Top 15 Art Angel Investors in Canada in May 2025
A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Art startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Art companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Art Angel Investors in Canada in May 2025
Investor | Art Canada investments |
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Tinie Tempah | 2 |
David Hariri | 1 |
David Wieland | 1 |
Nitesh Banta | 1 |
Clark Valberg | 1 |
Guillaume Laliberte | 1 |
Deepak Jain | 1 |
Mike Murchison | 1 |
David Zhang | 1 |
Michael Katchen | 1 |
Roger Dickey | 1 |
Rahul Vohra | 1 |
Ian Logan | 1 |
Jody Mulkey | 1 |
Satish Kanwar | 1 |
Tinie shot to prominence with his chart-topping album 'Disc-Overy' which featured the #1s 'Pass Out' & 'Written In the Stars'. 2 x BRITs, a MOBO and an Ivor Novello followed. His 2nd album 'Demonstration' featured collaborators such as Dizzee Rascal, Emeli Sandé & Laura Mvula. In 2015, Tinie returnedwith 'Not Letting Go' and a feature on KDA's 'Turn The Music Louder'. Both topped the charts to give him 7 UK #1s - the most by any artist this decade.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Art, Apps
- Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
- Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
- Gener8 — We believe that the advertising industry needs more transparency and that people should be able to control their own data. Our technology gives people the control that is currently missing. And if people choose to share their data with advertisers, we reward them for it. Consequently, people trust us and 83% of them share their data with us.Meaning that we have an incredible understanding about these people and their online behaviour. We work with companies (and their media agencies) in the capacity of a media owner to do three things: 1. Provide premium media for you to reach this highly defined audience.2. Use our proprietary first party data to unveil actionable insights about your customers, eg. their purchase habits.3. To promote your brand and drive an action from your audience.
David Hariri - Co-Founder @ Ada
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Investment focus
- Art, Apps, Mobile
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
David Wieland is the co-founder and managing partner of Motivate Ventures, a venture capital firm in Chicago. David is a serial technology entrepreneur with three exits (RIVS, Powersurge Technologies and InnFlux). He is the co-founder, former chairman, and investment committee member of VitalizeVC (fka IrishAngels.). BA Philosophy, Government NotreDame. MBA Northwestern / Kellogg.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Manufacturing
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Hallow — Pray every day with Mark Wahlberg, Jonathan Roumie, and millions of others around the world on Hallow, the #1 prayer app.
- Schoola — Schoola is an American online retail company that sells second hand women's and children's clothing. Schoola solicit the clothing via donation and in return donate a portion of each sales proceeds to the school of the donor's choice. Schoola is a self-service fundraising platform that schools, principals, PTAs and PTOs can use toraise significant funds for schools and other non-profits. To date Schoola has partnered and raised funds for over 10,000 schools throughout the US. Headquartered in San Francisco, Schoola was founded by former school administrator Stacey Boyd and is backed by several prominent angel and institutional investors.
- Unsplash — Beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project. Better than any royalty free or stock photos.
Nitesh Banta is the Co-Founder & CEO at B12.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, India
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- Vybe — Virtual Try-On & AI Styling for Fashion Stores
- Protege — Protege is the platform for AI Training Data. Protege works with data holders and model builders to empower them to share training data for AI model development.
- Chai Discovery — Building frontier artificial intelligence to predict and reprogram the interactions between biochemical molecules.
Clark Valberg Clark Valberg is the Managing Partner at Tiferes Ventures. He previously worked as the CEO and Co-Founder of InVision, the digital product design platform used to make the world’s best customer experiences. InVision is the cornerstone of the product design process for more than 3 million people at tens of thousands of companies,including eighty percent of the Fortune 100 and brands like Airbnb, Amazon, HBO, Netflix, Slack, Starbucks and Uber. He is a former Co-Founder of Epicenter Consulting.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Lottielab — Create and ship animations to your products faster. Bring your websites and apps to life with the simplest editor for Lottie animations.
- Snaptrude — Design buildings with your team & get real-time feedback from stakeholders - on any device, from anywhere in the world.
- Voiceflow — Visually design, prototype and publish voice and chat apps across channels like Alexa, Google or any custom channel/modality. Get started today, with no code.
Guillaume Laliberte - Founder & CEO @ Setter
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Investment focus
- Art, Apps, Mobile
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
Value Creator - People Oriented - Turnaround Champion - Cultural Integration Expert
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Investment focus
- Art, Gaming, eSports
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Anime Universe — The AU platform will be a fully immersive, safe and trusted environment where we will find a space for ourselves and our communities to create new memories and share our activities.
Mike Murchison is the CEO and Co-Founder of Ada, the leading provider of AI customer support chatbots. Ada provides a simple and powerful authoring environment, cutting edge machine learning, and lightning-fast deployment, automating millions of chat conversations per month for clients such as TELUS, Coinbase, and Shopify. In partnership withGenesys, Ada is helping companies improve their customer experience, dramatically reduce costs, and increase support team productivity.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Art
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
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- Lancey — Lancey is an interactive demo builder designed for sales and marketing teams to grow pipeline and close deals.
- Shakepay — Shakepay allows Canadians to buy/sell bitcoin and pay their friends. We're on a mission to create open access to building wealth.
- Garnet Labs — Protect modern dev/ops environments with behavioral monitoring, threat detection and enforcement. Detect and block unknown threats in real-time before they impact users.
David Zhang joined Silver Lake in 2013 as a Director. Previously, he worked in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Credit Suisse in San Francisco. Mr. Zhang graduated with distinction from the University of Western Ontario with a B.A. in Honors Business Administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Art, Social Media
- Pre-Seed, Series B, Series D
- United States, Canada
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- Brex — Simplify expense management with Brex's finance platform. From company cards to banking, Brex helps you drive growth, automate processes, & earn more.
- Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
- Koji — Koji is the world’s most powerful Link in Bio platform. With hundreds of free apps created by Koji and its community of independent developers, the Koji Link in Bio gives leading Creators on TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, and other social media platforms new ways to engage audiences, connect with supporters, and monetize.
Founder & CEO. Entrepreneur, passionate about transforming investment management.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada
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- Float Financial — Float offers modern financial services, powerful software and industry-leading support designed for every company and stage of growth. Our product suite includes corporate cards, bill pay, expense management and high-yield accounts, giving finance teams everything they need to manage spending and cash flow efficiently.
- Exact Technology — Discover innovative solutions to measure, monitor, and control concrete curing with EXACT Technology, ensuring efficiency, safety, and sustainability.
- Float Financial — All-in-one corporate cards, fast bill payments, reimbursements, and expense management software. Get started today for free.
Roger Dickey is the Co-Founder & CEO of Made Renovation. He previously worked at Gigster as a Co-Founder & CEO. Roger Dickey attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Education
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, Canada, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- SearchEye — Get tech-driven SEO at scale, speed and a fraction of the cost compared to traditional agencies. Acquire PR Mentions, Digital PR and Content.
- Double — Double is a software platform that helps users to build, automate, and analyze investment portfolio for retail investors.
- Craftwork — Craftwork is a modern general contracting company that uses technology to simplify repair and renovation projects for homeowners.
Rahul Vohra is the Founder and CEO at Superhuman. He is also the Technical Advisor at BOLDstart Ventures and Investor & Advisor at Partender and Investor of sendwithus and EasyPost.Rahul Vohra is a former CEO and Co-Founder of Rapportive and Game Designer at Jagex. Rahul received a bachelor of arts in Computer Science at the University ofCambrigdge.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Bubbles — Bubbles is a collaboration tool that lets you tag anything on your screen and invite your teammates to discuss in-context. Get excited by organic growth and viral loops, and less so by paid advertising. Are active on one or more social platforms like Medium, Twitter, Product Hunt, etc.
- Quest Portal — Quest Portal makes role-play and tell fantastical stories together by means of crafting and creates characters.
- Zed Industries — Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
Ian Logan is the VP Engineering at Rose Rocket, a SaaS-based Transportation Management System (TMS) specializing in workflow automation for Enterprise and SMB transport companies.He was the former VP Engineering at Drop, an intelligent app that surfaces offers & rewards based on what members are spending, creating a personalized, seamlessexperience.He was also a former Director of Engineering for Payments at Airbnb, a community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique spaces around the world. Ian has led engineering teams over many years, overseeing architecture and implementation of the website and helped Airbnb grow the payments platform internationally to process dozens of different currencies and payment methods. Ian joined Airbnb as an early engineer and built out other teams related to growth and site performance engineering. In a previous life, Ian built core trading algorithms and applications for world-class investment banks.
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Investment focus
- Art, Apps, Mobile
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
- Cartage — Cartage is a managed logistics service provider for shippers. We act as your logistics team and coordinate freight carrier-direct. Powered by AI, led by industry experts.
Jody Mulkey has worked at Shopzilla since January 1999. After wearing many hats along the way Jody is currently the Chief Information Officer responsible for the overall technology development and operations of the company. Before joining Shopzilla, Mulkey was in charge of the Web presence at Isocor. Before that he worked at WilliamO'Neil + Co., an institutional investment services company. He was part of the team that brought both the flagship WONDA product to the Internet and created an online consumer version of Daily Graphs.Mulkey holds a bachelor of science degree in business administration from the University of Southern California, with concentrations in information systems, and is a graduate of the Entrepreneur Program. He originally hails from the great state of Texas, but is happy to have called California home for the past 18 years. Mulkey is an avid snowboarder and can be found most winter weekends on the slopes of Mammoth Mountain.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Art, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
- Aspiration — Aspiration is an online financial firm that offers retail banking and investing services built for everyone. Aspiration delivers the financial products that people need in a consumer-focused model that empowers people to choose their fee and aligns the interests of Aspiration and its customers. The company donates a dime of every dollar it earns tohelp Americans that work to climb the ladder of opportunity while making it possible for its customers to choose to give a portion of their profits to a charitable cause of their choice.
- Stasis Labs — Stasis Labs has converted medical hardware into a big data, SaaS product with a cloud-connected vital signs monitoring platform. On average 80% of patients in emerging markets, and 60% of patients in developed countries have their vitals checked manually every 4-8 hours because existing monitoring systems are overly complex and cost prohibitive.Stasis was apart of the first cohort of 11 companies in Techstars Healthcare Accelerator, in Partnership with Cedars-Sinai. Stasis was recently awarded grant funding by the International Finance Corporation, a World Bank Group to help improve the medical technology of India. Currently, Stasis is live in Indian hospitals and continues to roll out their pilot program
Satish Kanwar is a VP of Product at Shopify, where he oversees strategic product initiatives for over 1 million merchants globally. Satish led Shopify’s formative expansion from online stores to multi-channel commerce, accelerating merchants' sales across eCommerce, brick-and-mortar, and new sales channels. Satish previously co-founded userexperience studio Jet Cooper, which was acquired by Shopify in order to establish its product development footprint in Toronto. Satish is an active angel investor, public speaker, and advisor.He attended the University of Toronto Scarborough.
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Investment focus
- Mobile Apps, FinTech, Art
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
- Disco — One platform to build, market, and sell live courses, workshops, and learning communities.
- Stadium Live Studios — Stadium Live is a unique digital world for sports & esports fans - create, connect and play with fans around the world to shape your own stadium.
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