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Top 50 Beauty Startup Investors in Canada in May 2026

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Beauty startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Beauty companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Beauty Startup Investors in Canada in May 2026

Investor Beauty Canada investments
District Ventures Capital 3
Maple Leaf Angels 2
Pierre Lortie 2
BDC Venture Capital 2
Inovia Capital 2
Hedgewood 2
Kaktus Capital 1
Oxford Finance LLC 1
Tara Bosch 1
Bhavik Bajaj 1
Jim Estill 1
Desjardins-Innovatech 1
Harbinger Ventures 1
Anges Quebec 1
Serra Angel, LLC 1
Marine Layer Investments 1
BKR Capital 1
Nadav Ben-Chanoch 1
Hilary Duff 1
Duro Ventures 1
Wonderment Ventures 1
Paul Buchheit 1
Chelsea Handler 1
Sherbrooke Innopole 1
Comcast Ventures 1
Lyra Growth Partners 1
Thunder Road Capital 1
Top Knot Ventures 1
Bdc Thrive venture 1
Storytime Capital 1
Fondaction 1
Crédit Mutuel Equity 1
Disruption Ventures 1
Audrey Capital 1
Avonmore Developments 1
Fatima Yusuf 1
Jon Oringer 1
Dundee Venture Capital 1
Edward Lando 1
Accelia Capital 1
Good & Well 1
Jon Oringer 1
Manica Blain 1
Jon Oringer 1
Nadav Ben-Chanoch 1
David Ceolin 1
Buckley Endeavors 1
Jonathan Seaton 1
Sound Ventures 1
Ryan Merket 1

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District Ventures Capital
VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Venture capital funding for Canadian entrepreneurs. District Ventures Capital is led by Arlene Dickinson and invests in innovative food & health sector companies.

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Investment focus

  • Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Retail
  • Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Seed
  • Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Gainful — Personalized Protein Powder, Delivered to your Doorstep
  • Fody Food — Fody Foods Co. offers healthy, low FODMAP food products and recipes that are big on taste, and low in FODMAPs. Live and eat free of IBS symptoms!
  • Three Farmers — Three Farmers believes everyone should have wholesome food to eat, an understanding of where it comes from and how it's made. We are a family business with Three Farmers and Two Sisters at the heart, committed to preserving he land through sustainable farming practices, providing nourishing food grown on family farms.
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Maple Leaf Angels
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Maple Leaf Angels are an experienced group of private investors looking for great entrepreneurs, great products and great companies. Bringing together investment, experience and knowledge, we help accelerate companies to become market leaders in their industry.We focus on four main investment areas as follows:- Information Technology- CleanTechnology- Advanced Manufacturing and Materials- Special Opportunities

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Investment focus

  • Software, Health Care, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Grüvi — Gruvi is a line of craft brewed alcohol-free beers & wines.
  • Wyvern — Discover hyperspectral imaging and Earth observation data from Wyvern. Access research-grade satellite imagery that reveals the hidden reality of our planet.
  • EmergConnect — Home page - Localized information, services, and support for Canadian visitors.
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Pierre Lortie
Angel

Pierre Lortie

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Investment focus

  • Beauty, Cosmetics, Manufacturing
  • Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Biocean — Biocean develops and manufactures natural cosmetic products derived primarily from marine sources and markets with the Ocean+ brand.
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BDC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Calgary, Alberta, Canada

BDC Venture Capital is a major venture capital investor in Canada, active at every stage of the company's development cycle, from seed through expansion, with a focus on technology-based businesses that have high growth potential and that are positioned to become dominant players in their markets. The company helps create and develop strongCanadian businesses through financing, consulting services and securitization, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises.BDC Venture Capital has been involved in venture capital since 1975 and has to date invested in more than 400 companies involved in the areas of Life Sciences, Telecommunications, Information Technology and Advanced Technologies.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • Canada, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

  • Haply — Haply is a robotics company that provides haptic devices, prototyping, firmware, and virtual learning assistance.
  • JetScale AI — JetScale AI is a Montreal-based startup specializing in AI-driven cloud infrastructure optimization. It uses agentic AI to detect inefficiencies, provide remediation plans, and generate compliant Infrastructure-as-Code for cost savings and sustainability.
  • Cognota — Cognota is the first and only operations platform for learning and development teams. Our platform enables L&D teams to streamline training request management, improve project and capacity planning, rapidly design content and collaborate more effectively with SMEs. Clients across all industries are leveraging Cognota to improve theirproductivity by eliminating the need for multiple tools to manage learning operations.Looking to thrive in the L&D industry? Join the vibrant LearnOps® Community, a hub where L&D professionals gain insights, engage in thought-provoking discussions, access curated resources, and stay ahead of industry trends. Unlock the power of collective wisdom and experience in the #LearnOpsCommunityJoin for free at LearnOps.com
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Inovia Capital
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada

