What Reinvent Technology does

Reinvent Technology is a Vancouver-based, privately held idea incubator founded in 2014 by Dr. Kevin Ham that builds and scales multiple digital ventures across ecommerce logistics, digital real estate, consumer health, and art. Its portfolio is anchored by Chit Chats, a Canadian ecommerce shipping solution that aggregates volume from small sellers to offer low-cost, fully tracked cross-border postage, and by Venture.com, a digital lease platform that gives startups access to premium brandable domains on a subscription basis. The company also holds a portfolio of acquired premium domains — including Mother.com, Vancouver.com, Infertility.com, Menopause.com, Git.com, and Eticket.com — used either as standalone sub-brands or held for future venture development.

The business model is a hybrid of transactional and recurring revenue: Chit Chats generates transaction fees on shipping, Venture.com earns recurring lease revenue on domain subscriptions, and the Reinvent Art sub-brand sells David X's mixed-media Reimagine Life paintings through an owned storefront and the Saatchi Art marketplace at a $200 unit price. Marketing is product-led and self-serve, with distribution split between owned platforms, ecommerce marketplaces, and organic social channels. Adjacent to the commercial portfolio, Reinvent operates Dream to Cure (a peer-to-peer cancer research fundraising ride), Veritas (a health-and-wealth summit), and a co-ownership stake in Israel Start-Up Nation, a UCI WorldTour cycling team — assets that function primarily as brand and ecosystem extensions rather than core monetization lines.

The technology stack is not disclosed publicly. The platforms are described as self-serve, integration-friendly software (Chit Chats integrates with major ecommerce platforms; Venture.com operates as a digital lease platform), but there is no evidence of proprietary core technology, patents, or AI/ML capabilities. Reinvent has no institutional funding rounds on record, no parent company, and operates with a small Vancouver-based team of 11–50 employees out of a renovated Yaletown headquarters.

Name

Reinvent Technology

Legal name

Reinvent

Website

https://reinvent.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Reinvent Technology is a Vancouver-based private idea incubator founded in 2014 that builds and operates multiple digital ventures, including Chit Chats (Canadian ecommerce shipping), Venture.com (premium domain leasing for startups), and the Reimagine Life art collaboration with David X.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Digital Venture Studio

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Legacy Modernization & Application Rationalization (BPAEAAAG)

Keywords

• Ecommerce shipping platform
• Domain leasing service
• Startup incubator
• Digital platform development
• Venture studio

Headquarters

HQ city

Vancouver

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Chit Chats Shipping Platform: Ecommerce shipping platform for Canadian entrepreneurs offering low-cost, tracked postage solutions. Revenue generated from shipping fees and service charges.
2. Venture Domain Leasing: Digital lease platform enabling startups to access premium brandable domains. Revenue model based on domain leasing fees.
3. Art Sales: Sale of David X's Reimagine Life mixed media paintings through website and Saatchi Art marketplace.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Reinvent Technology is a Vancouver-based idea incubator that builds, acquires, and scales digital platforms across business, health, arts, and life. Its core commercial offerings include Chit Chats, a Canadian ecommerce shipping solution providing low-cost tracked postage, and Venture.com, a digital leasing platform that enables startups to access premium brandable domain names. The company also operates art, health, and charitable ventures under the Reinvent umbrella.

Product overview

Reinvent is an idea incubator that develops and acquires digital products. The portfolio consists of a core platform called Venture.com (digital domain leasing for startups), an acquired brand Chit Chats (Canadian ecommerce shipping solution), and multiple domain brands including Mother.com, Eticket.com, Vancouver.com, Infertility.com, Menopause.com, and Git.com. Additionally, Reinvent operates an art initiative through the Reimagine Life collaboration with artist David X featuring mixed media paintings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Reinvent Art: Mixed media art collaboration between Reinvent and artist David X, featuring portrait paintings of famous figures including celebrities, historical icons, and pop culture subjects. Paintings are sold online and exhibited at art shows.
• Dream to Cure
• Veritas
• Chit Chats
• Venture

