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Top 50 Big Data Angel Investors in Canada in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Big data startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Big data companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Big Data Angel Investors in Canada in April 2025

Investor	Big Data Canada investments
Markus Frind	2
Sanders Lee	2
Lance Priebe	2
Blaine LaBonte	2
Lance Tracey	2
Ashif Mawji	2
Hesham Zreik	1
Marco Schnabl	1
Jill Rowley	1
Jamie McDonald	1
Nasir Jones	1
John Baker	1
Zach Coelius	1
Nick Koudas	1
Johannes Gnauck	1
Jim Fletcher	1
Auren Hoffman	1
Nilesh Bansal	1
Shawn Abbott	1
Nitesh Banta	1
Bashar Hamood	1
Paul Buchheit	1
Bart Swanson	1
Jean-François Grenon	1
Craig Coblenz	1
Rian Gauvreau	1
Jim Spatz	1
Adam Caplan	1
Tim Draper	1
Güimar Vaca Sittic	1
Fabrice Grinda	1
Marc Altshuller	1
Erik Peterson	1
Ty Danco	1
Bob. Wertz	1
Tom O'Connell	1
Louis Beryl	1
Giordano Contestabile	1
James Freeman	1
Amadeo Brenninkmeijer	1
Michael Volker	1
Ryan Holmes	1
Jerry Neumann	1
Michael Dornbrook	1
Jonathan James	1
Tom Williams	1
Jevon MacDonald	1
Tidhar Carmeli	1
Stephen Ufford	1
Jared Kopf	1

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Markus Frind

Investment focus

Retail, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cymax Group Technologies Ltd. — Cymax Group simplifies the complexities of eCommerce by combining nearly two decades of technology expertise with award winning products and dedicated account management. Maximize the best of technology, automation, and AI to simplify the complexities of eCommerce through our two products - Channel
Symend — Symend’s digital engagement platform uses behavioral science and data-driven insights to empower customers to resolve past due bills. Leveraging advanced analytics, Symend helps enterprises better engage millions of customers by providing deep insight into consumer behavior. Symend continuously optimizes these insights and empathetically nudgescustomers towards a desired action with personalized communications, self-serve tools and flexible repayment options. Symend’s relationship-based approach keeps enterprises attuned to the changing needs of their customers and empowers them to take action. This increases customer satisfaction, lowers operating costs, and helps resolve past due bills before reaching collections. Founded in 2016, Symend’s platform is purpose built to serve complex global enterprises in telecommunications, financial services, utilities and media. Symend is headquartered in Calgary and privately held, with global operations across Canada, the United States and Latin America. For more information, please visit https://symend.com/ and follow the company on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Tastry, Inc. — Tastry wine AI provides unparalleled visibility for winemakers and retailers into your wine's chemistry and how consumers will perceive it. Learn more here.

Sanders Lee is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Hope Well. He previously worked in Groundbreak Ventures as a Founder and Partner. Sanders Lee attended the University of Augsburg.

Investment focus

FinTech, Big Data, Software
Seed, Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

ZayZoon — ZayZoon is a pioneer in earned wage access (EWA) with our flagship product Wages On-Demand. Employees can access part of their payday in advance.
HonestDoor — Free real estate data on residential and commercial properties - sold prices, estimated value of homes, bed and bath. Exclusive houses for sale

Lance Priebe

Investment focus

eSports, SaaS, Content Delivery Network
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

WTFast — WTFast is here to help you get rid of pesky online gaming problems and bid farewell to Fortnite lag, PUBG lag, Dota 2 lag, CSGO lag, LOL lag and hundred of other games.
PLAYR.gg — Surf Giveaways is the #1 platform to run giveaways, sweepstakes, and contests for gamers. Grow your audience and build your community with giveaways now!
Nurture — Learn Foundational Life Skills Through Immersive Play

Blaine LaBonte

Investment focus

Information Technology, Big Data, Lighting
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

