Russell Thomas

B.E.S.T. Investment Counsel Ltd (B.E.S.T. Investment) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 1996 by John Richardson. The firm is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.

B.E.S.T. Investment Counsel Ltd. (Investment Management) (BEST-IM) is the investment management division of B.E.S.T. Investment Counsel Ltd., an independent, Canadian venture firm headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. BEST-IM manages the assets of individual and institutional investors.

Plazacorp Ventures is an independent venture capital firm founded in 2008. The firm is headquartered in Ontario, Canada.

Access Ventures, Inc (Access Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Bryce Butler. The firm is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.

StackAdapt, Inc. operates a native advertising platform for publishers. Its platform identifies and collects information based on the behavior and preferences of the users that are grouped into categories, and display native advertisements to the users in those categories. The firm offers trading desks and media buyers a programmatic content distribution and content amplification through in-feed native advertisments. The company was founded by Ildar Shar, Vitaly Pecherskiy and Yang Han in 2013 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund seeks investment opportunities in technology companies located in Canada, primarily in Ontario. The fund targets companies operating in the fields of advanced manufacturing, IT, communications, clean-tech and life sciences. It provides financing for seed and early stage capital requirements with an investment size ranging up to $0.5 million.

SweetIQ Analytics Corp. engages in the provision of location-based marketing and analytics platform services. Its products include listing management, store locator software and mirosites, review management, and data analytics. The company was founded by Ravdeep Sawhney, Michael Mire, and Mohannad El-Barachi in 2010 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.