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Top 25 Automotive Angel Investors in Canada (July 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Canada Automotive startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Canada Automotive startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Nikita Bier
Angel
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Mobile Apps $2M–$33M
Ryan Holmes
Angel
2 Canada, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, B2B $362k–$4M
Sameer Kochar
Angel
1 Canada Seed Mobile, Automotive
David Mes
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Brazil Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, SaaS $1.1M–$4.5M
Lindsay Adamson
Angel
1 Canada Seed Mobile, Automotive
Dillon Brooks
Angel
1 Canada Seed Software, Automotive, Mobile Apps
Parker Beauchamp
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Insurance, InsurTech, Financial Services $1.1M–$24M
Rex Salisbury
Angel
1 United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $1.3M–$25M
Andrew Wilkinson
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Internet, FinTech $805k–$19M
Ross Finlay
Angel
1 Canada Seed Energy, Aerospace, CleanTech
Walter James Treliving
Angel
1 Canada Angel, Grant, Pre-Seed Solar, Energy, Mobile $30k–$200k
Ben Orthlieb
Angel
1 United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $100k–$6.8M
Bobby Goodlatte
Angel
1 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $590k–$20M
Eric Kwan
Angel
1 United States, India, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Software, E-Commerce $125k–$9.5M
Stéphane St-Hilaire
Angel
1 Canada Pre-Seed Consumer, Automotive
Brett Wilson
Angel
1 United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology $1.3M–$30M
Farzad Nazem
Angel
1 United States, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Software, Analytics $750k–$50M
Richard Titus
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Automotive, Blockchain $20k–$6.6M
Charles Chang
Angel
1 Canada, United States, Australia Seed, Angel Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Fashion $1M–$2.5M
Andre-Martin Hobbs
Angel
1 Canada Pre-Seed Consumer, Automotive
Michael Levine
Angel
1 United States, Canada Seed Apps, CRM, Mobile $50k–$6.6M
Jenny Lee
Angel
1 China, United States, Singapore Series B, Series A, Series C Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $2M–$150M
Chris Rowen
Angel
1 Canada, United States Seed Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics $825k–$3M
Alexandro Sances
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Italy, Canada Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed Automotive, Mobile Apps, Manufacturing $1.1M–$5M
Benjamin Tuff
Angel
1 Canada Pre-Seed Consumer, Automotive
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Nikita Bier
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Canada Automotive startups

Nikita Bier

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$8.9M; Series A $6.5M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Locket Labs — Locket Labs is a popular app for sharing photos straight to your family and friends’ home screens.
  • Rainbow — Rainbow is a fun, simple, and secure Ethereum wallet that makes managing your assets a joy.
  • Practice — Sell your expertise online, and manage your business, all in one place.
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Ryan Holmes
Angel · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 2 investments in Canada Automotive startups

Ryan Holmes is based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, and is the Interim CEO, Founder and Director of the Board of Hootsuite. Ryan previously worked at Aritzia as a Board of Directors. Ryan Holmes attended the University of Victoria. Ryan Holmes has been awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $609k–$4M; Angel $670k–$1M; Pre-Seed $362k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Funnel — Our revolutionary CRM property management software saves both time and money for agents and owners while making leasing more efficient.
  • Go Oil — Go Oil is car maintenance made easy. Our service vans come to you and change your car's oil, rotate your truck's tires, replace your SUV's battery and more
  • Blossom Social — The investor's social network.
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Sameer Kochar
Angel · 1 investments in Canada Automotive startups

Sameer Kochar - Co-Founder, Developer and Director @ LastPass

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Automotive
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GoWrench Auto — Have your car fixed, maintained or detailed right at home or work without having to visit the mechanic shop. Book online or call us.
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David Mes
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Canada Automotive startups