G2V Optics — G2V Optics is an LED solar simulator manufacturer building advanced products for scientific testing - early-stage, research & development, production, or certification.
HonestDoor — Free real estate data on residential and commercial properties - sold prices, estimated value of homes, bed and bath. Exclusive houses for sale
INGU — Currently, inline inspection in the oil and gas sector is a series of staged engineering events, designed to assess the condition of pipeline assets. It is costly, infrequent, and only addresses those lines that are within reach. In fact, it is estimated that 40% of the world’s pipelines are unpiggable. The vulnerabilities between inspections,which are typically years apart, or the inability to conduct inspections at all, puts the world’s aging pipeline infrastructure at risk. In order to address these issues, we have focused on changing the economics, the technology, and the workflow associated with inline inspection. We have introduced the industry’s first self-serve inspection model that eliminates significant engineering and downtime costs. We have developed miniature, multi sensor Pipers® technology that freely flows within any and all active pipelines, regardless of location, condition, material or configuration. This technology is capable of inspecting pipelines as small as 2 inches in diameter, and surveying for leaks, geometric defects, magnetic anomalies, and deposits in a single run. Further, we have reduced the cost of inline inspection by a factor of 10, making it possible for integrity programs to be more present, more often, across all of their assets. Finally, such accessible technology has given us the opportunity to work with a complete range of clients – large and small, private and public – resulting in rich datasets libraries that offer unprecedented contextual analysis and continuous advancement of our data analytics capabilities. Our approach provides clients with uninterrupted access to up-to-date condition-critical data, allowing them to optimize planning, decision-making, and actions.

Lance Tracey - Founding Partner @ Full Stack

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Communities
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Taloflow — Taloflow analyzes 4,000+ vendor data points to provide you with the best possible recommendation for cloud object storage. Complete a 5-minute use case questionnaire to get started.
SceneBox — SceneBox helps computer vision engineers sift through their large datasets to uncover the failure states and interesting data they need to train machine learning models faster.
Quantified Citizen — Join groundbreaking studies, receive rich health insights and make an impact on global health and science. Download Quantified Citizen today!

Ashif Mawji is the Venture Partner at Rising Tide. He attended NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology).

Investment focus

Grocery, Big Data, Lighting
Seed, Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

G2V Optics — G2V Optics is an LED solar simulator manufacturer building advanced products for scientific testing - early-stage, research & development, production, or certification.
HonestDoor — Free real estate data on residential and commercial properties - sold prices, estimated value of homes, bed and bath. Exclusive houses for sale
Kiwi Grocery — Kiwi Grocery cuts out the grocery store and delivers direct to your door. That means you pay less for your groceries and save on costly service fees. Kiwi users save 35% on their grocery checkout totals compared to other delivery apps.

Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
SFA — Lebanon and abroad for its personal account and non-account in all fields of trade and public industry.
TeaLeaf — TeaLeaf is a firm that wants to assist in the distribution of tea.

Marco Schnabl is a Co-Founder & Managing Member at automotiveMastermind, Inc.

Investment focus

SaaS, Sales, Big Data
Seed, Series A
Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

bezahl.de — Bezahl provides digital and automated payment management and solutions.
Statflo — Statflo is the leading business text messaging platform built for front-line teams who want to engage, retain, and grow their customer base.

Jill Rowley is the GTM Advisor and LP at Stage 2 Capital.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Marketing Automation
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Nudge.ai — Affinity is the most powerful relationship intelligence platform enabling teams to leverage their network to close the next big deal. Using patented technology, Affinity manages your relationships by auto-populating your CRM pipeline and unlocking introductions to decision makers.
Vidyard — Go beyond traditional video hosting and unlock the power of video.
Terminus — Drive more revenue with a 360-degree multi-channel experience for your target accounts.

Entrepreneur, investor.

Investment focus

Software, Accounting, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Connect4 — The client-centric platform for you and your team. Consistently deliver outstanding client meetings. Every single time.
E-State Planner — Cloud-based estate planning software - for lawyers by lawyers. Save time, reduce malpractice errors, and improve your service delivery.
Float Financial — All-in-one corporate cards, fast bill payments, reimbursements, and expense management software. Get started today for free.