We support entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey and build technology companies that generate a positive impact on society.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Handhold — Handhold is an AI platform that creates multimodal agents to automate the sales and onboarding process for inbound leads.
  • Finaeo — Finaeo is powering the future of life and health insurance with our all-in-one platform. Our digital marketplace connects carriers, brokers and clients through a fully-integrated experience.
  • Super.com — Through rich rewards and everyday savings, Super helps you access more of what you want at better prices, escape overspending, and level up life.
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Hedgewood
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hedgewood is an investment firm active in venture capital, internet businesses, real estate, specialty finance, asset management, and private equity.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Software, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

  • Unito — Unito is taking on a major problem that people are passionate about solving: they make it easier to collaborate across teams. They don't make users learn new tools and change the way they work. By connecting work management tools, they allow managers, cross-functional teams, departments, and entire companies to benefit from seamlesscollaboration and improved communication. The app syncs projects across a number of tools like Trello, Asana, JIRA, GitHub, Wrike, Zendesk & Hubspot. This is a hard problem of semantics, synchronization, and APIs.
  • Vetster — Pet health starts with Vetster. Find and book veterinarians from across North America to provide excellent health care for your pet through video consults. Cats, dogs, reptiles, horses - all pets are welcome.
  • Ready, Set, Food! — Ready, Set, Food! makes it easy for parents reduce their baby's risk of developing peanut, egg, and milk allergies by up to 80% with our gentle, daily system.
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Kaktus Capital
VC Fund

Angel Investing

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Portfolio highlights

  • LUS Brands — Curly hair products designed to simplify your life. Customized for wavy, curly, and kinky-coily hair types. Cruelty-free, vegan, sulfate-free and silicone-free! Made in Canada with love.
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Oxford Finance LLC
VC Fund · Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Providing Flexible and Creative Financial Solutions to Middle Market Companies.

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Investment focus

  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Amino — Amino's digital healthcare guidance platform provides a fast, easy way to find a doctor, book appointments, and access health benefits.
  • Headspace — Live a healthier, happier, more well-rested life in just a few minutes a day. Get the science-backed mental health app for every moment. Try for free.
  • Pearl Street Dental Management — Pearl Street Dental Management supports non-clinical operations. They provide centralized services such as human resources, payroll, accounting, bookkeeping, finance, lending, facilities management, and information technology services. They address inquiries through online applications, phone calls, and emails.
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Tara Bosch
Angel · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Tara Bosch is a Founder of SmartSweets. She attended The University of British Columbia.

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Investment focus

  • Beauty, Mobile, Fashion
  • Seed
  • Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Three Ships — Three Ships Beauty is a natural skin care company. We make vegan & cruelty-free natural skincare products. Browse our diverse collection today!
  • Preemadonna — Preemadonna is the maker of Nailbot. Nailbot is an intelligent at-home robot manicure powered by a creativity and automation platform. Nailbot prints instant personalized nail art and decals on fingernails in 5 seconds using your smartphone. Nailbot is your ultimate nail art tool that prints digital nail stickers.
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Bhavik Bajaj
Angel

Bhavik Bajaj

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Software, FinTech
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Asepha — Asepha is an AI clinical decision support (CDS) tool to help healthcare professionals make faster clinical decisions.
  • ORA Technologies — E-Commerce, Super App
  • THIRUMALS PAPER ARIZONA PVT. LTD. — TRADING PLATFORM OF PULP , PAPER & PACKAGING
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Jim Estill
Angel · Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Jim Estill founded EMJ Data in 1979 and grew the company to $350,000,000 in sales. Jim sold EMJ to SYNNEX in September 2004 and became CEO of SYNNEX Canada growing sales from $800,000,000 to $2 Billion in May 2009. Jim was one of the founding board members of RIM where he served for 13 years.

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Beauty, Mobile
  • Seed, Angel
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • PumpUp — Pump Up turns messy workflows into governed AI agents with rules, approvals, audit trails, and human review built in.
  • Well.ca — Well.ca is Canada's online destination for health, beauty and baby products and offers over 40,000 products with free shipping on all orders over $29. They also boast Canada's largest online assortment of Green & Natural products. With offices and a warehouse located in Guelph, Ontario, and an office in downtown Toronto, Well.ca is aproudly Canadian company that focuses on giving customers a simple and hassle-free shopping experience.
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Desjardins-Innovatech
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Desjardins-Innovatech is a Canadian venture capital company that funds innovative businesses in diverse sectors across Quebec.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Canada, Spain

