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What does Relay Ventures invest in?
Relay Ventures invests most often at Seed and Venture (64% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Sports, Media and Digital.
Relay Ventures highlights
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5 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Seed and Venture: 64% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 11 rounds, median $5.3M
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3 exits from the portfolio
What they do
Relay Ventures is a venture capital firm that partners with founders from seed stage onward.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- SeedSeries A
- Sectors
- SportsMediaDigital
- Based in
- Toronto, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first97 appearances
- 2026
4 rounds
- Jun
- Apr
- Feb
- JanMaveSeed · CA$5.0MWith 1 other
- 2025
12 rounds
- Nov
- Oct
- Aug
- Aug
- Jul
- Jun
- May
- Apr
- Apr
- Apr
- Apr
- Mar
- 2024
8 rounds
- Oct
- Sept
- Jun
- May
- May
- Apr
- Jan
- Jan
- 2023
6 rounds
- Nov
- Aug
- Jun
- Feb
- Feb
- Jan
- 2022
5 rounds
- Nov
- Sept
- Aug
- Aug
- Feb
- 2021
1 round
- Mar
- 2020
1 round
- Feb
- 2019
4 rounds
- Nov
- Oct
- Sept
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration3 named
JLJohn Louis AlbrightShareholder and DirectoriForm ADV
KLKevin Lowell TalbotShareholder and DirectoriForm ADV
MJMary Jeannette WiltseShareholder and DirectoriForm ADV
We also hold 3 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$599Mgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
3+funds on filenumbered funds in its name
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Relay Ventures Canada II Inc.
- SEC number
- CRD 327759
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
9 of 36 we have independently watched raise
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Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed3 in all
WorldMateBought by Carlson Wagonlit TravelUndisclosedOct 2012
GlassBoxBought by Blue Ant MediaUndisclosedApr 2011
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.