David is a Founder and Managing Partner at Off The Grid Ventures, a pre-seed and seed stage venture capital firm. Off The Grid Ventures backs "off the grid entrepreneurs", i.e. women and foreign/immigrant entrepreneurs, in the B2B Tech and Fintech arenas. These entrepreneurs are underserved when it comes to early-stage funding, andyet the diversity of their teams lead them to reach great heights. Prior to founding Off The Grid Ventures, David was a Managing Partner at Arc Venture Partners and a Senior Principal at Cipio Partners, both secondary direct venture capital firms. In these capacities, he led and managed investments in successful companies such as Airtight Networks, Broadbus (acquired by Motorola), Continuous Computing (acquired by Radisys), Danger (acquired by Microsoft), DisplayLink, Fortemedia, Impinj (NASDAQ: PI), Polychromix (acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific), PSS Systems (acquired by IBM), Tropos Networks (acquired by ABB), Verimatrix, and Voltage Security (acquired by Hewlett Packard).Previously, David was an investment manager at the NESBIC CTE Fund, a pan-European early-stage venture capital firm where he notably led the firm’s investments in Outsystems and Oxxio (acquired by Centrica). Before becoming a venture capitalist, David started his career as an investment banker for Lehman Brothers in London and Banque Paribas in Sao Paulo.David holds an MBA from Wharton, a Masters in Applied Economics from the IEP de Paris, a BA in Business Law from Sorbonne University and a BA in Political Sciences from the IEP de Paris.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BaseVenture — We founded Base Ventures to turn access into opportunity for investors, founders, and the next disruptive idea.
  • Swarm Vision — Swarm Vision is the innovation system that drives rapid growth with your current workforce. Read on to see how you can get started today!
  • otto-js — otto by DEVCON is making the internet safer and security easier through our next generation runtime application security software. We save companies time and money while reducing risk and mitigating threats that can cost hundreds of millions in data breach. otto = security in seconds. Integrations with some of the largest CDNs, Cloud marketplacesand CMSs allows teams to start securing your company in seconds with no-code and low-code setup. Protecting brand integrity starts with caring about your customers. O++O tools, monitoring and protection give DevSecOps the real-time, runtime intelligence about the ever-changing dynamic security and vulnerability of your site and Third-party Scripts interacting with your company and customers. otto~mate your security with our otto~mated CSP designer, JavaScript vulnerability and out of date libraries alerts. Turn on malware protection and advanced threat blocking to protect your company from client-side attacks, data-skimming, Magecart, ad threat, cart-jacking and Third-Party JavaScript attacks.otto by DEVCON is committed to protecting consumers from cyber threats by democratizing cyber security (i.e. making it free for consumers). Our chrome extension protects and alerts users of threats and vulnerabilities as they surf the web, while generating a network effect, crowdsource of continuous threat intelligence. This network intelligence provides perpetual fuel for our threat intelligence engine and self-healing technology.
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Lindsay Adamson
Angel · 1 investments in Canada Automotive startups

Lindsay Adamson is Executive Director at Trusted Computing Group.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Automotive
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GoWrench Auto — Have your car fixed, maintained or detailed right at home or work without having to visit the mechanic shop. Book online or call us.
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Dillon Brooks
Angel · 1 investments in Canada Automotive startups

Dillon Brooks is a Canadian professional basketball player for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for the Oregon Ducks, where he was named a consensus second-team All-American and earned conference player of the year honors in the Pac-12 in 2017.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Automotive, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Panda Hub — Get an instant competitive price from the best car detailers near you, no sign up necessary, brought straight to your doorstep. Book now with Panda Hub.
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Parker Beauchamp
Angel · Boulder, Colorado, United States · 1 investments in Canada Automotive startups

Parker Beauchamp is the managing partner of Markd.vc

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Insurance, InsurTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.8M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$1.5M; Series A $13M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cyberwrite — AI-powered cyber insurance intelligence platform that transforms raw data into explainable, defensible financial decisions.
  • LuckyTruck — LuckyTruck | We're here to help! Buy commercial trucking insurance and manage it through one seamless platform. Get started now
  • CrashBay — CrashBay is a digital marketplace for car repair. We connect qualified car repair shops with car owners, insurers, fleet and rideshare-carshare companies everywhere.
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Rex Salisbury
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Canada Automotive startups

Rex Salisbury is the Founder and General Partner of Cambrian Ventures. He was previously a founding partner on the A16Z fintech team.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$3.3M; Series A $14M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GrabrFi — GrabrFi provides access to US banking and all of its resources and possibilities and finances, life to the next level.
  • Anchorbase — Anchorbase is single, intelligent platform that that connects your software, payments, and accounting tools automatically with no API integrations required.
  • Salsa — We sell Payroll infrastructure to SaaS businesses that want to embed multi-country Payroll in their products, through APIs and UI components.
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Andrew Wilkinson
Angel · Victoria, British Columbia, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Automotive startups