Portfolio highlights

  • IONODES — Founded in 2007, IONODES is focused on developing the latest in video encoding, decoding and management appliances and software platforms. Our unique experience in IP based video managements solutions, as well as our key partnerships with other leading companies in the security space means we can help you with both hardware and software for IPvideo surveillance. Let us guide you through the steps needed in building the right solution, from hybrid analog and IP solutions, to more advanced multi-site all-IP deployments.
  • Concentric Agriculture — Concentric produces high-performance specialty biological products that naturally improve crop yields and replenish soils.
  • LeddarTech — The leader in environmental sensing, fusion and perception for automotive and mobility, LeddarTech delivers actionable data for autonomous driving and ADAS.
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Harbinger Ventures
VC Fund · Boulder, Colorado, United States

Harbinger Ventures Provides venture capital and strategic resources to the next generation of female leaders. Harbinger Ventures identifies, invests in, and supports exceptional female entrepreneurs that have demonstrated proof of concept in an attractive natural products category. Harbinger’s focused investment strategy is designed to support itsprimary objective: driving outstanding, risk-adjusted returns for its investors. Their focused investment strategy is fundamental to their success. They exclusively invest where they have deep experience.

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Investment focus

  • Organic Food, Food and Beverage, Beauty
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Vitruvi — Premium essential oils and diffuser products that look as beautiful as they smell. Free shipping on all orders over $45.00.
  • Nona Lim — Delicious fresh Asian bone broths, soups, rice and ramen noodles made with clean, non GMO ingredients. No MSG or preservatives. Order online for home delivery or find it in the refrigerated or frozen case at your favorite store. Proudly made in Oakland, California.
  • 4th & Heart — We make premium, small-batch original and flavored ghee in our Los Angeles kitchen. Use pure spreadable butter in your own kitchen or give as a gift.
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Anges Quebec
VC Fund · Quebec, Quebec, Canada

Value-added investors for innovative entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Canada, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Zilia — Zilia's non-invasive assessment of biomarkers in the eye redefines the way we prevent, diagnose, and treat various diseases.
  • Gray Oncology Solutions — Gray Oncology Solution is a healthcare enterprise software company that commercializes GrayOS, the operating system for oncology.
  • Paperplane Therapeutics — Harnessing the transformative power of immersive virtual reality to reduce pain perception during medical procedures.
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Serra Angel, LLC
VC Fund

Angel Investing

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Investment focus

  • Beauty, E-Commerce, Consumer Goods
  • Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • LUS Brands — Curly hair products designed to simplify your life. Customized for wavy, curly, and kinky-coily hair types. Cruelty-free, vegan, sulfate-free and silicone-free! Made in Canada with love.
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Marine Layer Investments
VC Fund

Investor

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Investment focus

  • Beauty, E-Commerce, Consumer Goods
  • Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • LUS Brands — Curly hair products designed to simplify your life. Customized for wavy, curly, and kinky-coily hair types. Cruelty-free, vegan, sulfate-free and silicone-free! Made in Canada with love.
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BKR Capital
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

BKR Capital, a venture firm capital built with the objective of investing in promising Black founders in the technology space.

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Investment focus

  • Beauty, Wellness
  • Pre-Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Fyyne — Fyyne is a hair platform, connecting artists and customers to empower hair artists and promote black hair love.
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Nadav Ben-Chanoch
Angel · Miami, Florida, United States

Nadav Ben-Chanoch

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

  • Swaap — We we build & operate onchain trading systems.
  • micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
  • Dotfile — Dotfile is the Compliance Orchestration Platform for Fintechs. Streamline KYC & KYB and scale AML/CFT due diligences over +200 countries.
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Hilary Duff
Angel

Hilary Duff

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Investment focus

  • Fashion, Beauty, Cosmetics
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Cubcoats — 2-in-1 wearable & playable transforming friends. A take everywhere that kids and parents equally adore.
  • NUDESTIX — NUDESTIX provides cruelty-free, vegan makeup products that enhance natural beauty for a fresh-faced, nude look. Shop lip and cheek pencils, face highlighters and more.
  • Kopari Beauty — At Kopari, we believe everything you put onto your body matters. Each one of our products is made with luxurious skin-loving ingredients for all of your beauty needs. From skin to hair to personal care, Kopari makes clean coconut products for your everywhere.
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Duro Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States

Duro Ventures was founded by Sundeep Ahuja, a 4x founder, advisor & investor with 70+ companies in his portfolio (excluding investments made via other AngelList Syndicates). He backs mission-driven founders and is broadly focused on consumer, enterprise AI, enterprise SaaS, healthcare IT, e-commerce, distributed energy & blockchain-inspiredinnovations.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Unify — Route your prompts to the best LLM endpoint. Get the best output and optimize for speed, latency and cost to supercharge your LLM applications!
  • FullEnrich — Data enrichment platform
  • PrivacyHawk — PrivacyHawk is a Personal Data Protection service that makes opting out, unsubscribing, and deleting your data from thousands of companies easy.
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Wonderment Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Wonderment Ventures is a venture capital firm

