Toronto startup IT

Managed IT for Toronto startups

Microsoft 365, AWS, cybersecurity, and SOC 2 readiness from day one. An outsourced IT team that scales from a five-person seed round through Series A and B without you hiring a head of IT.

15 min
Critical response SLA
Day 1
SOC 2 & enterprise-ready
401 Bay
Same building as MaRS neighbours
Seed → B
Scales with the round

Built for the way Toronto startups work

You are hiring engineers, not a head of IT. Your enterprise customers are asking for SOC 2 before they sign. Your board wants a technology budget in the deck. Here is what NFD does specifically for growth-stage startups.

Microsoft 365 tenant done right
Conditional access, MFA, DLP, retention, mailbox archival, offboarding on day one. What your CTO would set up on a good day, running on our clock.
AWS and Azure account governance
Landing zone, IAM, MFA on root, VPC design, billing alerts, disaster-recovery runbooks. Not competing with your engineering team - we handle the platform, they build the product.
SOC 2 readiness for enterprise sales
Bridge letter from us. Policy templates for your team. Pre-answered vendor questionnaires. Everything a Vanta or Drata implementation needs on the IT side.
Cybersecurity from day one
Managed EDR on every laptop, managed email security, MFA everywhere, phishing simulations, dark-web credential monitoring. Meets every VC-portfolio security review.
Onboarding and offboarding at scale
New hire receives a fully-provisioned laptop and Microsoft 365 identity on their start date. Departing employee is fully off every system inside 30 minutes.
Named engineers, not a queue
Two named engineers per account. Slack channel with 15-minute critical SLA. Escalation into workstation, cloud, and security specialists as needed.

Services included in a standard startup engagement

  • Slack- and Teams-based support. A shared channel with named engineers, 15-minute critical response, no email ticket walls.
  • Managed Microsoft 365. Provisioning, conditional access, MFA, retention, DLP, SharePoint, secure external sharing.
  • Managed cybersecurity. EDR, email security, MFA, phishing simulations, dark-web monitoring, quarterly security reports for the board deck.
  • Cloud infrastructure governance. AWS or Azure landing zone, IAM, cost dashboards, tagging policy, backup and DR runbooks - alongside your engineering team, not replacing them.
  • SOC 2 IT support. IT-side controls, evidence collection, auditor liaison, policy templates. Works alongside Vanta, Drata, Secureframe, or your own Type II project.
  • Hardware lifecycle. MacBook or ThinkPad standard, imaged and shipped to new hires' addresses. MDM-managed. Return-shipping kits included in offboarding.

FAQ for founders and operations leads

Will you compete with our engineering team?

No. We manage the corporate IT surface - laptops, Microsoft 365, endpoint security, corporate cloud governance. Your engineers build the product. Boundaries are documented in writing so both teams know what they own.

Can we bring you in for SOC 2 without changing our stack?

Yes. We work alongside Vanta, Drata, Secureframe, and Sprinto. Your team owns the compliance program - we own the IT-side controls, evidence, and auditor Q&A.

What if we hire a head of IT later?

We hand over cleanly. Documentation, admin credentials, tooling, and any remaining commitments transfer to your new hire. Common story: our clients grow past us at Series B/C and we happily transition.

Is there a startup-friendly commercial arrangement?

Yes. Month-to-month, per-user pricing that scales with headcount. No multi-year lock-in for early-stage clients. Notice period is 30 days.

Where are your engineers?

Toronto (401 Bay Street), Markham, Kitchener, Mississauga, Pickering, and Montreal. On-site help is possible in the GTA and Waterloo Region within the same day.

Ready to stop being the IT person at your own startup

Book a 20-minute scoping call. We show you what a first 30 days looks like and give you a written proposal within five business days.