Nas, byname of Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, also called Nasty Nas, (born September 14, 1973, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.), American rapper and songwriter who became a dominant voice in 1990s East Coast hip-hop. Nas built a reputation as an expressive chronicler of inner-city street life.Nasir Jones, the son of a jazz musician, grew up in public housingin Queens, New York. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade and searched for a creative outlet, finally settling on hip-hop. His breakthrough came in 1992, when his song “Half Time” (credited to Nasty Nas) appeared on the sound track to the film Zebrahead. Columbia Records soon signed him to a contract. His debut recording as Nas, Illmatic (1994), drew widespread acclaim for its poetic narration of hard-edged inner-city life.The more pop-oriented approach of It Was Written (1996) helped that album reach an even wider audience than its predecessor but ignited a recurring tension in Nas’s career between the appetite of the pop audience and the demands of hip-hop purists. He maintained his commercial appeal with I Am... (1999), although by that time he had also become embroiled in a public feud with fellow rapper Jay-Z over which of the two was the preeminent voice in East Coast hip-hop. The schism inspired Stillmatic (2001), which many fans considered a return to form. The two rappers publicly settled their differences in 2005, and shortly thereafter Nas signed with Def Jam, of which Jay-Z was president at the time.Nas’s penchant for provocation marked Hip Hop Is Dead (2006) and an untitled follow-up (2008), while Life Is Good (2012) struck an introspective tone. He also notably collaborated with reggae musician Damian Marley (the youngest son of Bob Marley) on the album Distant Relatives (2010).Nas also made occasional film appearances, notably in Belly (1998), a crime drama in which he starred opposite rapper DMX, and Black Nativity (2013), an adaptation of Langston Hughes’s gospel play.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Magic Spoon — Magic Spoon cereal is high-protein, low-sugar, keto-friendly, and gluten-free. Available in Cocoa, Frosted, Fruity, Blueberry, Peanut Butter, and Cinnamon.
Everyrealm — Leaders in metaverse innovation and development.
Altered State Machine — Altered State Machine, aims to be a platform and protocol which any developer can build on it; can create, own, and compete with AI-based agents (bots) and upgrade and train their AI, buy, and sell them as NFTs. This will bring an evolution for NFTS.

John C. Baker founded Baker Capital in 1995. Mr. Baker has more than 30 years of experience in the private equity industry, leading investments in the technology, telecom and financial service industries. Mr. Baker is a member of the Supervisory Board of Interxion NV (Chairman) and the Board of Wine.com. Additionally, Mr. Baker is a member of theUniversity of Cincinnati Investment Committee. Mr. Baker is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Big Data, Analytics, Education
Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Chalk — Chalk is a planning and analytics platform that enables K-12 schools and districts to develop a cohesive, standards-aligned map for curriculum and instruction. From small, independent schools to large, national school networks, Chalk is behind the academic strategies influencing millions of students.

Zach Coelius - Managing Partner @ Coelius Capital

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Shovels — Shovels provides go-to-market data for the building trades. Shovels tags and ties 100 million building permits with 4 million contractors nationwide so software developers can build products and GTM solutions for the construction industry..
Zenode — AI PreCAD companion tool for Electrical Engineers
OneSignal — OneSignal is a customer messaging and engagement platform that allows businesses to provide a seamless messaging experience to create meaningful customer connections. OneSignal's multi-channel platform enables businesses to deliver over 8 billion messages daily. OneSignal is designed to scale with businesses and deliver messages more quickly.The platform leverages machine learning to send communications at the optimal time by creating personalized messages and send them to the right audiences by comparing performance, enabling clients to deliver engaging mobile and web push messages across all platforms.

Nick is a co-founder and CEO at Aislelabs. Before Aislelabs, Nick co-founded Sysomos, a leading provider of social media analytics. Sysomos is used by enterprise users and digital marketers around the globe, including 70% of the Fortune 50 companies.Nick is also on the faculty at the University of Toronto's computer science department. Heholds several patents, and has published more than 100 research publications in the areas of big data analytics, information mining and searching. Nick serves on the editorial review boards of several international scientific journals in field of data management. Prior to joining the university, he was a member of AT&T's research staff.Nick is an active angel investor and mentor to several startups, including at the Creative Destruction Lab at the Rotman School of Business. Nick holds a PhD from the University of Toronto.