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Investment focus

  • Beauty, Organic, Cosmetics
  • Seed
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Sahajan — We create Category Defining, High Performance, Clean Skincare based on the Ancient Indian Science of Ayurveda
  • Everist — Introducing the first, patent-pending and award-winning waterless concentrates for hair and body. 3x concentrated pastes that are activated by the water in your shower. We fit a whole bottle of shampoo, conditioner and body wash into 100ml travel-friendly aluminum tubes.
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Paul Buchheit
Angel · Mountain View, California, United States

Paul Buchheit is based out of Mountain View, California and is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Standard Capital. Paul Buchheit attended Case Western Reserve University.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

  • SiPhox Health — Painless, 5-minute biomarker testing at home. Clear insights, trend tracking, and a personalized plan built around your results.
  • Character.ai — Chat with millions of AI Characters on the #1 AI chat app. Where will your next adventure take you?
  • Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
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Chelsea Handler
Angel · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Chelsea Joy Handler is an American comedian, actress, writer, television host, and producer.

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Investment focus

  • Fashion, News, Beauty
  • Series A, Angel, Series B
  • Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • NUDESTIX — NUDESTIX provides cruelty-free, vegan makeup products that enhance natural beauty for a fresh-faced, nude look. Shop lip and cheek pencils, face highlighters and more.
  • theSkimm — theSkimm makes it easier to live smarter. Join the millions who wake up with us every morning.
  • League One Volleyball — The largest community of youth volleyball clubs with its professional league launching in January 2025, League One Volleyball (LOVB) is re-imagining the future of volleyball.
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Sherbrooke Innopole
VC Fund · Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

Sherbrooke Innopole is the economic development organization of the City of Sherbrooke which serves the industrial and tertiary-engine sectors. We provide free support to entrepreneurs in the industrial and technological sectors in Sherbrooke towards success.

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Investment focus

  • Manufacturing, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Immugenia — Immugenia is an early-stage immuno-oncology company developing a novel approach to CAR therapy by engineering hematopoietic stem cells to treat cancer and prevent relapses.
  • Calogy Solutions — Calogy offers thermal management solutions and modular battery systems for e-mobility, energy storage and power electronics.
  • TATUM bioscience — TATUM bioscience is a synthetic biology startup developing synthetic advanced biologics capable of multi-tasking therapeutic activities, packing all the advantages of combination therapy in a single agent to provide safer and more efficient treatments.
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Comcast Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States

Comcast Ventures is the venture capital affiliate of Comcast Corporation and partners with extraordinary entrepreneurs building transformative consumer and enterprise companies.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • EvaBot — Eva is the easiest way to send personalized corporate gifts at scale. Never worry about preferences or delivery details again. Just cc Eva in an email or chat on Slack.Eva's machine intelligence matches hip product companies with the unique interests and attributes of the gift recipient. The result is a perfect automated gift from acurated list of vendors.
  • Runware — Run AI models with the lowest-cost API for developers. Fast, flexible access to generative models for image, video, audio, LLM, 3D, and more.
  • ROSS Intelligence — ROSS Intelligence builds artificially intelligent tools to enhance lawyer’s abilities – allowing them to do more than ever before humanly possible. Their vision is to create the world’s smartest lawyer. Their first product, ROSS, is an artificially intelligent lawyer.ROSS Intelligence's customers include many of the top law firms andcorporate legal departments, both in the United States and abroad. ROSS Intelligence transforms lawyers' workflow with artificial intelligence.ROSS Intelligence operates out of Toronto, San Francisco, and New York.
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Lyra Growth Partners
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Lyra Growth Partners is a Vancouver based Investment Firm providing capital and brand-savvy coaching to help emerging consumer brands accelerate growth and maximize value. With Lyra, you receive the full package to help your business grow to the next level. We provide non–institutional capital that is free from unrealistic expectations. Ourcoaching focus is on creating and strengthening a brand’s relationship with their consumers. To ensure our mutual success, we also provide the necessary coaching for igniting both business and personal development.Lyra is looking for fast growing Companies with over $5 million sales. If you have an emerging consumer brand and you want to maximize value while nurturing a positive corporate culture, then we want to talk to you.

