Nishita Cummings

Fully Managed – Outsourced IT Services for SMBs and Senior Care Facilities

Founded in 2006, Fully Managed (formerly CareWorx) offers outsourced IT services to customers that lack resources to fully manage their IT internally. Many organizations have mission-critical IT needs, both internally (server upgrades, network monitoring & management, software/hardware maintenance) and customer-facing (helpdesk support, such as password & printing assitance), but lack resources due to the high cost of IT personnel and complexity of evolving IT demands. With Fully Managed’s IT services, organizations can supplement their existing IT staff, or outsource all of their IT needs, freeing up resources for more strategic operations.

Status: Active
Location: Ottawa, ON
Initial Investment: 2018
Industry: Business Process Automation
Website: https://www.fullymanaged.com
KPF Board Member: Leon Chen
Board Observer: Rob Shilton

Ideas United – Next Generation Content Creation Agency

Founded in 2001, Ideas United is a content creation agency that leverages a crowd-sourced filmmaker network to serve top-tier brands in both branded and original content. Ideas United helps solve the shortage of diverse video content that exists today by leveraging a mix of internal resources and crowd-sourced creators for brands, media companies, and non-profits. The company provides a unique value proposition to its customers by giving them access to content from a wide array of content creators due to their age and experience with help from a small in-house professional team.

Status: Active
Location: Atlanta, GA
Initial Investment: 2019
Industry: Media & Telecom
Website: https://ideasunited.com
KPF Board Member: Rob Shilton
Board Observer: Nishita Cummings

Rfxcel – Product Serialisation, Traceability and Compliance Software

Founded in 2003, rfxcel provides leading-edge software solutions to help companies manage every aspect of their supply chains, lower costs, and protect their products and brand reputations. Blue-chip organizations in the life sciences (pharmaceuticals and medical devices), food and beverage, worldwide government, and consumer goods industries trust rfxcel’s signature Traceability System (rTS) to power end-to-end supply chain solutions in key areas such as traceability, environmental monitoring, regulatory compliance, serialization, and visibility.

Status: Active
Location: Reno, NV
Initial Investment: 2017
Industry: Supply Chain & Logistics
Website: https://rfxcel.com
KPF Board Member: Leon Chen
Board Observer: Sabrina Chaudhury

Riviera Partners – Technology Enabled Executive Recruiting

Founded in 2002, Riviera Partners is a technology-enabled executive recruiting firm focused on placing senior technical talent. The company sells into technology and non-technology firms that are looking to hire key technical positions in product, engineering, UI/UX, and C-level executives. Having spent nearly two decades focused primarily on technical roles, the company has been able to build up an impressive database of over 600,000 technical talent across the country. The company builds a holistic candidate profile which is leveraged in conjunction with proprietary artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to curate candidate lists for recruiters’ searches based on clients’ explicit and implicit requirements. As a result, recruiters are able to complete searches in a more efficient and timely manner, while Riviera’s matching algorithims help produce better results for clients.

Status: Active
Location: San Francisco, CA
Initial Investment: 2019
Industry: Business Process Automation
Website: https://rivierapartners.com
KPF Board Member: Nishita Cummings
Board Observer: Rob Shilton

Think Research – Healthcare Clinical Software

Founded in 2006, Think Research offers software-enabled knowledge-based tools and clinical content for physicians and nurses at the point of care. Think provides digital evidence-based structured documents that incorporate the latest medical evidence into the patient treatment process (“Patient Order Sets”). Patient Order Sets are accessible at the point of care with Think’s platform, and allows clinicians to migrate from handwritten patient orders to an “intelligent document” platform, allowing for more accurate orders, reducing risk and increating patient safety.

Status: Active
Location: Toronto, ON
Initial Investment: 2018
Industry: Healthcare
Website: https://www.thinkresearch.com/ca/
Board Observer: Nishita Cummings

You.i – User Interface Software

Founded in 2008, You.i is a technology company whose patented engine allows a single universal codebase to run multi-screen video applications across media devices with the same user interface, such as mobile phones, tablets, game consoles, amert TVs, and set-top boxes. You.i targets blue chip media companies looking to launch over-the-top offerings competitive to Netflix.

Status: Exited
Location: Ottawa, ON
Initial Investment: 2015
Industry: Media & Telecom

Exit Press Release
KPF Board Member: Leon Chen
Board Observer: Andrew Deyoung

Zafin – Financial Technology Software

Founded in 2007. Zafin is a provider of pricing and product lifecycle management and predictive analytics software for financial institutions. The Company’s integrated suite of tools increases transparency and control for product managers and relationship managers at financial institutions, enabling for deeper and more profitable client relationships. Zafin’s target customers are global financial institutions, Tier-1 Banks, regional banks, community banks and other niche financial services providers.

Status: Active
Location: Vancouver, BC
Initial Investment: 2014
Industry: Financial Technology
Website: https://zafin.com
KPF Board Member: David Walsh
Board Observer: Nishita Cummings

Cryptzone – Enterprise Level Cybersecurity

Founded in 2003, Cryptzone is an enterprise-level cyber-security platform focused on identity access management and encryption. Cryptzone’s product portfolio enables an organization to security connect, collaborate, and comply with today’s digital workplace.

Status: Exited
Location: Waltham, MA
Initial Investment: 2015
Industry: Security & Compliance

Exit Press Release
KPF Board Member: David Walsh

Rage Frameworks – Business Process Automation and Big Data

Founded in 2000, Rage Frameworks is a SaaS platform, which provides business process automation and big data analytics solutions to enterprise clients. Rage Frameworks’ products and custom solutions are in use by some of the world’s leading financial institutions.

Status: Exited
Location: Westwood, MA
Initial Investment: 2013
Industry: Media & Telecom
Exit Press Release
KPF Board Member: Nishita Cummings

StarMount – Mobile POS and Back-End Software

Founded in 2006, Starmount provides mobile point-of-sale solutions for large brick and mortar retailers. Since inception, Starmount has been focused primarily on professional service engagements revolving around the implementation of Oracle POS solutions into brick and mortar retail stores. These engagements have reduced inefficiencies created by the use of disparate back office retail locations.

Status: Exited
Location: Austin, TX
Initial Investment: 2013
Industry: Supply Chain & Logistics
Exit Press Release
KPF Board Member: David Walsh
KPF Board Member: Nishita Cummings
Board Observer: Rob Shilton

You.i – User Interface Software

Founded in 2008, You.i is a technology company whose patented engine allows a single universal codebase to run multi-screen video applications across media devices with the same user interface, such as mobile phones, tablets, game consoles, amert TVs, and set-top boxes. You.i targets blue chip media companies looking to launch over-the-top offerings competitive to Netflix.

Status: Exited
Location: Ottawa, ON
Initial Investment: 2015
Industry: Media & Telecom

Exit Press Release
KPF Board Member: Leon Chen
Board Observer: Andrew Deyoung