Andrew Wilkinson is based out Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and is the Co-Founder of Tiny. Andrew attended Ryerson University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $2.6M–$8.9M; Pre-Seed $805k–$4.5M; Series A $18M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Unit21 — Unit21 helps protect businesses against adversaries through a simple API and dashboard for detecting and managing money laundering, fraud, and other sophisticated risks across multiple industries.
  • Splash — Splash is doing this again in the pool care market, and I understand what it takes to establish a successful, category-defining business in this space. We'd love to join you on this trip.
  • VINN Automotive Technologies — Working at the intersection of technology and automotive retail, VINN aims to revolutionize the automotive retail model by connecting buyers and dealerships through an online platform.
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Ross Finlay
Angel · Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Automotive startups

Ross Finlay, a Co-founder and Director of the First Angel Network Association has been an angel investor since 2000. He has assisted many companies in raising private equity. Mr. Finlay is a recognized facilitator, senior business consulting professional and strategic change consultant who has an extensive background in public, private andnot-for-profit sectors. He has implemented major business changes in a number of organizations and has experience in conducting organizational reviews in the public/private and the not-for-profit sectors. He has extensive business networks throughout Atlantic Canada. He has been Executive Director of a provincial professional association and President of a national consulting company working with scientific, engineering and technical areas. Since his move home to Nova Scotia, Ross has managed his own successful consulting practice. He returned to the corporate world for a time with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and SolutionInc Ltd. – a Halifax based software development company. In 2002 Ross was a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Medal for outstanding community service through his efforts in numerous charities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Aerospace, CleanTech
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Meta Materials — META® delivers previously unachievable performance, across a range of applications, by inventing, designing, developing, and manufacturing sustainable, highly functional materials. Our extensive technology platform enables leading global brands to deliver breakthrough products to their customers in consumer electronics, 5G communications, healthand wellness, aerospace, automotive, and clean energy. Our nano-optic technology provides anti-counterfeiting security features for government documents and currencies and authentication for brands. Our achievements have been widely recognized, including being named a Lux Research Innovator of the Year in 2021. Learn more at www.metamaterial.com.
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Walter James Treliving
Angel · 1 investments in Canada Automotive startups

Jim Treliving is the Chairman and Owner of one of Canada’s most beloved restaurant chains, Boston Pizza International (BPI)—but that’s just the tip of the iceberg of his accolades. Well-known for his role as the encouraging, savvy, entrepreneurial spirit on CBC’s Dragons' Den, Jim has a history rooted in integrity—one which has led him well inthe world of business. One of Canada’s most successful entrepreneurs, Jim has been at the helm of the Boston Pizza name for nearly 50 years which has received prestigious recognition, including Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies Platinum Club, Canada’s 10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures, the Henry Singer Award from the Canadian Institute of Retailing and Services and, most recently, the Canadian Franchise Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Solar, Energy, Mobile
  • Stage:Angel, Grant, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Angel $30k–$200k
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Just Boardrooms — At Just Meeting Rooms, we are committed to making your boardrooms, meeting rooms, meeting venues and conference rooms a success.
  • PilotsFriend West — Precision crafted by bio-scientists and nutritionists, originally made for active duty jet pilots, PilotsFriend is a vitalizing energy tonic that promotes optimal concentration, performance, and health.
  • Operation Take Two — Operation Take Two is a social enterprise revolutionizing the global issue of waste by empowering communities to turn trash into treasure.
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Ben Orthlieb
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Canada Automotive startups

Ben Orthlieb - Head of Corporate Development @ LinkedIn

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$6.3M; Pre-Seed $100k–$6.8M; Convertible Note $250k–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Akorda — AI Powered Contract Lifecycle Management Software for the Enterprise
  • MindsDB — Make predictions from tables inside your database, then visualize them in your BI tool or App, all using standard SQL.
  • Acquire App — Acquire App is an online shopping platform transforming e-commerce by creating an unforgettable checkout. Acquire App's innovative, beautifully designed platform does it all, providing retailers with a powerful tool to attract and retain customers, and giving end-users an easy, streamlined shopping experience. Their mission is to empoweronline merchants of all sizes with an elevated checkout solution.It was founded in 2020 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States, and Montreal, Canada.
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Bobby Goodlatte
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Canada Automotive startups

