practice consultant that reveals the health of the practice and offers key insights to help business thrive. Through Donna, dental clinics can manage and grow practices more effectively, while drastically enhancing patients' experience.
Lonny McLean, CEO
Drrops
Drrops
Drrops
Fulmer & Company is a major angel investor.
Fulmer & Company is a major angel investor.
Fulmer & Company is a major angel investor.
Fulmer & Company is a major angel investor.
Drrops is a mobile application that was built to bridge the gap between digital collectives and live concerts. Music fans can own, collect and trade exclusive digital content, live moments and custom rewards from the artists and festivals they love. Fans can easily access the mobile app while at their event and collect unique digital memorabilia or Drrops, with access via custom geofencing infrastructure on iOS. One of the biggest benefits of this technology is Drrops’ ability to build a community and a marketplace of consistent high-quality content which has artists and fans right at its core.
Encycle
Encycle
Encycle
Fulmer & Company was a substantial investor.
Fulmer & Company is a substantial investor.
Founded in 2005, Encycle has become a leading technology-driven company in improving the efficiency of commercial and industrial HVAC systems. Its patented, cloud-based Swarm Logic® offers an automated HVAC solution. By using its unique technology and integration, Swarm Logic is able to synchronize and analyze data quickly, create dynamic models for each building and its thermal load profile, and distribute energy consumption smartly and efficiently.
President & COO, Steve Alexander
Aquacycl
Aquacycl
Aquacycl
Fulmer & Company is a substantial Series A investor.
Fulmer & Company is a substantial Series A investor.
Founded in 2016, Aquacycl is a cleantech company based in San Diego. Its BioElectrochemical Treatment Technology (BETT®) system provides a sustainable approach for onsite wastewater treatment. It is the only plug-and-play technology that's created to meet the commercial needs. Some of the biggest benefits of using the BETT® system are efficiency, no methane production, energy neutral, while achieving significant savings on operational costs.
CEO, Orianna Bretschger
Omnie Integrated Services
Omnie Integrated Services
Omnie Integrated Services
Fulmer & Company is a major angel investor.
Fulmer & Company is a major angel investor.
Omnie Integrated Services is a Vancouver based startup that offers true omnichannel solutions to B2C businesses. Each Omnie custom-built platform provides support to the existing customer service team in the format of voice, SMS, email, contact form, live chat and social media. By using Omnie services, businesses can re-distribute resources and effort in elevating customers' in-person experience. Omnie is a team of brand-conscious individuals with world-class training and professional experience. Its mission is to deliver industry-leading response time and top-tier customer satisfaction.
Founder and General Manager, Jordan Brown
ClacierGrid
Therma
Therma
Fulmer & Company is a strategic investor.
Fulmer & Company is a strategic investor.
Fulmer & Company is a strategic investor.
GlacierGrid, formerly Therma, is an environmentally responsible company that builds hardware and software for food safety and quality management. The company, named after its proprietary IOT device, has created a sensor-based 24/7 smart refrigeration monitoring platform. Its primary users are businesses in food, healthcare, hospitality, and manufacturing industries. By introducing Therma to the commercial cold chain system, the company aims to improve the supply chain performance, ensuring product safety and sustainability while reducing refrigerant emissions and food waste.
Founder & CEO, Manik Suri
Little Kitchen Academy
Little Kitchen Academy
Little Kitchen Academy
Fulmer & Company is a substantial Series 2 investor.
Fulmer & Company is a substantial Series 2 investor.
Little Kitchen Academy, founded in 2019, is Montessori-inspired cooking academy, provding kids ages three through teens with curated culinary programs. The flagship facility is located in the heart of Vancouver, with a mission to create a more educated, empowered and healthy society through responsible diet and lifestyle choices. Through completing LKA programs, children learn the concept of healthy living, and develop personal and teamwork skills.
Brian Curin, Founder & CEO
Clir Renewables
Clir Renewables
Clir Renewables
Fulmer & Company is a strategic investor.
