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Top 20 Automotive Angel Investors in Canada

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 20 angel investors that invest in Automotive startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Automotive companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.

Top 20 Automotive Angel Investors in Canada

Investor	Automotive Canada investments
Jenny Lee	1
Nikita Bier	1
Ross Finlay	1
Eric Kwan	1
Charles Chang	1
Ben Orthlieb	1
Andre-Martin Hobbs	1
Sameer Kochar	1
Chris Rowen	1
Lindsay Adamson	1
Benjamin Tuff	1
David Mes	1
Farzad (Zod) Nazem	1
Brett Wilson	1
Walter James Treliving	1
Michael Levine	1
Alexandro Sances	1
Stéphane St-Hilaire	1
Richard Titus	1
Bobby Goodlatte	1

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
China, United States, Singapore

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.
AGORAB2B — B2B SaaS eCommerce platform designed for digitalisation and engagement with B2B Clients. We allow create B2B Cabinet, B2B eCommerce stores, marketplaces, B2B/B2C/B2G, Sypplyers Procurements Systems(SRM).Our platform allows the launch new project in 3 times faster than traditional platforms. We use the LOW CODE approach for launch MVP.This company provides SaaS and OnPremise options. Growth opportunity: All market tired from long terms of development and quality. We suggest another approach. We make platform which can integrate without developers. It is cheeper and faster. And each business or consult partners will be able make digital transformation without long implement in future.

Nikita Bier

Investment focus

Software, Mobile Apps, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Locket Labs — Locket Labs is a popular app for sharing photos straight to your family and friends’ home screens.
Archive — Archive App automatically detects & saves Instagram posts your brand gets tagged in. Yes, Instagram Stories as well, not just feed posts.
Diagram — Diagram is a tool for design. They are reimagining UI design in the era of generative AI. They also provide a magical design tool powered by AI. The builders, creatives, and prototypers are looking to grow individually and together. They create radically powerful tools to improve the lives of UI designers.

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.

Investment focus

Energy, Aerospace, CleanTech
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Meta — 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.

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

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, India, Canada

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

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.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Fashion
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
Canada, United States, Australia

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 — YOUR HEALTHIEST SKIN EVER

Ben Orthlieb - Head of Corporate Development @ LinkedIn

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Canada

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.

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.

Investment focus

Consumer, Automotive
Pre-Seed
Canada

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

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

Investment focus

Mobile, Automotive
Seed
Canada

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.

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

Investment focus

Autonomous Vehicles, Automotive, Robotics
Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Algolux — The Best Accuracy for Your Safety-Critical Applications
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Lindsay Adamson is Executive Director at Trusted Computing Group.

Investment focus

Mobile, Automotive
Seed
Canada

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.

Benjamin Tuff - Managing Partner @ Benjamin David Group

Investment focus

Consumer, Automotive
Pre-Seed
Canada

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

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.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Brazil

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 — Stop hackers from exploiting your third-party tools and protect your web applications from Magecart, data skimming, malware, trojans, phishing, malvertising, fraud, adware, revenue skimming, customer hijacking, and spell-jacking.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Analytics, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada

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, Inc. — 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 fastest and only scalable graph database for the enterprise. Unleash the power and speed of our graph analytics platform today.

Brett Wilson co-founded TubeMogul, Inc. in 2006 and served as its Chief Executive Officer, President and Director from March 2007 to December 19, 2016. Brett Wilson has been employed at The House Fund. Brett Wilson is an experienced and successful entrepreneur and online/direct marketer. After spending three years as an IT consultant forAccenture, he left to found an ecommerce company - which under his leadership obtained over $69 million in revenue and was successfully acquired after two years. Brett Wilson then founded a successful online marketing consulting company. Brett Wilson received an MBA from UC Berkeley.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada

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.

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.

Investment focus

Solar, Energy, Mobile
Angel, Pre-Seed
Canada

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.

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

Investment focus

Apps, CRM, Mobile
Seed
United States, Canada

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.

A highly driven Senior Director and Executive with +25 Y in Management and Consulting experience, within the Telecommunication, Insurtech, Mobility, Telematics, and Space sectors and in Digitalization, IT, IoT, and Big Data areas.Always interested in the scouting of new technologies (ie: blockchain, AI, VR/AR/MR, ...) Active Mentor ofTechItalia:LAb Acceleration Program

Investment focus

Transportation, Manufacturing, Automotive
Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
United Kingdom, Italy, Canada

Portfolio highlights

MacRebur — > The Macrebur website
Next Industries — Next Industries designs and manufactures high accuracy data acquisition loggers, gateways and sensors provided with IoT solution technology.
Insurance & Mobility Solutions — IMS is a vehicle and driving data business, delivering enterprise solutions to over 350 customers including insurers, mobility operators and governments.

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.

Investment focus

Consumer, Automotive
Pre-Seed
Canada

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

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.

Investment focus

Software, Automotive, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

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 — Guardian Circle is a new worldwide public utility offering global, decentralized 911 emergency response. It is the first blockchain-based emergency response system to crowdsource safety, enabling users to access a decentralized pool of pre-selected citizen-rescuers who are alerted in the event of an emergency, dispatching aid closest to thesituation. These guardians are then rewarded in cryptocurrency with Guardium, a token that can be redeemed for more services or sold for fiat currency within the platform. Guardian Circle is headquartered in Marina del Rey, CA and backed by Magnus Capital, Distributed Network Advisors (DNA), and prominent investors including Jason Calacanis (LAUNCH, Inside.com), Peter Diamandis (XPRIZE Foundation), Falkora, Michael Terpin (CoinAgenda, BitAngels), Eric Pulier (Digital Evolution, US Interactive, Akana, Desktone, ServiceMesh), and John Valenti. Guardian Circle is currently available worldwide on iOS, Android and Amazon Alexa.

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

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Snazzy — Forget the old-school braces, straighten your teeth using invisible braces. Affordable teeth aligners.
Zurp — Zurp is a fintech platform built for superfans. Instead of a traditional reward program, Zurp offers exclusive experiences with cardholders' favorite influencers.
Capsule — Capsule is a startup that makes tools for editing short-form videos.

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