Helping Businesses Grow

From business concept development and validation, to seed capital and strategic guidance, Seventh Horizon is dedicated to helping businesses grow. To date, Seventh Horizon has invested in and advised ventures which have created over $400MM in shareholder value.

Why Work With Seventh Horizon?

Services

Consulting and advisory services:
  • Business plan development and vetting
  • Canadian market assessment and entry planning
  • Strategic guidance
  • Customer acquisition and negotiations support
  • Investment and acquisition due diligence
  • Mentorship

Growth Capital

Direct Investment

Seventh Horizon is an active seed and growth investor, providing promising entities crucial funding, mentorship, and strategic guidance.

Fundraising Support

Seventh Horizon can assist in raising capital by crafting a compelling business plan, refining pitch presentations, identifying suitable investors through their network, and advising on strategic approaches to attract funding.

Our Principal

Seventh Horizon is led by Michael Vanderkaden, a Fintech and start-up executive.  An entrepreneurial and collaborative Fintech executive, Michael’s roles have included acting as Chief Revenue Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Head of Corporate Development & Partnerships and as a Management Consultant.

Michael holds an MBA from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, where he graduated on the Dean’s List, and an honours degree in Mathematics from the University of Waterloo.  He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

Track Record

Seventh Horizon has been an investor in and advisor to:
Savvyy.AI, a SaaS start-up building next gen, machine learning enabled digital lending infrastructure (Acquired in 2023)
Pinch Financial, a SaaS start-up redefining the consumer mortgage approval process (Acquired in 2021)
Avesdo, whose SaaS solution enables developers to optimize new residential construction project sales
LifeSpeak, Canada’s leading digital health and wellness company (IPO’d on TSX in 2021)
AVS Systems, a leading financial services Regtech SaaS company (Acquired in 2017)
Spearhead Brewing Company, an award-winning craft brewery (Acquired in 2023)
Commercial real estate project from land assembly (Acquired in 2023)

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