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Globalive
Globalive is a Toronto-based startup studio and investment platform that specializes in founding, scaling, and investing in ventures across various sectors including telecom, media, health, and finance.
Overview
What Globalive does
What Globalive is
Globalive is a Toronto-based startup studio and investment platform that specializes in founding, scaling, and investing in ventures across various sectors including telecom, media, health, and finance.
How it participates in the startup ecosystem
The current public profile supports funder and program host capabilities. Each capability below is shown separately so organization identity and role-specific information do not get conflated.
Operational profile
Organization status and context
Organization status describes the entity itself. Funding and program availability appear within the relevant capability profile.
- Operational status
- Active
- Organization type
- Venture Studio
- Founded
- Founded in 1998
- Approximate age
- About 28 years
- Structured capabilities
- Funder · Program host
- Last reviewed
- April 2, 2026
What Venture studio means
A venture studio is an organization that systematically creates new startups by generating or sourcing ideas, validating them, building early products, recruiting founders or operators, providing shared resources, and retaining meaningful equity in the companies it helps create.
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Capability profile
Globalive as a funder
Investment thesis
Globalive partners with and invests in entrepreneurs committed to innovation, focusing on early-stage companies in regulated or overlooked sectors.
Focus narrative
Globalive invests in early-stage companies where it has category expertise and respects the founders. The organization emphasizes long-term partnerships and provides operational support alongside capital. It focuses on sectors that require patience and strategic depth, particularly in regulated or overlooked spaces.
Value beyond capital
Globalive invests in the infrastructure surrounding innovation, supporting startup acceleration, founder development, and innovation infrastructure. It has contributed to various initiatives, including the Shamba Foundation, which focuses on community service and support for underserved communities.
Focus and fit
- Stages
- Pre-seed · Seed · Seed+ · Series A · Series B
- Sectors
- Telecom · Media · Healthcare · Fintech · AI · Space Tech · Gaming · Marketing · SaaS
- Regions
- North America
Availability
- Currently deploying
- Yes
Portfolio and track record
- Recorded portfolio count
- 12
- Recorded notable exits
- Nuuvera, TouchBistro, and Tokyo Smoke
Portfolio context
Notable portfolio companies include Kepler, a space technology company; Medal, a social gaming tool; 7shifts, a restaurant tech platform with a partial exit; StackAdapt, a marketing technology platform with a partial exit; WellnessLiving, a wellness SaaS with a partial exit; Xanadu, a quantum computing company; BlueJ, an AI-powered tax research platform; Espresso Capital, a venture lender; Nuuvera, a cannabis company with a full exit; NYDIG, a cryptocurrency and finance company; TouchBistro, a restaurant tech company with a full exit; Tokyo Smoke, a cannabis company with a full exit; and Skywatch, a geospatial data platform.
Capability profile
Globalive as a program host
Program thesis
Globalive partners with and invests in entrepreneurs committed to innovation, focusing on building and scaling companies across various sectors.
Focus narrative
Globalive invests in early-stage companies where it has category expertise and respects the founders. The organization emphasizes long-term partnerships and provides operational support alongside capital. It focuses on sectors that require patience and strategic depth, particularly in regulated or overlooked spaces.
Value and support
Globalive provides operational support, capital investment, and long-term partnerships to early-stage companies, focusing on sectors that require strategic depth.
Availability
- Application state
- Not published
Focus and fit
- Stages
- Pre-seed · Seed
- Regions
- CanadaNorth America
Alumni and track record
Alumni context
Notable portfolio companies include Kepler, a space technology company; Medal, a social gaming tool; 7shifts, a restaurant tech platform; StackAdapt, a marketing technology platform; WellnessLiving, a wellness SaaS; Xanadu, a quantum computing company; BlueJ, an AI-powered tax research platform; Espresso Capital, a venture lender; Nuuvera, a cannabis company; NYDIG, a cryptocurrency and finance company; TouchBistro, a restaurant tech company; Tokyo Smoke, a cannabis company; and Skywatch, a geospatial data platform.
Common questions
What to know about Globalive
Upseed classifies Globalive under the Venture Studio organization type. Its current public profile includes funder and program host capabilities.
Source and update disclosure
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Source basis
Public organization and program material, official websites, and structured Upseed records.
Last reviewed
April 2, 2026
Known limits
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