We Build.
We Operate.
We Grow.
IBG Ventures helps ambitious brands enter new markets, build commercial momentum, and scale across North America.
Growth requires more than a good strategy.
We believe in building from the ground up.
A plan only creates value when it is properly executed. At IBG, we combine strategic thinking with hands-on implementation. We work alongside our partners to understand the market, establish the right commercial structure, develop meaningful relationships, and manage the operational details required for sustainable growth.
We do not simply recommend what should happen next.
We help make it happen.
From opportunity to execution.
Understand
Assess the business, product, market opportunity, customer profile, operational requirements, and growth objectives.
Build
Develop a practical market-entry or growth strategy — positioning, channel development, partnerships, distribution, and execution priorities.
Operate
Support implementation through sales activity, retail development, logistics coordination, account management, and day-to-day operational support.
Scale
Evaluate performance, strengthen successful channels, improve operating systems, and identify opportunities for wider regional expansion.
Six things that separate us
from a broker.
The market has plenty of intermediaries. We're structured differently — end-to-end accountability, transparent operations, full-stack execution.
Under one roof
No brokers, distributors, and 3PLs to coordinate. One team owns the whole engagement.
Compliance navigation
CFIA labelling, FDR alignment, bilingual requirements, import licensing and clearance — handled.
Live portal
Real-time orders, inventory, and placement data. The same screen we use is the screen you see.
Direct buyer relationships
Owner-level meetings and category-buyer pitches. No third-party sales reps — every relationship built by the team that also runs delivery.
North American reach
Active in Canada and the United States. Local execution, regional network, national ambition.
Weekly rhythm
Fixed field days, Monday reports, monthly reconciliation. Cadence is the difference.
Four service lines. One team.
Integrated support for business growth — grounded in what we've actually delivered.
Where every engagement begins.
The starting point for brands entering North America. Compliance navigation, import licensing, and the market context that determines whether a launch clears the border cleanly — or stalls before the first order is written.
Two ways to reach the shelf.
Distribution runs two ways with IBG. In the standard engagement, we hold exclusive rights in the markets we operate and move product from landed inventory to the retail shelf on your behalf. For products we're prepared to back with our own capital, we go a step further — purchasing inventory outright from the brand and distributing as a wholesaler in our own right.
The infrastructure everything else runs on.
Warehousing placed in the markets each brand needs to reach, freight coordination through our network, pallet handling, and the operational plumbing that keeps inventory moving.
Door-to-door retail acquisition.
In-person store acquisition, buyer pitching, order-taking, and account management with the store owner. The unglamorous work of turning a brand into shelf space, one door at a time.
Building Flojo Labs's Canadian market presence.
By combining market strategy with direct execution, IBG is helping Flojo establish the relationships, operating structure, and commercial presence required for long-term growth.
Local execution.
North American reach.
IBG is based in Canada and supports businesses across North America. A network-led model brings market specialists, operators, and commercial partners together per engagement.
Operations,
in the open.
Apollo is the operating system for every IBG engagement. Every partner gets a live view of their orders, inventory, retail placement, and growth metrics.
- Store & visit logEvery door, every visit, every buyer conversation — captured live.
- Orders & inventoryOrder state, replenishment, and warehouse counts in real time.
- Growth metricsNew doors, reorder rate, revenue per week — measured, not narrated.
- Monthly reportsPDF exports for invoices, visit reports, and reconciliations.
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Take a longer look at how we work, what we've done, and who we are.
Four service lines. One team.
Sales outreach, distribution, logistics, market-entry support — end-to-end.
Notes from the field.
Perspective on Canadian and North American retail — from the brands actually operating in it.
How we think about it.
Full-stack by design, aligned by ownership, transparent by architecture.
More than advice. More than introductions.
A growth partner
that takes ownership.
Traditional consultants provide recommendations. Traditional agencies deliver individual services. Traditional distributors focus primarily on moving products.
IBG brings these capabilities together.
We help develop the strategy, build the relationships, coordinate the operations, and support execution in the market. Every engagement is structured around the realities of the business — not a predetermined package.
Ready to build your next stage of growth?