Fulmer & Company is a strategic investor.
Founded in 2017, Clir Renewables is a leading renewable energy AI software company offering an innovative cloud-based platform that connects directly to renewable energy assets, collects operation data, and uses algorithms to analyze and provide near real-time stats to help power plants operators understanding energy consumption and optimizing energy usage for better production output.
Gareth Brown, Founder & CEO
Solstice Power Technologies
Solstice Power Technologies
Solstice Power Technologies
Fulmer & Company was a substantial Seed Round investor.
Fulmer & Company is a substantial Seed Round investor.
Fulmer & Company is a substantial Seed Round investor.
Solstice Power Technologie is a community solar startup founded by two MIT MBA alumni in 2014. The company is based in Cambridge, MA, with one mission to accomplish - make solar energy available for every American. Solstice builds a system that enrolls local households and organizations in community solar programs, negotiates with solar developers for simpler contracts, and uses its proprietary customer qualification software to manage data and improve residents' participation opportunities.
Stephanie Speirs, Co-Founder and CEO
Sandhya Murali, Co-Founder and COO
GoJava.ca
GoJava.ca
GoJava.ca
Fulmer & Company was a substantial Series A and B investor.
Fulmer & Company is a substantial Series A and Series B investor.
Based in Toronto, GoJava is a Canadian social enterprise offering a green and modern B2B office services platform. The unique two-way delivery system brings healthy and local refreshment products as well as office services into workspaces and harvests the hard-to-recycle waste materials upon leaving. Their clients range from boutique offices to multi-location companies who currently are centralized in the Toronto and Ottawa areas.
Eugene Ace, Co-Founder & CEO
Evan Birmann, Co-Founder & COO
Based in Toronto, GoJava is a Canadian social enterprise offering a green and modern B2B office services platform. The unique two-way delivery system brings healthy and local refreshment products as well as office services into workspaces and harvests the hard-to-recycle waste materials upon leaving. Their clients range from boutique offices to multi-locatio companies who currently are centralized in Toronto and Ottawa areas.
Eugene Ace, Co-Founder & CEO
Evan Birmann, Co-Founder & COO
Based in Toronto, GoJava is a Canadian social enterprise offering a green and modern B2B office services platform. The unique two-way delivery system brings healthy and local refreshment products as well as office services into workspaces and harvests the hard-to-recycle waste materials upon leaving. Their clients range from boutique offices to multi-locatio companies who currently are centralized in Toronto and Ottawa areas.
Eugene Ace, Co-Founder & CEO
Evan Birmann, Co-Founder & COO
Social Nature
Social Nature
Social Nature
Fulmer & Company is a substantial Seed Round investor.
Fulmer & Company is a substaintial Seed Round investor.
Social Nature is a Vancouver based digital marketing platform for better-for-you brands. Its mission is to drive more sustainable consumption and production patterns. Consumers use Social Nature to discover and test new consumer packaged goods (CPG) that are within the green and natural category. Based on consumer demand data and product feedback collected from the testing platform, CPG brands can then quickly evaluate and move products that have been validated onto retail shelves.
Annalea Krebs, Founder & CEO
Intelligent City
Intelligent City
Intelligent City
Fulmer & Company is the lead investor of a CA$3.1M financing round.
Fulmer & Company is the lead investor of a CA$3.1M financing round.
Fulmer & Company is the lead investor of a CA$3.1M financing round.
Founded in 2008, Intelligent City’s mission is to empower people to live better urban lives. The company has been a leader in innovative urban housing, sustainability, building technology and design methodology and has gained municipal approvals and broad government support for its mass timber building system and technology development. Currently, the company is working on several significant projects in the Pacific Northwest with constructions planned to start in 2020.
Oliver Lang, Founder & CEO
ChopValue Manufacturing Ltd
ChopValue Manufacturing Ltd
ChopValue Manufactur-ing Ltd
Fulmer & Company is a major pre-series A investor and co-lead investor of Series B.
