Alex Tong
Co-Founder and General Partner, Seguin Ventures
Toronto, Ontario
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$1.00Max Investment:
$500,000.00Target Investment:
$350,000.00
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Work Experience
2024
Co-Founder and General Partner
2024
Seed investors in AI-Native Software companies that will replace SaaS and Services. Enterprise AI, Accounting AI and Professional Services AI. - Kick.co (Led by General Catalyst, OpenAI) - Maneva.ai (Led by Bling Capital & Freestyle) - TeamOhana.com (Led by Lerer Hippeau) - Topicflow (Led by Founders' Co-Op) - Umamii (Led by Seguin Ventures) - Stealth - Stealth - Stealth
2024
Seed Investor
2024
Accounting software that does the work for you. Seguin Ventures Fund I.
2019
Angel Investor
2019
- Verafin (https://Verafin.com) - acquired by Nasdaq - Spare Labs (https://sparelabs.com/) - Series A led by Inovia. Series B led by Inovia Growth. - L1 Advisors (https://l1advisors.com/) - Pre Seed with Van Eck.
2016 - 2023
Venture Partner
2016 - 2023
Early stage FinTech and enterprise software investors. Firm was founded via a GP-led buyout of the RBC Venture Partners fintech and enterprise software portfolio. Firm's early investments included Verafin (sold to Nasdaq $2.75B), Adaptive Insights (sold to Workday $1.6B), BigID ($1.3b Advent International), Procurify (Series C, Ten Coves Capital) Cinchy (Series B Forgepoint Capital), Varicent (sold to IBM). First investment team hire in 2016 and rapidly promoted over 7-year tenure, investing across 3 funds (including 1 fully exited SPV). Board member or observer to many of the firm's portfolio companies.
2021 - 2023
Board Member and Series A Investor
2021 - 2023
Strike Graph helps companies build a simple, reliable and effective compliance program so that they can get their security certifications quickly and focus on revenue and sales. https://www.strikegraph.com/
2021 - 2023
Board Observer
2021 - 2023
Via acquisition of PostBeyond
2021 - 2023
Seed Investor & Board Observer
2021 - 2023
Nue is an easy-to-manage, omni-channel RevOps platform designed to meet the needs of the modern business to innovate and manage their customer revenue lifecycles end-to-end. With Nue, RevOps teams can accelerate sales with innovative pricing models and streamlined processes (direct and self-service commerce) so that companies can easily manage quotes to orders to renewals to billing – all the while delivering accurate analytics to Finance. Learn more at nue.io.
2020 - 2023
Series A Investor & Board Observer
2020 - 2023
A Data Collaboration company, Cinchy separates data from the applications that create it. Our Autonomous Data Fabric uses a network-based design that eliminates the ongoing integration work that otherwise consumes 50% of your IT budget. When creating new solutions, teams leverage what’s already on the fabric and add only what they need. Cinchy is used by some of the world's largest financial institutions and enterprises. Sourced and co-led investment internally.
2020 - 2023
Series A Investor & Board Observer
2020 - 2023
Jirav is financial planning and analysis in the cloud that helps accounting and finance teams budget and forecast without the need for stale, error prone spreadsheets. Designed to be completely customizable, Jirav lets you track, forecast, and share the data that matters most to your business.
2019 - 2023
Series B Investor & Board Observer
2019 - 2023
Procurify is reinventing the way organizations spend. For organizations looking to make their spend process more manageable, Procurify is a software solution that offers convenience and accessibility. Achieve greater visibility into your company's spend, track purchases across your organization and report on your financial data with certainty. Managing company spending does not have to be overwhelming or complex. Procurify offers a smarter way to manage spending for hundreds of companies around the world. Sourced and co-led investment internally.