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Founded in 2002, LD Vision Group is North America’s second largest independent direct retailer of optical goods, managing a family of brands including OptiContacts.com, and ContactsExpress.ca. LD Vision Group is led by Arshil Abdulla, founder and CEO, Fayaz Abdulla, co-founder and CMO, and Sean Mitha, COO. The company has offices in Toronto, Vancouver, Buffalo, and New York.

@HardyCapital we are thematic investors. We like growth businesses that take exceptional care of consumers. We have had much success in the optical field and we are excited to add our participation in this always exciting category with our investment in Privé Revaux. We look forward to contributing to their exciting story and are looking for additional optical companies who are innovative and customer focused in the optical space. The optical industry is a vast category where one company still largely dominates. We believe there remains so much opportunity for small innovative, nimble companies to take better care of consumers and we will be looking for more investments in this sector in the years to come.

What is Sonder? It’s an answer to a lot of questions we’ve been asking. Like what would happen if we had a space to stay in neighborhoods we wanted to live in all around the world? What if those spaces included a dining area, and a living space and perhaps an extra bedroom or two for the kids? What if the design was modern and exciting, and the only thing cookie-cutter was…nothing? A place like that would help create a travel experience built to take guests further. To bring them home better. And that’s a place we’d like to stay. And a philosophy we’ve built our company around.

The world's fastest growing distributor of contact lenses and eyeglasses; with offices in 4 countries on three continents with more than 5 million active customers and more than 1 billion in cumulative sales. Investment in Coastal has doubled nine times since initial investment in 2000. Coastal.com achieved a market cap more than $450M cash at exit to Essilor, a $25B public company.

Surkus, Inc. develops and offers a mobile platform where brands and businesses can acquire target audience through incentives. It provides local events and venues with a way to cast their crowd by passing traditional advertising and promotional offers.

Naborly uses AI to help landlords automatically and securely verify their tenant’s identity, income, and employment, while also providing a complete credit report and criminal background check ABSOLUTELY FREE!

With Solink, you can embrace a fast, simple and intuitive way to protect your business from fraud. Regain lost revenue and get back to doing the things you love.

Flexitive is an HTML5 design tool that allows you to build designs optimized for a consistent cross-device experience. Building one concept across multiple screen sizes, resolutions and operating systems has never been easier and quicker.

Merrco is a secure payment gateway with fully customizable compliance controls to protect the integrity of highly regulated industry.

Nestled in the heart of Okanagan Falls between the stunning vistas of lakes Vaseux and Skaha in the unique landscape of British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley, Liquidity has been producing and selling award-winning grape varietals to well known B.C. wineries for over 20 years.

The 2016 Chardonnay Reserve has been listed as the number one wine in the Top 10 Chardonnays and received a Gold medal at the recent 2018 Chardonnay du Monde Awards in France.

Founded by Neel Grover former CEO of BUY.com and past Board member of Rakutan along with his seasoned e-commerce, mobile and social media team. Indi is headquartered in Southern California in the heart of the social media meets media epicenter. Indi is the place to Be a Star and Find a Star while enabling brands to connect in a meaningful way with their advocates.

Flexday transforms idle space (like restaurants closed during the day) into a curated network of workspaces. A Flexday membership gives you and your team affordable access to inspirational places to Work, Meet, and Create.

Hardy Capital is the second largest debt lender, after Fortress Capital, to TSX listed millennial lender MOGO. Mogo is a unique Fin tech disrupter who allows consumers to spend wisely by offering a full range of personal loans to meet their financial needs. The goal for Mogo is to help Canadians save $1 billion in credit card interest and loan fees.

Founded in 2001 to help organizations manage their telecommunications network costs, Tangoe has since applied that experience and evolved its solutions to help companies better manage the key technologies that form the foundation for digital transformation success. Our technology-enabled managed service solutions help organizations across industries drive both bottom-line improvements and top-line growth through digital transformation initiatives.

Tangoe announced its sale to Marlin Equity Partners at $6.50 per share on April 28^th, realizing a gain of +39%. There is a go-shop provision in the merger agreement, so we are still hopeful that a higher bid surfaces.

Jive-n provides everything you need for high-performance collaboration with teams of any size. It even has ready-to-use sites for Corporate Communications, HR, sales and your IT help desk, along with pre-built integrations for common apps like Outlook, Office, and Gmail. These and other capabilities have helped top companies and millions of people around the world achieve breathtaking business results.

Jive Software announced its sale to Aurea Software for $5.25 per share on May 1, 2017, realizing a gain of +27%.

RDM just announced its sale to Deluxe Corporation (NYSE: DLX) for C$5.45 per share, a 14% premium to its last closing price. RDM is a niche supplier to the payment processing industry focusing on remote deposit capture. We were initially drawn to the idea given its recurring revenue model, best in class product and asset light business model which led to significant free cash flow generation.

Foodee works with the city's best restaurants to provide delicious, healthy, and sustainable food to the best teams. We believe every meal should be made with fresh, local ingredients and always provide exceptional taste. Eating great food with your team improves communication, productivity, and most importantly provides quality team time.

One of the fastest growing online furniture retailers with annual sales exceeding USD $100M. With over 75,000 SKUs, Cymax is a leader in online sales for all items home and office. They are located in Burnaby, BC, Canada and sell to customers in the United States and Canada. Internet Retailer Magazine ranked Cymax within the Top 200 e-tailers in the world in both 2011 and 2012.

Acquired in 2004 for $11M and sold for more than $100M in 2014. After an upgrade to the management team in 2008 Lensway saw growth to 90% brand awareness in 2012. Sales of contact lenses grew to one of every three contact lenses sold in Sweden, Norway or Finland online and offline.