Investment focus

SaaS, Big Data, Hardware
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Nymi — Nymi provides a new paradigm for connecting people to their workplace on a platform, which streamlines work securely across different networks and environments. Passwordless, contactless, handsfree.
Granify — Granify is an e-commerce conversion and revenue optimization technology powered by machine learning that regularly brings top retailers 3%-5% uplift.

Johannes Gnauck is co-CEO and Founder of automotiveMastermind (Mastermind),where he focuses on Big Data analysis and behavior prediction technology. With a strong background in the automotive retail world, Gnauck recognized an opportunity to improve and enhance sales at automotive dealerships. He was instrumental in the conception and developmentof the Mastermind technology, which is now the leading provider of predictive analytics and marketing automation technology for the automotive industry. He founded Mastermind with Marco Schnabl in September 2012 with the goal of transforming the car buying and selling process by empowering automotive sales teams with key insights and valuable information on its top prospects. Mastermind is now a leading predictive analytics and marketing automation technology for automotive dealerships. Prior to founding Mastermind, Gnauck worked for more than 10 years in the automotive sales industry. He served nine years in sales at Mercedes-Benz in Stuttgart, Germany and at its flagship location in Manhattan. Previously, he served as a Master Certified Sales Consultant at Daimler AG in Germany. Gnauck holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Automotive Marketing and Management from Northwood University. He also holds a degree from a Federal University of Business Administration in Germany, with a focus on the automotive industry. Gnauck works out of Mastermind's New York City headquarters and plays an integral role in utilizing Big Data analytics to further enhance the Mastermind technology. He is fluent in German and English.

Investment focus

SaaS, Sales, Big Data
Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Statflo — Statflo is the leading business text messaging platform built for front-line teams who want to engage, retain, and grow their customer base.

Jim is a 30-year veteran of the Canadian venture capital industry. He has participated actively across all funding stages from being part of founding management through personal angel investment, institutional venture capital, corporate venture investment and a variety of public and private exits. He has also been actively involved in numerouspublic policy initiatives designed to foster a healthy Canadian environment for early-stage companies and venture capital investors.Jim has been a Managing Director with Ventures West and Chrysalix Energy Management, overseen corporate venture investing as Treasurer of MacMillan Bloedel, and was founder and CEO of China Capital, CFO of the Angus Reid Group, and a Director of many technology companies. He currently chairs the Boards of Vision Critical Communications Inc., Recombo Inc. and Tyze Personal Networks Inc., and is a member of the Advisory Board of OMERS Ventures.Jim is also actively involved in the non-profit and social enterprise sector. He was a founding partner of BC Technology Social Venture Partners, has served on many other non-profit Boards and is engaged in public policy initiatives to enhance social innovation and finance.

Investment focus

Mobile, Apps, News
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Shelfie — Shelfie is an app that connects readers and books. Shelfie lets readers digitize their paper book collections, get free or discounted ebooks of the books they own and discover their next reads.Shelfie has signed deals with over 600 publishers allowing users to download an eBook if they own a print edition for nearly 150,000 titles. Readers justtake a picture of their bookshelf (a "shelfie") and the app will identify and catalog all of their books and let them know which ones are eligible for bundling.
A&K Robotics — A&K Robotics | Autonomous Vehicle Systems
ePACT Network — ePACT's emergency forms automation helps you keep recreation programs running safely. Secure EHR, waivers, COVID-19 screening, contactless check-in and emergency communications ensure compliance while reducing the chaos and cost. Exclusive NRPA partner.

