Company Description
With over a hundred years and five generations of experience and a robust global network, Holt is powering innovative tech products, world-class companies, and entrepreneurs, helping shape the future of their businesses and growth.\n\nInvestment HighlightsCanada’s most active Global fintech seed fund.\n\nWe’ve invested in companies all over the world with the highest concentration coming from North America.\n\n\nAbout UsOver 75% of our investments have diversity at the founder or executive level.This is because we believe that the foundation of a successful business is built with unique perspectives, ideas, and experiences. For this reason, we believe in creating equal opportunities for people from all walks of life regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, marital status, race, religion, or sexuality. This is how our industry moves forward, together.The fund and company in summary:$700M combined value39 companies in 10 countriesWe invest in top 1% of deals reviewed100+ deals facilitated post investment$120M raised across 40 institutional investors10K+ fintechs tracked & 1M+ data points\n\n\nThe Holt Legacy“Our family has a history of investing, growing, supporting, and building financial companies for the past five generations.”Financial services and entrepreneurship runs in the Holt family DNA, beginning with Sir Herbert Holt, who emigrated from Ireland to Canada in 1873 at 18 years old with only $100 to name. Holt went on to control assets 10x larger than the money in circulation in Canada and played a pivotal role in the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Holt later helped pioneer Quebec’s energy industry, founding the Montreal Light, Heat & Power Company which became Hydro-Quebec. Appointed to the board of both Montreal Gas and Royal Electric, he eventually merged those companies in 1901 to become Montreal Light Heat and Power Corporation (MLHPC), now known as Hydro-Quebec. Over his 23 years, MLHPC earnings soared 18x (ie. $450 million in today’s money), net assets of 9x (ie. $2.3 billion in today’s money), and reduced the price of electricity by a factor of 10.While overseeing the activities of MLHPC, he was also President of RBC from 1908 to 1934, and remained on the board until 1941. During his tenure, he grew the banks assets 15x (ie. $11.3 billion in today’s money).During Sir Herbert Holt’s 68 years in Canada, he became director of 300 companies, with assets valued around $3B, and was knighted by King George V. On his death, the Montreal Gazette described Holt as \