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Investment focus

  • Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Beauty
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Canada, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

  • Hooray Foods — Hooray makes delicious plant-based meats that are designed to look, cook, and taste just like the real thing. Plants that remind us of our favorite meats while being made of ingredients we can feel good about? Now that's something to celebrate and say Hooray!
  • Atolla — SNICASINO bersama-sama dengan Atolla dalam memberikan solusi revolusioner, menawarkan perawatan kulit yang sepenuhnya dipersonalisasi berdasarkan analisis mendalam terhadap kondisi kulit setiap individu.
  • Schoolyard Snacks — Old School Snacks Made the New Way: Low Carb, Keto Approved, High Protein
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Thunder Road Capital
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Thunder Road Capital, an Ontario-based venture capital firm, provides advisory and investment services to early stage technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Digital Media, Advertising Platforms, News
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Well.ca — Well.ca is Canada's online destination for health, beauty and baby products and offers over 40,000 products with free shipping on all orders over $29. They also boast Canada's largest online assortment of Green & Natural products. With offices and a warehouse located in Guelph, Ontario, and an office in downtown Toronto, Well.ca is aproudly Canadian company that focuses on giving customers a simple and hassle-free shopping experience.
  • Polar — Trusted publishers from around the world license our Format Management Platform to power a variety of digital advertising products.
  • Nova — With Nova, easily convert high-performing social posts into the best ads for every digital channel with just one click.
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Top Knot Ventures
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Investment banking, private equity and venture capital. I work directly with passionate founders as they build, grow and scale iconic consumer brands of the future.

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Investment focus

  • Beauty, Organic, Cosmetics
  • Seed
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Moselle — Automated inventory forecasting, purchasing, and planning for fast growing multi-channel brands.
  • Sahajan — We create Category Defining, High Performance, Clean Skincare based on the Ancient Indian Science of Ayurveda
  • DAMDAM Tokyo — DAMDAM is clean skincare born from Japanese craftsmanship and time-honored plant ingredients. We believe in creating thoroughly modern, thoughtfully made products that cultivate a connection between ourselves and the natural world. The line is minimal, made up of purposeful essentials formulated to work alone or in harmonious combination with eachother. All products are made with 100% natural ingredients that have high efficacy without causing irritation. Equally important, they feel weightless on skin.
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Bdc Thrive venture
VC Fund

Bdc thrive venture invest in women-led technology companies to accelerate their growth and transform today’s markets.

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Investment focus

  • Seafood, Manufacturing, Food Processing
  • Seed, Series A
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Waabi — Waabi operates as a self-driving technology start-up. Waabi is bringing the promise of self-driving closer to commercialization than ever before.
  • Xatoms — At Xatoms, we clean water with Quantum Chemistry and AI, revolutionizing water purification for communities worldwide. Our innovative approach rapidly identifies new, sustainable materials to remove harmful pollutants and pathogens. We aim to alleviate the burden on women and girls in underrepresented communities, transforming the global landscape of water accessibility and empowering a more equitable world. Xatoms is at the forefront of combining scientific innovation with social change.
  • Shoelace Learning — Shoelace Learning is the create games that instil a love for reading.
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Storytime Capital
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

We believe that work is being completely redefined in subtle and significant ways. Storytime capital has launched its inaugural fund of CAD$17.5m to invest globally in pre-seed or seed stage companies and the entrepreneurs that are influencing and writing the future of work story.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Apps
  • Seed
  • Canada, Australia

Portfolio highlights

  • Spikerz — Manage social media security threats in one platform. Real-time protection detects and alerts on threats, letting you focus on growth.
  • NLPatent — Accelerate productivity and uncover hidden insights with NLPatent's intuitive AI-powered patent research platform.
  • Thoras.ai — Thoras is an ML-powered platform that helps SRE teams view the future of their Kubernetes workloads.
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Fondaction
VC Fund · Clarke City, Quebec, Canada

Since its creation in 1996, Fondaction has been based on the belief that it is not only possible to do things differently in the financial and business world, it is a necessity.Fondaction helps Québecers prepare for retirement by offering affordable retirement savings to everyone. The savings collected are invested in companies across Québec.This way, Fondaction helps create and maintain quality jobs, contributing to a stronger, more equitable and greener economy.Created in 1996, Fondaction is a labour-sponsored fund with assets in excess of one billion dollars collected as retirement savings from more than 131,000 shareholders. Fondaction's direct investments and those made through investment funds support the development of more than 1 050 SMEs in different lines of business, in large part involved in various components of the social economy.Fondaction has always been resolutely committed to socially responsible finance, from the moment it was created. The principles of sustainable development are integrated in everything it does. Whether investing in businesses directly or in capital markets, Fondaction always applies the principles of responsible investment to the money entrusted by its savers.Fondaction was one of the first institutions in Québec to make accountability reports an obligation in an effort to improve its practices and contribute to moving sustainable development forward in Québec. It produced its first report on sustainable development in 2006 in accordance with the international standards of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the highest standards of precision and transparency in economic, social and environmental accountability.In 2010 and 2012, Fondaction remained at the forefront with its 3rd and 4th sustainable development reports, having them reviewed by an independent firm and achieving an application level of A+ from the GRI. Fondaction is the only financial institution in Québec to achieve this level.In 2014, Fondaction tabled its 5th sustainable development report, produced in accordance with the latest GRI guidelines, the G4. Fondaction also opted for Comprehensive compliance, becoming the 1st financial institution in North America and the 9th in the world to voluntarily adhere to these requirements.

