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Simple Ventures
Simple Ventures is a Canadian venture builder established in 2024, focusing on creating and scaling new businesses from the ground up. It aims to address the decline in entrepreneurship in Canada by pairing experienced leaders with promising ideas.
Overview
What Simple Ventures does
What Simple Ventures is
Simple Ventures is a Canadian venture builder established in 2024, focusing on creating and scaling new businesses from the ground up. It aims to address the decline in entrepreneurship in Canada by pairing experienced leaders with promising ideas.
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 2024
- Approximate age
- About 2 years
- Structured capabilities
- Funder · Program host
- Last reviewed
- April 8, 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
Simple Ventures as a funder
Investment thesis
Simple Ventures focuses on building, funding, and scaling early-stage companies in Canada, aiming for sustainable and profitable business growth.
Focus narrative
Simple Ventures invests in early-stage companies that demonstrate a clear path to profitability. The organization emphasizes capital efficiency, real ownership for operators, and sustainable success, combining elements of search funds, private equity, venture capital, and bootstrapping.
Value beyond capital
Simple Ventures provides a unique approach to business development that combines various funding strategies, ensuring capital efficiency and real ownership for operators, ultimately aiming for life-changing exits within five years.
Focus and fit
- Stages
- Pre-seed · Seed · Seed+ · Series A
- Regions
- CanadaNorth America
Availability
- Currently deploying
- Yes
Portfolio and track record
- Recorded portfolio count
- 4
Portfolio context
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Capability profile
Simple Ventures as a program host
Program thesis
Simple Ventures is focused on building, funding, and scaling new ventures in Canada, aiming to create a new model for business development that supports sustainable and profitable growth.
Focus narrative
Simple Ventures invests in early-stage companies that show a clear path to profitability. Their approach emphasizes capital efficiency, real ownership for operators, and sustainable success, combining elements of search funds, private equity, venture capital, and bootstrapping to achieve life-changing exits within five years.
Value and support
Simple Ventures offers a unique approach to venture building that includes funding, mentorship, and a focus on sustainable business practices. They aim to create a supportive environment for operators to thrive and achieve profitable growth.
Availability
- Application state
- Not published
Focus and fit
- Stages
- Pre-seed · Seed
- Regions
- CanadaNorth America
Alumni and track record
Alumni context
Alma Care: A holistic postpartum care platform connecting families with certified professionals for at-home and retreat-based care. Founded in 2023. Website Harvest: An AI-powered platform that helps businesses recover overdue invoices while maintaining customer relationships. Founded in 2025. Website Kindly: A service assisting families with aging and caregiving decisions, providing guidance for complex care needs. Founded in 2025. Website Zero Collective: A membership club offering access to designer bags for rent with exclusive pricing for members. Founded in 2024. Website
Common questions
What to know about Simple Ventures
Upseed classifies Simple Ventures 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 8, 2026
Known limits
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