Bobby is founder of Form Capital. He completed his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science in the year of 2008 from Duke University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $590k–$5.7M; Series A $3M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 222 — this must be the place.
  • howie — howie an email-based scheduling assistant, uses artificial intelligence to automate the scheduling and rescheduling of your meetings.
  • Capsule — Capsule is a startup that makes tools for editing short-form videos.
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Eric Kwan
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Canada Automotive startups

Eric Kwan - Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Locus Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$9.5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Treinta — Treinta is a digital ledger app for Latin American microbusinesses. Through Treinta, users can easily record transactions by assigning products from their inventory and see how their business metrics evolve in real time. The app helps owners save up to 30 minutes a day in bookkeeping related tasks and improve efficiency by over 30%. Out of the 50million microbusinesses in LATAM, today 90% still track their sales and expenses by using pen and paper.
  • Ferveret — Ferveret develops liquid cooling technology for data centers and other infrastructure. Our company is backed by Y Combinator and MIT Media Lab's E14.
  • Kriya AI is now Kalendar AI — Kalendar AI books new revenue on autopilot
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Stéphane St-Hilaire
Angel · North Miami Beach, Florida, United States · 1 investments in Canada Automotive startups

Stéphane St-Hilaire is chief executive officer and president of ADESA.As chief executive officer and president, St-Hilaire directs the development and implementation of the company’s overall strategy and growth objectives, and is responsible for ADESA’s North American operations.St-Hilaire joined ADESA Canada in 1998 as chief financialofficer. From there, he quickly moved into other senior positions throughout the organization. In 1999, St-Hilaire became ADESA Montreal’s general manager, and was promoted to regional manager in 2000. In 2002, St-Hilaire became regional vice president of Eastern Canada and general manager of ADESA Montreal. In January 2009, St-Hilaire was named chief operating officer for ADESA Canada, and in 2014 he was appointed to his current role as CEO and president of ADESA.Prior to joining ADESA, St-Hilaire worked as a senior accountant at Ernst & Young and the controller at AIT Corporation.St-Hilaire has earned a number of professional awards including: the Ford Motor Company Award, the ADESA Canada Auction of the Year Award and the ADESA Customer Service Award. He holds a degree in commerce from Laval University and a degree in administration from Limoilou College. He also earned a chartered accountant certificate from the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consumer, Automotive
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kiwiz — The most trusted pre-purchase car inspection in Canada | Within 24h | Free 90-day warranty | Don't buy a lemon by booking your inspection now
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Brett Wilson
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Canada Automotive startups

Brett Wilson is based out of Irvine, California, and is the Board of Director of Viant. Brett previously worked at TubeMogul as a Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer. Brett Wilson attended the California State University

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Series A $1.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Arize AI — Arize AI offers a platform that explains and troubleshoots production AI. The company was founded in 2019 and based in Berkeley, California.
  • LatchBio — The command center for all gene-editing bioinformatics. Analyze your CRISPR data without code in 5 minutes.
  • WeTravel — WeTravel is an online payment platform that offers organizers with pre-departure tools to collect funds and organize logistics.Travel companies create elegant booking pages in minutes to collect deposits, set automatic payment plans, and manage financials securely from all over the world.Its platform has been used for a wide variety of trips,such as yoga retreats, student trips, bachelorette trips, dance trips, company retreats or sports team travel. Its website allows organizers to create a beautiful website for their trip in minutes. Organizers can collect deposits directly on the Wetravel platform and then easily transfer the funds to their account or directly to a travel agent or airline (even internationally, at much better exchange rates than banks.
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Farzad Nazem
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in Canada Automotive startups