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Investment focus

  • Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software
  • Private Equity, Funding Round, Debt Financing
  • Canada, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

  • Carbicrete — CarbiCrete is a carbon removal technology company that enables the production of cement-free, decarbonized concrete.
  • JetScale AI — JetScale AI is a Montreal-based startup specializing in AI-driven cloud infrastructure optimization. It uses agentic AI to detect inefficiencies, provide remediation plans, and generate compliant Infrastructure-as-Code for cost savings and sustainability.
  • Strato Automation — Real World. Real Data. Real Controls. Delivering Real Building Automation in Less Time.
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Crédit Mutuel Equity
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Crédit Mutuel Equity is the Private Equity branch of Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale.

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Investment focus

  • Manufacturing, Software, B2B
  • Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
  • France, Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Endodiag — Endodiag specializes in the development of products and services that improves the diagnosis of endometriosis. Endodiag takes part in endometriosis research by developing diagnosis solutions focused on patient screening and individual endometriosis characteristics.
  • Searchlight Pharma — Montreal-based Searchlight Pharma: Leading Canadian healthcare innovator with global impact. Expert in search, acquisition, and development of unique specialty products.
  • Panthera Dental inc — Panthera Dental design and manufacture custom-made dental restorations, sleep breathing disorder solutions and implantology products.
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Disruption Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Disruption Ventures invest in companies that are North American based, high growth at the Seed & Seed + stage.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, B2B
  • Seed, Series A
  • Canada, Belgium, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Blanka — Create your own branded cosmetics line with Blanka in under 5 minutes. 100s of high quality vegan cruelty-free cosmetic, skincare and beauty products.
  • Ginger Desk — Revolutionize your healthcare experience with virtual medical assistants from Ginger Desk. Get the help you need anytime, anywhere.
  • Vee — Vee empowers you to change the world by doing good. Use our platform to make an impact & invest in your community. Join us in doing good!
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Audrey Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States

Elephants always run on trunk.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Mobile, Hardware
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • npm — npm is the package manager for the JavaScript programming language. Developers use it to install, manage, and publish shared pieces of JavaScript code for both front-end and back-end applications. npm supports the JavaScript community by providing the registry where developers publish and share packaged open-source modules, and offers paid productsthat allow for the storage of private packages.The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Oakland, California.
  • Magic Mind — Your new morning ritual for steady energy, a sharper mind, and less stress.
  • Wildwonder — delicious sparkling drinks crafted with live probiotics, prebiotics, superherbs, and fruit to elevate your gut and immune health
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Avonmore Developments
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom

Avonmore Developments is the family office of Simon and Michael Blakey that focuses on investments into seed and early-stage businesses, primarily in the UK and Europe. Avonmore has been operating since 2000 and has invested in over 40 different businesses in over 80 funding rounds. Michael Blakey now runs Singapore-based seed fund Cocoon Capital(www.cocooncap.com) that invests in early stage businesses across SE Asia. Simon Blakey is a member of Cambridge Angels, Chairs the Investment Committee of Playfair Capital (www.playfaircapital.com) and is on the investment committee of the Angel CoFund (www.acfinvestors.com/angel-cofund/)Avonmore's approach to deals is hands-on: mobilising other angel investors, working actively with entrepreneurs post-deal, and coordinating further funding rounds.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Japan, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Koala — Travel insurance as it should be. No exclusions. No proofs. No forms. Offer the insurance your customers deserve!
  • zeroRISC — ZeroRISC operates as a stealth start-up making hardware security foundations transparent and trustworthy.
  • Shop Circle — Shop Circle is a tech-driven company that acquires and grows the best e-commerce apps. We empower thousands of brands to build experiences that customers will love.
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Fatima Yusuf
Angel

Fatima Yusuf

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Beauty, Software
  • Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Blanka — Create your own branded cosmetics line with Blanka in under 5 minutes. 100s of high quality vegan cruelty-free cosmetic, skincare and beauty products.
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Jon Oringer
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • SLUSHY — SLUSHY is a secure mobile web based platform for content creators to find, grow, & monetize their audiences. A creator first, tech-driven tool, designed with key discoverability features and audience insights. In a market where existing solutions (OnlyFans, Patreon) fall short of their creators' demands, SLUSHY provides an alternativesolution for professional content creators that prioritizes their monetization, support and management needs. SLUSHY incorporates a powerful legal framework, with robust compliance tools including simplified consent, ID verification, and content moderation. The new home of unrestricted content, SLUSHY is here.
  • Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
  • Unsloth AI — Unsloth is an open-source, no-code web UI for training, running and exporting open models in one unified local interface.
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Dundee Venture Capital
VC Fund · Omaha, Nebraska, United States

