Antoine Nivard

Co-founder & General Partner
2021 - 2025
Blank is an early-stage venture capital firm investing its first fund in financial, commerce, and enterprise technology startups. Funds involvement: Fund I ($65m), Select Funds III to VII ($7m) Investments sourced/led: Strada (Seed), Uprise (Seed), Seeds Investors (Seed), Combo (Seed), 1Password (Series C), Magical (Series A) Investments supported: Novella (Seed), Melrose (Seed), Koya AI (Seed), Subroutine (Seed), Playbook (Series A), Neo Financial (Series C), Spotnana (Series B)

2021 - 2022

2018 - 2021

2018 - 2021

2013 - 2021

Principal
2018 - 2021
Inovia is Canada’s largest and most active early-stage turned multi-stage venture capital firm investing its fourth fund in enterprise, digital health, financial, commerce, security, travel, hospitality technology startups. Funds involvement: Fund II ($110m), Fund III ($130m), Fund IV ($265m), Select Investments ($65m) Investments sourced/led: Momentum (Seed), Colabra (Seed), Calico (Seed), Fey (Seed), Autocode (Seed, acquired by OpenAI), Commit (Seed), Mercantile (Seed), ProteinQure (Seed), Cocoon (Seed, acquired by Substack), Vital Biosciences (Seed), Future Family (Series A), Scanwell Health (Seed, acquired by BD), Italic (Seed), BenchSci (Series A), DarwinAI (Seed, acquired by Apple), Camino (Seed, acquired by Clariti), Aon3D (Seed), Allay (Seed), Poka (Seed, acquired by IFS) Investments supported: Neo Financial (Seed), Routehappy (Series A, acquired by APTCO), Sonder (Series C), Forward Health (Series C), Lightspeed Commerce (Series A), PEX Card (Series B), Luxury Retreats (Series A, acquired by Airbnb), AppDirect (Seed)
Associate
2015 - 2018
Analyst
2013 - 2015

2018 - 2021

2015 - 2021

Co-founder, GP at Blank Ventures