Farzad (Zod) Nazem has been a prolific angel investor and advisor to tech startup companies since his retirement from Yahoo! in 2007. He has invested in more than 60 early stage companies, and sits on the boards of Hand Foundation, and The Nueva School. His area of investment is about two thirds Big Data and Cloud platforms, and one third Healthand Medical. He was the Executive Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer of Yahoo from 1996 to mid 2007. He helped acquire and integrate over 50 companies and managed over six thousand engineers representing half of the company's employees. Between 1985 and 1996, Mr. Nazem held various software development and management positions at Oracle Corporation culminating in his role as Vice President of Media and Web Server Division. His tenure at Oracle also included membership in the company's Product Division Management Committee, which set overall strategy for Oracle products. Previously, Mr. Nazem was recruited from California Polytechnic State University by Rolm Corporation to be a software engineer in the VLCBX division. At age 19, he earned a B.S. degree in Computer Science with highest honors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 64
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$6.5M; Series A $2.8M–$14M; Series B $6M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Emailage — Emailage is a developer of fraud prevention and identity verification technology used to make transactions easier and secure. The company provides multi-faceted predictive solutions with email at the core through key partnerships, proprietary data, and advanced machine-learning technology. It proprietary algorithms in order to provide real-timealerts of risky transactions and delivers a risk score and enable companies to realize significant savings from identifying and stopping fraudulent transactions and improve customer experience.
  • Ceevra — Ceevra is an advanced 3D visualization technology for surgeons. Using AI and other innovative computing techniques, Ceevra generates brilliant 3D digital models from standard CT scans and MRIs. Surgeons use the Ceevra 3D models to help educate and counsel patients, to decide on the best surgical approach, and to gain important insights whileoperating.
  • TigerGraph — TigerGraph is the leading AI-powered graph database. Uncover hidden relationships, run real-time analytics at scale, and power fraud detection, customer 360, and AI
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Richard Titus
Angel · 1 investments in Canada Automotive startups

Richard Titus currently works as an Advisor to global founders and firms for Andronik Ltd. He previously worked at AIKON as a Chairman of the Board of Directors. Richard Titus attended UCLA Anderson School of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Automotive, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$6.6M; Pre-Seed $20k–$180k
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MetaCert — MetaCert takes just 1 minute to install and reduces the risk of identity theft, data breaches, phishing, malware and ransomware attacks, by more than 98%.
  • GBatteries — GBatteries develops advanced battery charging technology to enable electric vehicles to charge as fast as it takes to fill up a tank of gas.
  • Guardian Circle — GuardianCircle.com - a great premium domain available for sale.
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Charles Chang
Angel · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Automotive startups

Prior to starting Lyra Growth Partners in September 2015, (Charles’ own personal investment fund) Charles was the President and Founder of Vega, a company he started from scratch from his basement in 2004. Financed by his life savings, a second mortgage on his house and four credit cards, Charles built Vega to become an iconic lifestyle brand ofclean, plant-based nutritional products, sold in over 20,000 stores across North America. Honoring a triple bottom line approach to business, Vega and Charles have received many awards, including: Profit 100 Fastest Growing Companies, Best Workplaces, BIV 40 Under 40, Best Managed Companies and E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year. In August 2015, Charles led the sale of Vega to White Wave Foods for US$550 million cash. Charles is proud that corporate headquarters have remained in Vancouver and Vega’s employees continue to run the company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Velofix — velofix was launched in in 2013 by Chris Guillemet, Boris Martin, and Davide Xausa, who all share a passion for cycling and the common belief that bicycles can help change the world. velofix is the largest fleet of Mobile Bike Shops in North America. EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2018 Winner (Pacific Region-Emerging), featured in the New York Timesand recognized on Entrepreneur Magazine’s rankings for Franchise 500, Fastest Growing Franchises and Top New Franchises of 2017. velofix has also been called “one of the most impressive mobile franchises” by Entrepreneur Magazine. velonews calls Mobile Bike Shops the #1 Industry Trend in 2017. velofix has also been featured on CBC’s Dragon’s Den (Canada’s version of Shark Tank), which resulted in Jim Treliving coming on board as an investor. Charles Chang of Lyra Growth Partners has also invested in the company.
  • Sobo Foods — Sobo Foods is a plant based comfort food provider.
  • Atolla — SNICASINO bersama-sama dengan Atolla dalam memberikan solusi revolusioner, menawarkan perawatan kulit yang sepenuhnya dipersonalisasi berdasarkan analisis mendalam terhadap kondisi kulit setiap individu.
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Andre-Martin Hobbs
Angel · 1 investments in Canada Automotive startups