Dundee Venture Capital invests $250,000-$1M in high-growth, early-stage technology companies. DVC invests across industries in founding teams they believe in. Most of DVC's investments are in e-commerce, B2B SaaS, or consumer networks.Dundee VC formally began in 2010. The root of the idea started much earlier when Mark Hasebroock, DundeeVC’s founding, and managing partner, was raising money for his two e-commerce companies, giftcertificates.com and Hayneedle.com, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, respectively.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

  • Chief — hief is the first and only predictive operations platform designed for B2B SaaS enterprises in their growth stage. Chief turns unprocessed data into useful insights by combining and scaling up machine learning and generative.
  • Pear Commerce — Pear is the retail ecommerce platform that connects omnichannel CPG brands to retailers, combining shoppable media, where-to-buy, and closed-loop data to help strategically capture greater share of wallet.
  • Echo Labs — Modern captioning and audio descriptions to make entire video libraries Title II compliant within 24 hours.
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Edward Lando
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Edward Lando is the founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a co-founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Flent — Flent offers fully furnished designer homes.
  • Swaive — Swaive operates a financial firm that invests in risk-free instruments. The organization allows you to park your money without risk.
  • ToolBelt — The only platform built specifically for licensed pros in residential construction looking for work or finding labor.
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Accelia Capital
VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Accelia Capital is a venture capital fund that invests in innovative companies with high technological potential. We aim for diversity, performance, and impact by favoring businesses owned or led by women. They invest in the most promising start-ups that have completed the development of a product or service and have gained some market validation.Their portfolio companies also benefit from the support of renowned female investors who contribute their network of contacts and expertise in various fields.

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Investment focus

  • Beauty, Wellness
  • Funding Round
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Cinareo — Cinareo is leading solution for capacity planning that complements your WFM platform to provide you with insights on your contact center operations.
  • Trustii — Automated background checks and intelligent human risk management solutions for hiring, continuous monitoring, and compliance.
  • Glowtify — Manage everything you need to grow in one place: strategy, planning, content creation, campaign execution & more with our AI Marketing OS.
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Good & Well
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Good & Well is an investment firm partnering with early-stage social purpose businesses. The firm provides equity investments and strategic advice, operational support, and a network of inspiring and like-minded entrepreneurs to founders. It was established in Toronto, Ontario in 2014.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Retail, Health Care
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Dispersa — Harnessing the power of microbe-derived natural solutions to decarbonize the chemicals industry.
  • Otto — Otto Intelligence is a financial services firm provides strategic insights and client-centric solutions.
  • Kite Mobility — A sustainable multi-vehicle amenity for residents and guests
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Jon Oringer
Angel · Miami, Florida, United States

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

  • ToolBelt — The only platform built specifically for licensed pros in residential construction looking for work or finding labor.
  • Scaler — Scaler empowers real estate managers to protect investments, reduce operational costs, and meet reporting obligations. Our best-in-class tech delivers faster decisions, smarter strategies, and audit-ready documentation across your entire real estate portfolio
  • OneImaging — OneImaging makes life-saving diagnostics affordable, accessible, and personal. We connect employers, health plans, and members to a trusted national network of imaging centers, delivering faster answers with transparent pricing and premium care across MRIs, CT scans, ultrasounds, mammograms, X-rays and more. We serve organizations looking to control medical spend and individuals who need reliable results without delays. Every scan booked through OneImaging is proof that healthcare can be simpler, cheaper, and kinder.
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Manica Blain
Angel · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Manica Blain, consumer-focused investor and Founder of Top Knot Ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Beauty, E-Commerce, Cosmetics
  • Seed
  • United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Blanka — Create your own branded cosmetics line with Blanka in under 5 minutes. 100s of high quality vegan cruelty-free cosmetic, skincare and beauty products.
  • Sahajan — We create Category Defining, High Performance, Clean Skincare based on the Ancient Indian Science of Ayurveda
  • Iris&Romeo — Iris&Romeo is the owner of a beauty brand that sells skincare products. Customers may take care of their skin and have coverage with the company's clean beauty products, which include serums, moisturizers, sunscreens, and blue light and pollution protectors.
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Jon Oringer
Angel · Miami, Florida, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

