The Group Ventures

Managing Partner Sion Balass and Chairman Anatol von Hahn lead the investment process. The partnership also includes Anthony Toldo, whose family office, Toldo Group, is a named business partner. The firm's website lists Partners Michael O'Sullivan, Kevin O'Brien, and Venture Partner Chris Hodgson, a former Google Canada executive, as part of the broader investment and advisory team.

The firm practices what it calls longitudinal due diligence — spending extended periods building relationships with founders before committing capital. Geographic concentration in Canada and Israel, combined with mentor roles at Creative Destruction Lab and von Hahn's membership in Diagram's investor network, creates a sourcing funnel that favors technical B2B founders ahead of formal fundraises.

It operates as a venture firm structured through discretionary fund vehicles — Fund I and Fund II — rather than a single-family office. The Toldo family and Toldo Group are business partners, not the sole capital source, but the partnership dynamic with a named family enterprise suggests blended GP and family-affiliated capital.

Publicly available information indicates a direct, company-level investment model. The firm describes entering 'at the post seed stage' and focuses on hands-on operational engagement, consistent with direct company investing rather than a fund-of-funds or LP-only approach.

Post-seed — specifically when a company has validated its technology and is beginning early commercialisation. The firm positions itself immediately after the R&D phase, aiming to bridge the operational gap before a full growth-stage round.

The firm's public materials state a deliberate focus on B2B technology, implying an avoidance of consumer, hardware-only, and capital-intensive industrial businesses outside the B2B software mandate. No explicit sector exclusions are listed.

The firm's operator-led, value-driven thesis suggests selective co-investment when syndicate partners bring complementary operational capability. Mentor relationships at Creative Destruction Lab and Diagram, and the presence of Venture Partner Chris Hodgson, indicate a collaborative network rather than an exclusively proprietary model, though the specifics of any co-investment policy are not publicly disclosed.