Fulmer & Company is a major pre-series A investor and co-lead investor of Series B.
ChopValue is a product engineering and design firm that gives used chopsticks a second life. With the goal of opening micro-factories on a global scale, the concept is local in all aspects - from sourcing these under-utilized resources, to uniquely manufacturing and providing high-value products - all while minimizing their carbon footprint through its solutions.
Felix Böck, Founder & CEO
Afterglow Skin & Laser Centre Inc
Afterglow Skin & Laser Centre Inc
Afterglow Skin & Laser Centre Inc
Formally a subsidiary of Fulmer & Company.
A subsidiary of Fulmer & Company, owned in partnership with Dr. Shehla Ebrahim, Medical Director.
A subsidiary of Fulmer & Company, owned in partnership with Dr. Shehla Ebrahim, Medical Director.
A recent addition to the Fulmer & Company family of businesses, Afterglow is one of the fastest-growing consolidators of Medical Aesthetics facilities in Canada. Taking a holistic approach to skincare and personal rejuvenation, their highly trained medical team helps people look as vibrant as they feel, without invasive surgery or excessive downtime. Look for more locations popping up soon.
A recent addition to the Fulmer & Company family of businesses, Afterglow is one of the fastest growing consolidators of Medical Aesthetics facilities in Canada. Taking a holistic approach to skin care and personal rejuvenation, their highly trained medical team helps people look as vibrant as they feel, without invasive surgery or excessive downtime. Look for more locations popping up soon.
Carey Dillen - President & CEO
BBS Pro Services Inc
BBS Pro Services Inc
BBS Pro
Services Inc
A subsidiary of Fulmer & Company, owned in partnership with members of the Executive Team.
A subsidiary of Fulmer & Company, owned in partnership with members of the Executive Team.
A subsidiary of Fulmer & Company, owned in partnership with members of the Executive Team.
One of Western Canada’s largest full-service suppliers and distributors of biodegradable cleaning products, BBS Pro Services Inc. began formulating and manufacturing specialized cleaning products in 1995. Through a merger in 2016, the company also became Canada’s largest installer and service provider of draft beer systems, proudly serving the hospitality industry for over 25 years.
One of Western Canada’s largest full-service suppliers and distributors of biodegradable cleaning products, BBS Pro Services Inc. began formulating and manufacturing specialized cleaning products in 1995. Through a merger in 2016, the company also became Canada’s largest installer and service provider of draft beer systems, proudly serving the hospitality industry for over 25 years.
Kate Hoogandorn, CEO
Western Restaurant Franchises Inc
Western Restaurant Franchises Inc.
Western Restaurant
Franchises Inc.
Western Restaurant Franchises Inc.
A subsidiary of Fulmer & Company, owned in partnership with President & CEO Fred Trembath.
What began with a single A&W franchise back in 1997, quickly grew into one of the largest A&W franchise organizations in Western Canada. Through smart financing, great local management teams and a deep respect for customers and employees alike, Western Restaurant Franchises currently owns and operates 36 booming A&W locations, serving neighbourhoods from BC to Saskatchewan.
Fred Trembath, President & CEO
Caffé Artigiano
Caffé Artigiano
Caffé Artigiano
Fulmer & Company was a provider of mezzanine debt and strategic advice for the Executive Team.
Fulmer & Company is a provider of mezzanine debt and strategic advice for the Executive Team.
Vancouver’s most beloved coffee brand, Caffé Artigiano has been built around a passion for coffee, community and the people it serves with a commitment to customer enjoyment, personal connection and environmental sustainability. Since humbly opening its first location in 1999, Caffé Artigiano now operates 16 locations across BC and Alberta, along with a thriving wholesale business.
Dean Kneider, President
Instant Recycling Perks
Instant Recycling Perks
Instant Recycling Perks
Fulmer & Company was a provider of start-up capital and remains a substantial equity holder.