Auren Hoffman is the CEO and Chief Historian of SafeGraph and he was the CEO of Rapleaf. Auren holds a B.S.E. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the UC Berkeley. He writes a blog called Summation.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Ex Parte — Ex Parte uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing to give customers the information they need to make better decisions and achieve a competitive advantage. Consider it Moneyball for a market that is >20 times the size of Major League Baseball.
CalypsoAI — CalypsoAI combines industry-leading AI testing and human-in-the-loop decision making to give you the confidence you need to push AI projects into production.
Sincera — Sincera provides novel signal data to the most innovative companies in advertising technology.

Nilesh is co-founder and CTO of Aislelabs and he leads the product development and engineering. Before Aislelabs, Nilesh co-founded Sysomos in 2007. Sysomos went on to become the most advanced social media analytics platform of its kind, serving 70% of the Fortune 50 enterprises, and was later acquired in 2010. Nilesh is also an angel investorand advisor to a number of startups and incubators including Extreme Startups, MaRS Jolt, Bionym, and Granify. Nilesh has significant experience in building robust and scalable software systems, data management platforms and big data analytics solutions. Nilesh's work has appeared in leading research forums worldwide.Nilesh holds a PhD, Computer Science from the University of Toronto, and a B.Tech. Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay.

Investment focus

SaaS, Big Data, Hardware
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Nymi — Nymi provides a new paradigm for connecting people to their workplace on a platform, which streamlines work securely across different networks and environments. Passwordless, contactless, handsfree.
Granify — Granify is an e-commerce conversion and revenue optimization technology powered by machine learning that regularly brings top retailers 3%-5% uplift.

A partner with iNovia Capital, Shawn Abbott has a passion for building Internet & communications start-up companies. Shawn is an investor and board member at Top Hat Monocle, CoolIT Systems, Peraso and Reflex Photonics. He has played entrepreneur, investor, technical and general management roles across two dozen technology start-ups in threecontinents over two decades.His work pioneering internet security as CTO, then President, at Rainbow Technologies (NASDAQ:RNBO) saw the company grow ten-fold in profitability before being sold to SafeNet (NASDAQ:SFNT) for nearly a half billion dollars. In the late 1980s, he established and built the AND Group, which pioneered the CD-ROM locking used on several million discs. He is an accomplished public speaker, having presented at more than one hundred conferences on digital security and entrepreneurism, and taught software design courses internationally. He is chair of theA100.org, past chair of the Banff Venture Forum and on the Venture Capital Association of Alberta executive.He holds an early patent as one of the inventors of now popular USB keys. His publications include a chapter on hardware cryptography in the ICSA Guide to Cryptography. Shawn earned his Bachelor’s of Science in physics at the University of Alberta and has done postgraduate study at the University of Calgary, Stanford, and UC Irvine. Shawn is also an active rotary wing pilot.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Credit App — Credit App is a fintech company that operates a credit application platform. The platform is designed to manage billions of applications, ranging from automotive to residential rentals. It provides a secure and efficient way for consumers to apply for credit. The company also offers tools and capabilities that enable lenders of all sizes to processapplications. In addition to serving online lenders and automotive dealerships, Credit App also caters to residential landlords, providing a comprehensive solution for credit application management.
PayShepherd — PayShepherd helps manage contractor billing for industrial facilities and simplifies billing processes. Save time, money, and headaches.
Two Hat Security — Community Sift product page.

Nitesh Banta is the Co-Founder & CEO at B12.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Protege — Protege is the platform for AI Training Data. Protege works with data holders and model builders to empower them to share training data for AI model development.
Chai Discovery — Building frontier artificial intelligence to predict and reprogram the interactions between biochemical molecules.
Draftboard — Refer your friends, community and following with our hiring platform, and get paid when they get hired! Start referring (or hiring!) now!

Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
TravelTales — TravelTales is a platform that connects travelers with local guides who offer personalized.
Mancano And Associates — Mancano and Associates is a staffing firm that offers services in the banking, financial, telecommunications and Infrastructure industries.