Products and services

• Chit Chats Canada's ecommerce shipping solution providing low-cost, fully tracked postage for Canadian entrepreneurs to access U.S. and international markets, with platform integrations for ecommerce sellers.
• Venture.com Digital lease platform that enables startups to find and lease premium brandable domain names through innovative lease arrangements.
• Mother.com Platform empowering maternal journeys from fertility through to flourished parenting.
• Reinvent Art (Reimagine Life collection) Art collaboration platform featuring David X's mixed media paintings created during his leukemia journey, including the Reimagine Life exhibit. Paintings are sold through the Reinvent Art website and Saatchi Art marketplace.

Quantifiable outcome

• Chit Chats has grown from family business to Canadian seller favorite

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor, core and flagship.

• SwatchminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 January 2019Swatch sponsored the ART+Soul exhibitions in Whistler (2018, 2019) where David X/Reimagine Life art was displayed.
• David XcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDavid X is a mixed media contemporary artist who creates striking paintings fusing Eastern and Western artistic traditions. He collaborated with Reinvent on the 'Reimagine Life' exhibit, creating inspirational paintings. David X was diagnosed with leukemia in 2002 and given life through bone marrow transplant. His art collaboration with Reinvent represents the company's artistic and charitable initiatives.
• Israel Start-up NationflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerReinvent is a co-owner of Israel Start-up Nation, a UCI WorldTour cycling team. This partnership combines the company's entrepreneurial activities with cycling and charitable fundraising for cancer research through the Dream to Cure initiative.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Stamps.com (Auctane): Stamps.com, now part of Auctane, is an established US-focused ecommerce postage and shipping software provider serving SMBs and consumers; comparable to Chit Chats in target market and transaction-fee revenue model, but with significantly broader geographic scale.
• Pitney Bowes: Pitney Bowes is a long-established shipping, mailing, and ecommerce logistics incumbent offering postage solutions comparable to Chit Chats, but at enterprise scale with a much broader product portfolio.
• GoDaddy: GoDaddy is the dominant domain registrar and hosting provider, and a broad incumbent comparable to Venture.com in the brandable domain space; it sells rather than leases, but competes for the same startup customer base.

Direct peers

• Squadhelp: Squadhelp is a brandable domain marketplace and naming platform helping startups acquire premium domains, directly comparable to Venture.com's focus on brandable domains for early-stage founders.
• EasyPost: EasyPost is a multi-carrier shipping API platform used by SMBs and enterprises to access discounted postage rates, directly comparable to Chit Chats' integrations-led, low-cost shipping value proposition for ecommerce sellers.
• Betaworks: Betaworks is a venture studio and incubator that builds and invests in internet-first companies across multiple verticals, directly comparable to Reinvent's idea incubator model of simultaneously developing multiple digital platform businesses.
• Idealab: Idealab is one of the longest-running technology venture studios, building and launching multiple internet and software businesses simultaneously; comparable to Reinvent's portfolio-of-ventures approach with an incubator-style operating model.
• Sedo: Sedo is one of the world's largest domain marketplaces for buying, selling, and parking premium domains, directly comparable to Venture.com's domain leasing and brandable domain intermediation model.
• ShipStation: ShipStation is a leading ecommerce shipping aggregation platform for SMB and mid-market sellers, directly comparable to Chit Chats in providing low-cost, multi-carrier label printing and integrations with major ecommerce platforms.
• Atom (formerly Atomic): Atom is a premium brandable domain marketplace serving startups and SMBs, directly comparable to Venture.com in offering curated, brandable .com domains to founders seeking distinctive identities.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/reinventinc
• Instagraminstagram.com/reinventdavidx
• Xx.com/reinventinc
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/reinvent-inc.

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries11 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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