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Whether it’s turning a great idea into an even greater business, or adding rocket fuel to your already growing business, we are here to back you up.

 Check out some of the great companies we get to work with:

Apollo Neuroscience builds technology and creates tools to help you adapt to stress by harnessing the power of the nervous system and improving your body’s resilience to stress.


Midori-Bio is a Toronto based company providing the world’s producers of plastics and synthetic textiles with an organic additive that greatly reduces the biodegradation timeline of these products once they are discarded in active landfills.

Midori’s sustainable additive reduces plastics in landfills from 100’s of years to under ten years. Some of the world’s top consumer brands have decided to integrate Midori’s additive in their plastics insuring those non-recycled plastics and synthetics have an end-of-life plan when discarded in landfills.


GravyStack is on a mission to strengthen families through financial independence. GravyStack is the first ever platform that combines engaging gamification with a real bank account where kids game, learn, and earn financial literacy. Kids get access to over 100 real-life challenges and games on their way to financial independence. Parents get a seamless roadmap to teach their kids about saving, earning, spending, sharing, investing, and other core financial principals. GravyStack has brought together over 60 of the world's best leaders, wealth managers, authors, investors and gamification specialists to create GravyStack to solve the massive financial literacy problem in our world.


Garten is a tech platform company pioneering a modern approach to wellbeing in the workplace via healthy nutrition, yoga, meditation, diversity & inclusion, mental health classes, and more. The company is a top YCominator company servicing Fortune 500 and growing enterprises globally. The company and founder have been recognized with multiple awards such as top 2022 entrepreneur, best remote friendly workplace, and best B2B e-commerce company.


Curv is a leading full-stack digital clinic. Like any clinic, Curv connects patients (demand) and providers (supply). On the demand-side Curv offers employers access to an extensive network of health providers allowing more accessible, cost effective ways to provide services to the people who need them, when they need them. On the supply-side, Curv's platform empowers health providers to launch and operate their own digital practice with some of the most innovative digital tools available at a fraction of the cost. Not only does Curv provide the backstage that helps you build your business, we also help find you clients and support you every step of the way.


GoodCap is a pharmaceutical company developing low-dose, sub-hallucinogenic psilocybin-based therapies to help the over 300 million people worldwide suffering from depression. By combining low-dose psilocybin with synergistic potentiator molecules, GoodCap is able to amplify anti-inflammatory properties. This unique approach targets low-grade inflammation in the gut, which can have a direct impact on depressive symptoms.


Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Pulp Culture was founded in 2020 by entrepreneurs Brendan Brazier and Mark McTavish who saw an opportunity to manufacture and market a functional fermented beverage for consumers who live in the constant pursuit of "better".

Today Pulp Culture sells its function centric line of fermented juices via wholesale and direct to consumer channels across the US and Canada, where this highly innovative brand is redefining the consumer relationship with beverages containing alcohol.


Wilde Chips are the world's first protein chip crafted from 100% all-natural chicken breast. Thin and crispy like a potato chip, but high in protein and low in carbs, each bag is crafted from real ingredients, including chicken breast, egg whites and bone broth. At 10g of protein per serving, you'll feel good about what you're eating while enjoying every crunchy bite with crave-worthy flavours such as Sea Salt & Vinegar, Buffalo and Chicken & Waffle. Look for Wilde chips online, amazon and on the shelf at leading retailers across the US.


Located at the terminus of the iconic US Route 101 in sunny Los Angeles, California, 101 Cider House was founded in 2015 by Mark McTavish. As a producer of "natural cider", 101 Cider House is a climate positive brand that caters to craft beverage enthusiasts who wish to imbibe in a conscious and intentional manner.

With a loyal fan base supporting the brand, 101 Cider House is on a mission to reforest the planet. Their products are now sold via wholesale and direct to consumer channels across the US and Canada, planting a tree with every 4-pack purchased.


Carbon6 is building a community to support eCommerce sellers, removing the barriers to selling online. Developed by the brightest minds in the Amazon seller ecosystem, Carbon6’s software and educational programs help entrepreneurs succeed at every stage in the journey. At Carbon6 we believe that entrepreneurs should do what they love. We do the rest.


UpBeing's mission is to use behavioural data to measure emotion and improve the human experience, individually and collectively. UpBeing combines passive behavioural data streams like e-calendar, Spotify, wearables, browser history and spending with short, research-grounded emotional check-ins to provide users unprecedented insight into the hidden relationships between their behaviours and feelings. Like Captcha, the UpBeing application is crowdsourcing the training of the first behaviour to emotion ML classification engine. At scale, this proprietary dataset and ML engine will redefine the $19B Emotion Detection and Recognition Industry. At its core, UpBeing believes we need technology to empower us to make life choices that benefit our human experience, not algorithmically addict us to our devices.


Supersapiens is a performance brand empowering athletes to track and manage their energy status in real time so they can get quantifiably better results. Leveraging the proven science of continuous glucose monitors with a robust data science platform, Supersapiens helps athletes identify their unique fuelling needs helping them optimize their training and recovery.


Restore Hyper Wellness is the award-winning creator of an innovative new category of care—Hyper Wellness®. Restore delivers expert guidance and an extensive array of cutting-edge health modalities, such as IV drips, NAD+, mild hyperbaric oxygen therapy and cryotherapy, integrated under one roof. These modalities help you feel your best, so you can do more of what you love. With a fast-growing national retail footprint, Restore makes proactive health more accessible than ever.


PickleJar is an emerging leader in unified live entertainment technology, changing the way money is made and moved in the entertainment industry in a “one-stop” transaction platform! With every ticket or t-shirt sold, and with every dollar sent for a song requests, gig payment or project funded on PickleJar, the Artist owns their fans - and keeps 100% of what they make. PickleJar’s Venue Managed Services platform aggregates the functions of the Fan Experience, turning patrons and performances into profit centers, and providing deep insights to fan behaviors, trending artists, and brand activation.


AssistIQ is a software company that leverages data and AI to help hospitals save millions while fighting climate change by reducing their medical supply waste. Developed by a team of serial entrepreneurs and healthcare leaders, AssistIQ’s platform helps hospitals eliminate manual processes and improve their value of care. At AssistIQ, we believe that healthcare leaders should be empowered with modern technology and accurate data to optimize their decisions.


TheProgram.ai is on a mission to level the playing field in sports by providing youth with affordable access to engage in sport regardless of their economics, location or skill level. We provide youth sports organizations with an out-of-the-box, custom branded mobile app for delivering sports and fitness content to youth in a fun and interactive manner. This allows these organizations to create the next generation of athletes and fans, because it's better when everyone plays!


Synex Medical is building the next-generation of health monitoring technology to make predictive health a reality. Using new techniques in miniaturized magnetic resonance, they’re able to non-invasively and accurately measure critical blood-metabolites like glucose, lactate and cholesterol. Synex’s technology introduces the possibility of an entirely new category of applications to enable everyone to understand their bodies in real-time.

Raising money and growing your business can lead you through some rough waters.

The Kale Fund prides itself on being founder friendly with a long-term mindset and a focus on impact.

From start ups to going public, our decades of entrepreneurial and operational experience along with our extensive network of connections can help you accelerate the growth and value of your company.

Are you ready to raise money for a great idea or an existing business? Give us a shout, we would love to chat.