Education · Toronto
Pathwise
Skill assessment for engineering teams that hire quickly.
- Stage
- Seed
- Founded
- Founded 2022
- First invested
- We invested 2022
- Team
- 22 people
- Board
- Board seat
- Total raised
- $3.5M
- Current stage
- Seed
- Team
- 22
- Founded
- 2022
What they build
The product, in plain terms
Pathwise builds skill assessment for engineering teams that hire quickly. The company started in Toronto in 2022. We backed it at pre-seed and have worked with the team through Seed.
- 01
Assessment and instruction built around what a learner can do, not what they clicked.
- 02
Reporting that gives an instructor a reason to open the product on a Monday.
- 03
Institutional contracts underneath the free tier, which is what makes the business durable.
Where it stands
Numbers the team watches
Reported by the company at its most recent board meeting. We publish what founders are comfortable publishing and nothing more.
- Learners served
- 946
- Course completion
- 91%
- Median session
- 7 days
Why we invested
The note from the first meeting
“We met Pathwise in 2022, back when institutions bought on annual cycles and churned quietly. Two other firms passed in the same month. We thought they were solving for the wrong risk, and we were happy to be alone on the cap table for a while.”
- Hired its founding engineering team out of the alumni network.
- Went from prototype to paid pilot in a single quarter.
- Signed its first design partner before the program ended.
Founders
Who is building it
Both founders were in the room the day we wrote the check, and both still run the company.
Arjun Kaur
Co-founder and CEO
Sold into this market for eight years before deciding the product was the problem.
Anton Moreau
Co-founder and CTO
Ran platform engineering at a company ten times this size.
Timeline
How it has gone
The version we would give another investor, including the years where nothing looked like progress.
- 2022
Founded
Arjun Kaur and Anton Moreau start Pathwise in Toronto around a single wedge: skill assessment for engineering teams that hire quickly.
- 2022
We invested
We wrote the pre-seed check and took a board seat. Sofia Ramos has worked with the team ever since.
- 2023
Paid customers
Contracts replaced pilots, and the company stopped selling a roadmap and started selling a product.
- 2024
Seed round
Raised at $22M, led by an investor we introduced during diligence. We took our full pro rata.
- 2026
Where it stands
22 people, selling in more markets than it started in, still run by the two people who wrote the first version.
Alongside us
Co-investors
We share rounds with people we would want on our own cap table.
- Craft Ventures
- Boldstart
- Lux Capital
- Matrix
Working here
Open roles
Pathwise is hiring in these areas. Mention us and the note gets to the founders directly.
- Learning design
- Institutional sales
- Data science
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