Ben Constanty

Founder

2023 - Current

Stakk Ventures is a venture partnership based in Toronto. We specialize in building and investing in innovative B2B companies. Our mission is to equip founders with the resources, expertise, and connections they need to grow their startups. Our portfolio brings together our own incubations, accelerator alumni, and strategic investments. We’ve built an extensive network of 450+ corporate clients, including Roche, Rolls-Royce, Accor Group, Dior, and more. The businesses we oversee have generated $100+ million in cumulative revenue.

Founder, MD

2021

The Blox is a startup accelerator that has backed and helped launch 25+ startups. Our portfolio companies have collectively raised over $40 million in pre-seed and seed funding, averaging around $1.5M per startup, from investors like Techstars, Animoca Brands, Ubisoft, and Tim Draper. We now have a network of 100+ mentors from leading companies such as Google, Ledger, Chainlink, Deloitte, and more.

Advisor

2022

Co-founder of Sourcing Force, CMO

2018 - 2022

We spun up Sourcing Force as part of Buy Made Easy with a team of five. I built the GTM foundations that helped scale the company to $17M ARR. Sourcing Force is a SaaS supplier spend management platform that has processed over $500M in corporate spend.

Co-Founder & COO

2022

Augmented Nation represents the voice of innovative companies in the metaverse, AI, and web3 with 100+ members from Ledger, Mc Kinsey, RTFKT, The Sandbox, Disneyland, and other prominent players.

Co-Founder (Acquired)

2021 - 2022

Vortex is an open source automated market maker (AMM) built on the Tezos blockchain and backed by the Tezos Foundation. The protocol reached $100M in trading volume, with over 3,000 active traders. The platform was acquired by startup studio Pyratz Labs.

Advisor

2020 - 2022

Co-Founder

2020 - 2021

Smartlink raised $3M to build a suite of non-custodial escrow payment modules for goods and services. The project collaborates with the French research center, CEA, for its research and development efforts, and is supported by the Tezos Foundation.

Co-Founder, CMO

2020 - 2021

Bootstrapped from $0 to $7M in less than a year. BME Care is a B2B PPE distributor in Europe. Our clients include Dior, Vinci, Thales, Nokia, Vinci, Vivendi, Saint Gobin, Endemol, Matmut, and more. Wound down operations as demand for PPE dropped post-pandemic.

Co-Founder, CEO (Exited to co-founder)

2015 - 2018

Wetel specializes in technology financing and implementation. Companies can preserve liquidity, lower operational costs, and streamline IT procurement processes through our services. Secured partnerships with BNP Paribas for deal financing alongside Google, Cisco, and European cloud leader OVH for solution deployment. The company grew to 30 people by the time I left.

Reboot

2013 - 2014

Lived in Southeast Asia in 2013/2014. Spent a year between Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Nepal, and Singapore. Started my first business out there. A cashmere clothing brand. Visited factories in Kathmandu, signed a deal with one, failed pretty quickly, but learned a ton.

Telecommunications Consultant

2011 - 2013

Founded in 1991, Global Concept specializes in telecommunications infrastructures and financing solutions for enterprises. The group generated €95 million in revenue and employs 700 people across Europe.