GetFresh Ventures is an operating partner for founder- and owner-led companies. We work inside the business, so it grows faster, earns more and is ready for capital and a strong exit.
Could you step away from your business for two weeks right now?
You may have built a job you can't leave. Your salary depends on the company, and a sale wouldn't pay enough to stop. So you keep running it.
On the desk: the big decision, the key customer, the hard problem, pricing, the renewal, who to hire, payroll, the quote, a complaint, the forecast, the bank, the big order, a supplier, the contract, the new hire, a refund, the budget, the demo, cash flow, a late invoice, the launch, the board, an escalation, sign-off, the website, the proposal, a resignation, the lease, the audit, the roadmap, a discount, the pitch, the insurance, onboarding, the vendor, a bad review, the follow-up, the deck, overtime, the schedule, a partner, the numbers, tax, a dispute, the ad spend, the meeting, the fix, the call back, the sales target, the raise, the password, the printer.
A business only moves as fast as its slowest link, and in a lot of companies that's the founder. Buyers look at whether growth and earnings depend on one person.
how much one person can carry
Getting there is a climb.
We're an award-winning, CMC-led team. The operator who leads it has been building Canadian startups since the early '90s, before the dotcom boom.
Our lead operator, before GetFresh Ventures
WebCT, the university e-learning pioneer.
From startup to a $180M sale to Blackboard.
Our lead operator, before GetFresh Ventures
Vision Critical, the customer insight software company.
From single-digit millions to over $100M in revenue.
Our lead operator, before GetFresh Ventures
Hootsuite, the social media management platform.
Running operations as it passed $100M.
GetFresh Ventures, since 2017
GetFresh Ventures works inside founder- and owner-led companies so they grow faster and earn more. We also rebuilt BC Tech's HyperGrowth Accelerator.
Companies bring us the question they're stuck on. Sometimes so do the people who back them.
Pipeline exists. Why does revenue still take so long?
If revenue doubled, what would break first?
Which market is worth going after first?
Market, pricing, sales, margins, hiring, AI. Whatever it is, we work through it with you.
What one company brings us: the pipeline, the market, the sales team, the forecast, margins, pricing, hiring, AI.
Most founders build a pitch deck, go to VCs, then wonder why they can't raise. We get the company investable first, so you're ready when you choose to raise.
We get you ready, sharpen the plan and the story, and work alongside you through the process. You lead the raise.
the right capital for the right purpose
Across software, health, travel and the trades, plus consumer brands.
Jane App was in the first HyperGrowth cohort.
Each logo here is a company we've worked with.
It starts by finding what's holding it back.
We agentify the whole engine, from the software development lifecycle to go-to-market and operations. Your people keep the decisions.
One platform, built around how a company grows. Each service does one job.
GetFresh Ventures. The firm behind all four. We stay alongside the companies we build with, to scale what works. See the portfolio
Our portfolio is the founder- and owner-led companies we've built with, as advisors and operators.
TravelTech · From 2021
What they were stuck on: How do you run travel bookings across many sites, stay profitable and keep revenue growing in a competitive market?
Result: TravelAI built a $30M+ revenue travel platform across hundreds of sites.
Read the TravelAI story
Construction & energy staffing
Challenge: The founder did all the selling, with no sales team and nothing written down.
Result: We wrote down how the company sells. In 2024, revenue was about six times the year before.
Read the ablemkr storyFirst we show you your own engine: how you get customers, how you make money, what your margin is. Then we take it to twice the revenue. Where's that going to come from, and what's going to break? We put a number on fixing it. Usually it's a process, a role or a decision that only you can make.
We build what does that work, with your team, in focused sprints. Where AI helps, we put agents on the work that waits on you and a few key people, one workflow at a time. Your people still make the decisions.
A raise, a bigger market, a strong exit, or a company that runs without you.
Find the constraint first. A factory that can build 40 doors and two engines ships two cars a day.
Every business has an engine: how you get customers, how you get them to spend more and keep spending, and the operations underneath. Push it to twice the size and you can see where it breaks.
We get into the model, the team and the numbers with you every week. From go-to-market to the P&L, if it touches growth, we work on it.
Your business works, and it depends on you. We help it grow, adopt AI and run with less of you in the middle, so it's worth more.
Talk about your companyGrowth has stalled, or a raise is coming. We build the engine and the numbers investors will ask about.
Talk about getting ready to raiseYou back companies that could be worth far more if someone fixed how they run. We do that work alongside the founders you back.
Talk about a company you backYou own companies that could be worth far more if they ran better. We work inside them with their founders and leadership teams, to grow them, raise margins and get them ready for a strong exit.
Talk about a company you ownGrowth by Design
When the business still relies on you, growth waits on you. See where the work gets stuck
GetFresh Ventures is an operating partner for founder- and owner-led companies, founded in 2017. We help them build companies that are worth more and depend less on them, through growth, AI and capital readiness. Every engagement runs on Growth by Design.
Mainly through our work. Some of it is paid in equity, and we've also invested directly. We don't run a fund.
Four services, each doing one job: Growth by Design, GetReady.vc, GetScale and hypergrowth.ca. GetFresh Ventures stays alongside the companies we build with to scale what works.
A Venture Catalyst is the partner whose presence makes the right things happen inside a company. We work inside the business, so it grows faster, earns more and is ready for capital and a strong exit. A VC's question is where do I deploy capital? Ours is where is the revenue stuck?
Predictable growth, clean numbers, and a business that doesn't depend on its owner. As we put it in our essays: "Your EBITDA defines your value. Your growth rate defines your multiple."
Our method. It maps a business, models it at twice its volume, finds the first constraint, and sizes the gain from fixing it.
Yes, inside the Growth practice. We build AI agents and automated workflows into sales, marketing and operations, so revenue can grow without matching headcount.
Field notes. Essays and cheatsheets on growth, capital and AI, from the operator who leads GetFresh Ventures.
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