# Top 20 Automotive Angel Investors in Canada in June 2026 ## Nikita Bier - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, Mobile Apps Nikita Bier ## Benjamin Tuff - Type: Angel - Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Consumer, Automotive Benjamin Tuff - Managing Partner @ Benjamin David Group ## Ross Finlay - Type: Angel - Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Energy, Aerospace, CleanTech 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. ## Sameer Kochar - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Mobile, Automotive Sameer Kochar - Co-Founder, Developer and Director @ LastPass ## Jenny Lee - Type: Angel - Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence Jenny Lee joined GGV Capital back in 2005 as a managing partner and was instrumental in setting up the GGV presence in China. ## Walter James Treliving - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Solar, Energy, Mobile 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. ## David Mes - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Financial Services, SaaS 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. ## Ben Orthlieb - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence Ben Orthlieb - Head of Corporate Development @ LinkedIn ## Bobby Goodlatte - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology Bobby is founder of Form Capital. He completed his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science in the year of 2008 from Duke University. ## Eric Kwan - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce Eric Kwan - Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Locus Ventures ## Stéphane St-Hilaire - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Consumer, Automotive 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. ## Alexandro Sances - Type: Angel - Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding - Focus: Automotive, Mobile Apps, Manufacturing 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 ## Brett Wilson - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology 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 ## Farzad Nazem - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Health Care, Software, Analytics 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. ## Richard Titus - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Automotive, Blockchain 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. ## Charles Chang - Type: Angel - Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Fashion 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. ## Lindsay Adamson - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Mobile, Automotive Lindsay Adamson is Executive Director at Trusted Computing Group. ## Andre-Martin Hobbs - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Consumer, Automotive 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. ## Chris Rowen - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics Chris Rowen is a Co-Founder and the Chief Executive Officer at BabbleLabs. ## Michael Levine - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Apps, CRM, Mobile Michael Levine - Co-Head, Sports @ Creative Artists Agency # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co