  • SLUSHY — SLUSHY is a secure mobile web based platform for content creators to find, grow, & monetize their audiences. A creator first, tech-driven tool, designed with key discoverability features and audience insights. In a market where existing solutions (OnlyFans, Patreon) fall short of their creators' demands, SLUSHY provides an alternativesolution for professional content creators that prioritizes their monetization, support and management needs. SLUSHY incorporates a powerful legal framework, with robust compliance tools including simplified consent, ID verification, and content moderation. The new home of unrestricted content, SLUSHY is here.
  • Unsloth AI — Unsloth is an open-source, no-code web UI for training, running and exporting open models in one unified local interface.
  • OneImaging — OneImaging makes life-saving diagnostics affordable, accessible, and personal. We connect employers, health plans, and members to a trusted national network of imaging centers, delivering faster answers with transparent pricing and premium care across MRIs, CT scans, ultrasounds, mammograms, X-rays and more. We serve organizations looking to control medical spend and individuals who need reliable results without delays. Every scan booked through OneImaging is proof that healthcare can be simpler, cheaper, and kinder.
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Nadav Ben-Chanoch
Angel · Miami, Florida, United States

Nadav Ben-Chanoch

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

  • Swaap — We we build & operate onchain trading systems.
  • micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
  • TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
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David Ceolin
Angel

David Ceolin

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Investment focus

  • Beauty, Wellness, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Well.ca — Well.ca is Canada's online destination for health, beauty and baby products and offers over 40,000 products with free shipping on all orders over $29. They also boast Canada's largest online assortment of Green & Natural products. With offices and a warehouse located in Guelph, Ontario, and an office in downtown Toronto, Well.ca is aproudly Canadian company that focuses on giving customers a simple and hassle-free shopping experience.
  • Underknown — We are obsessed with boiling down complex subjects in a fun, engaging way by creating factual video content that sparks imagination and educates the world about science and the humanities.
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Buckley Endeavors
VC Fund

Investments

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Pre-Seed
  • Poland

Portfolio highlights

  • Ramp Network — Allow users to buy and sell crypto without leaving your app or wallet. Buy and sell crypto directly on our website.
  • LUS Brands — Curly hair products designed to simplify your life. Customized for wavy, curly, and kinky-coily hair types. Cruelty-free, vegan, sulfate-free and silicone-free! Made in Canada with love.
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Jonathan Seaton
Angel · Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Jonathan Seaton is the co-founder and chief executive officer at Twinkl.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Education, Music
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Bippit — Financial concerns are the No. 1 cause of stress at work. Bippit delivers expert guidance, planning tools, and support to every employee at every stage.
  • Wally Health — Unlimited dental cleanings and whitening for $199/year
  • Growth Kitchen — Growth Kitchen provides a network of delivery-optimized kitchens coupled with food delivery solutions and support.
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Sound Ventures
VC Fund · Beverly Hills, California, United States

Sound Ventures is a venture capital firm. The company seeks to invest in the technology sector.

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • Warp — Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees.
  • Diadia Health, Inc — An AI medical reasoning platform that helps clinicians analyze the root causes of symptoms and create personalized protocols that drive better outcomes.
  • General Counsel AI — GC AI is an AI platform for in-house legal teams. Draft contracts, review documents, and research legal issues in seconds with SOC 2-certified, zero data retention AI. Trusted by 1,400+ legal teams.
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Ryan Merket
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

I work with high-potential startups at Microsoft, identifying and empowering top AI startups to achieve more. With over 12 years of experience in the tech industry, I have a track record of building and scaling innovative products, leading high-performing teams, and investing in promising ventures.My passion is to help early-stage founderssucceed by leveraging my expertise in AI, product, engineering, and growth. I have mentored and invested in multiple startups that have been acquired or raised funding, such as Teachable, Apostrophe, and Yumi. I also co-founded and led product at Jude AI, a platform that helps realtors close more leads and deals with the power of LLMs. I bootstrapped it to $1,000/MRR in 3 months before joining Microsoft for Startups.Before moving back to Austin, TX, from the San Francisco Bay Area, I had early Product roles at Reddit and Facebook, where I learned how to scale and operate fast-growing organizations.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Apps, News
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • United States

Portfolio highlights

  • FlexDesk — FlexDesk is creating a new evolution of the flexible workspace model. Remote workers use the platform to discover and book a dedicated desk or private office by the day. FlexDesk unlocks this inventory by partnering with office landlords and coworking operators that have furnished, underutilized space.
  • Reflex — Reflex connects retailers with the top flexible retail talent locally, on demand. Retailers can cover callouts, omni-channel needs, holiday staffing and more. Workers can find flexible work, set their own schedule, and get paid quickly.
  • Revision Dojo — Thousands of practice questions, study notes, and flashcards, all in one place. Supercharged with Jojo AI.
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