Since 1999, Andre has been a digital entrepreneur focused on automotive marketing. He has successfully built, grown and sold automotive digital solution companies.Andre currently owns and operates three successful dealerships in Quebec with heavy focus on non-prime.Andre created DecisioningIT to address the problems he identified in hisdealerships for his clients. A problem many dealerships, and businesses, also experience.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consumer, Automotive
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kiwiz — The most trusted pre-purchase car inspection in Canada | Within 24h | Free 90-day warranty | Don't buy a lemon by booking your inspection now
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Michael Levine
Angel · 1 investments in Canada Automotive startups

Michael Levine - Co-Head, Sports @ Creative Artists Agency

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, CRM, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$6.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Taplet — Taplet, Inc. is a mobile, media-rich communication company based in Los Angeles. After launching a successful application for extracting HD photos from videos, Taplet is now building a private group sharing and messaging app called Joyspace.
  • Ecquire, Inc. — Ecquire (formerly known as dropcard) hangs out where you work (Gmail, LinkedIn, even FB and Twitter) and sends data to where it needs to be (Google Docs, SalesForce, HighRise, or MailChimp).
  • Lemon Perfect — Lemon Perfect is a zero-sugar cold-pressed lemon water that’s full of flavor and packed with antioxidant vitamin C. We squeeze half a California-grown organic lemon into every bottle and can—and add no artificial ingredients—making healthy hydration more convenient, refreshing, and delicious than ever.The Lemon Perfect Company is headquartered inAtlanta, GA.
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Jenny Lee
Angel · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 1 investments in Canada Automotive startups

Jenny Lee joined GGV Capital back in 2005 as a managing partner and was instrumental in setting up the GGV presence in China.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: China, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$60M; Series B $6M–$60M; Series C $32M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tajir — Tajir offers full transparency on the prices of various products, addressing a challenge that store owners confront offline each day, and sells and delivers inventories to the stores, said the Khan brothers, whose father ran an FMCG retail distribution business for three decades.
  • Fiix — Our certified mobile mechanics will come to your office or any location to service your car.
  • Kuku FM — Discover the most popular audiobooks & podcasts on Kuku FM. Listen to trending shows, most-played content, and viral audio series everyone is loving.
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Chris Rowen
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 1 investments in Canada Automotive startups

Chris Rowen is a Co-Founder and the Chief Executive Officer at BabbleLabs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $825k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Algolux — Torc Robotics, self-driving truck company, announced the acquisition of artificial intelligence company, Algolux, to further its driverless freight solution.
  • DeepScale — Site will be available soon. Thank you for your patience!
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Alexandro Sances
Angel · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 1 investments in Canada Automotive startups

Alexandro Sances is a seasoned Senior Director and Executive with over 30 years of experience in Management and Consulting across the Telecommunications, Insurtech, Mobility, Telematics, and Space sectors. He has a strong background in digitalization, IT, IoT, and big data.Always interested in scouting new technologies (ie, blockchain, AI,VR/AR/MR, ...) Active Mentor of TechItalia:LAb Acceleration Program

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Automotive, Mobile Apps, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Italy, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Equity Crowdfunding $1.1M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MacRebur — > The Macrebur website
  • Next Industries — High-performance geotechnical sensors and IoT-based solutions for geotechnical applications, ground monitoring, SHM, infrastructure safety.
  • IMS — Leading connected insurance provider, using telematics data to help insurers improve pricing, policyholder engagement, risk & claims management
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Benjamin Tuff
Angel · Montréal, Quebec, Canada · 1 investments in Canada Automotive startups

Benjamin Tuff - Managing Partner @ Benjamin David Group

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consumer, Automotive
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kiwiz — The most trusted pre-purchase car inspection in Canada | Within 24h | Free 90-day warranty | Don't buy a lemon by booking your inspection now
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Automotive Angel investor funding in Canada at a glance

Stats across 22 deals from 26 investors.

26
investors
in Canada Automotive startups
22
deals
in Canada Automotive startups
$1.3M
median round
in Canada Automotive startups
19%
lead investors
lead at least one round
59%
Seed
most common funding stage

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