Fulmer & Company was a provider of start-up capital and remains a substantial equity holder.
Fulmer & Company was a provider of start-up capital and remains a substantial equity holder.
A global provider of technology solutions for the recycling industry, Instant Recycling Perks’ proprietary payment redemption software allowing customers to simply drop off their bagged containers at local recycling locations and have a rebate credited to an online account. Funds can be redeemed directly, used for e-gift cards, or donated to charitable causes, adding up to benefits all around.
Foodee
Foodee
Foodee
Fulmer & Company was a strategic partner and provider of senior convertible debt to Foodee, prior to the recent acquisition by Sodexo.
Fulmer & Company is a provider of senior convertible note and strategic partner.
Fulmer & Company is a provider of senior convertible note and strategic partner.
Foodee is a Vancouver based corporate catering and meal delivery company founded in 2011. Corporate clients can easily order customizable meals from hundreds of delicious local eats on Foodee platform. The experience is seamless and painless. In addition to the wide variaty of cuisine options and easy-to-use platform, Foodee takes pride in providing smart packaging and contactless delivery. While serving over two million offices across North America, Foodee is committed to support local restaurants and build diverse, sustainable communities and workplaces.
Founder & CEO, Ryan Spong
Buyatab
Buyatab
Fulmer & Company assembled the original angel investment round and led subsequent investment rounds.
A start-up that quickly became the second-largest e-gift card provider in the world, Buyatab's technology seamlessly integrates into retailers’ websites, allowing customers to buy and send gift cards with ease. Clients include Four Seasons Hotels, Whole Foods, Walmart, Tim Hortons and many other national and international brands. Buyatab was sold in 2018 in a transaction that resulted in a more than 1200% return on invested capital for shareholders.
Matias Marquez, Founder & CEO
Matias Marquez, Founder & CEO
Imperial Global Transportation
Imperial Global Transportation
Imperial Global Transportation
Previously a subsidiary of Fulmer & Company in partnership with General Manager, Kian Malekzad.
Previously a subsidiary of Fulmer & Company in partnership with General Manager, Kian Malekzad.
A provider of luxury private transportation services in Alberta and BC, Imperial was founded by Kian Malekzad in 2008 as Imperial Vancouver Car Service Ltd. Acquired by Fulmer & Company in 2011, Imperial merged with Alpine 4x4 Charter Ltd., and later acquired Alura Limousine and Highland VIP Group, quickly becoming Western Canada’s largest transportation fleet. In 2017, Imperial Global was sold to Star Limousine Service in a transaction that was substantially accretive to shareholders.
Kian Malekzad, GM
Kian Malekzad, GM
Mr. Mikes
Mr. Mikes
Previously a wholly owned subsidiary of Fulmer & Company.
Founded in 1960, Mr. Mikes Steakhouse became a household name in Western Canada, growing to over 100 restaurants by 1970. As times changed, the chain stumbled and locations closed rapidly. Recognizing the potential of the business, Fulmer & Company took ownership in 2005, when there were only four locations left. Mr. Mikes was rebranded to offer both an upscale lounge and casual dining experience, growing the business to 21 locations and over $60 million in annual sales. The company was sold to Yellow Point Equity Partners in two transactions in 2009 and 2010, which were substantially accretive to shareholders.
Pizza Hut - Southern Alberta
Pizza Hut (Southern Alberta)
Pizza Hut -Southern Alberta
Previously a wholly owned subsidiary of Fulmer & Company.
Previously a wholly owned subsidiary of Fulmer & Company.
Fulmer & Company purchased their first Pizza Hut operation in 2005, and within four years it developed one of Canada’s largest Pizza Hut franchise operations, ultimately growing the business to 27 locations across Calgary, Southern Alberta and suburban Edmonton. In 2009, the business was sold to Redberry Group in a transaction that was substantially accretive to the shareholder.
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