Paul Buchheit co-founded social network aggregator FriendFeed, along with three other former Google employees. He is also an investor in FriendFeed and participated in a $5 million Series A round in February 2008.He was the 23rd employee at Google, where he created Gmail and implemented many of its innovative features. He developed the originalprototype of Google AdSense, and was responsible for Google's famous "Don't be evil" motto in a meeting.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

SiPhox Health — SiPhox Health brings comprehensive, at-home blood testing to your door! Take control of your disease risk and increase your healthspan today with affordable, convenient at-home blood testing. No lab visits, no appointments, no waiting in line.
Character.ai — Chat with millions of AI Characters anytime, anywhere. Super-intelligent chat bots that hear you, understand you, and remember you. Free to use with no ads.
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.

Bart helps companies scale globally and has been active in the technology sector for more than fifteen years as an entrepreneur, mentor, and executive. Previously he was the Chairman of Summly (sold to Yahoo), COO at Badoo, an MD International at GSI Commerce (sold to eBay), a GM at Amazon.com (helping lead the international expansion from1998-2001), and was an MD at EMI Music Europe. Bart received an MBA from The Wharton School, an MA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, was a Fellow at the Lauder Institute, and has a BA in History from the University of Southern California.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Certn — Thousands of companies worldwide rely on Certn's integrated background screening to secure the right people with an 80% reduced time to hire.
Laced — Discover the latest sneaker releases with Laced. The UK and Europe's authentic sneaker marketplace, discover coveted styles from Nike, Air Jordan, Yeezy, New Balance and more. Buy and sell now with Laced.
Part3 — Part3 simplifies construction administration for architects and engineers. Leverage AI to collaborate on submittals, RFIs, changes, field reporting & more.

Jean François Grenon brings more than 25 years of expertise in the telecom and wireless space. Prior to forming Vectrad Networks and then NTF-Capital in 2003, Jean-François was Chairman and CEO of Innova Corporation, a company he led folllowing its listing on the NASDAQ.Jean-François graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal andholds a Harvard Business School MBA.He sits on the board of several innovation driven corporations including Inter-Mobile S.A.S, a NexTFund portfolio company.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Computer
Seed, Series A, Angel
Canada

Portfolio highlights

PlayFitt — PlayFitt is a fitness platform using experience in Sports Analytics, Machine Learning, Video Games.
IntelliSports — IntelliSports is a Montreal based technology company that is combining real world sports with a digitally engaging experience and A.I. to create real world gaming.At IntelliSports they firmly believe that getting healthy should be as much fun as Levelling Up in your favourite video game. They are using their experience in Sports Analytics, MachineLearning, Video Games and mass market consumer technology to create a fitness platform where users can train, group up, compete and enjoy many of the most engaging elements of modern video games.
Sollum Technologies — Sollum Technologies is offers greenhouse producers the only smart LED lighting solution which dynamically reproduces the full spectrum of the sun’s natural light. It is based in Montréal (Québec, Canada), where its design, development and manufacturing activities are concentrated. It works closely with its clients to modulate and create recipesadapted to the growth cycle of each product, regardless of its native climate in the world and the location of the greenhouse. Sollum’s lighting solutions thereby provide unparalleled value in terms of energy savings, productivity and superior produce quality through a flexible, adaptive and easy-to-use application, with great respect for the environment.

Craig Coblenz was one of Facebook’s first sales executives and among the company’s first 100 employees. As Director of Media Sales, Coblenz was responsible for monetizing the plaform through partnerships with Fortune 100 brands.Coblenz consulted top brands on how to best leverage Facebook and the broader social/digital space to accomplishadvertising and marketing objectives.Prior to Facebook, Coblenz was Regional Vice President of Partner Marketing at Cendant, Inc. and before Cendant he was with InterActiveCorp (IAC). Earlier in Mr. Coblenz career he joined UrbanBaby, a two person start-up in NY founded by Susan and John Maloney, where he was responsible sales and business development. UrbanBaby was eventually acquired by CNET.Since departing Facebook Coblenz has been an active Angel Investor and Advisor to a number of start-ups including Tykoon, Stockr, Swell, ThingLink, rfactr, and Savveo. Craig’s primary area of interest and focus as an Advisor is in ad products, monetization, and sales/business development.

Investment focus

Apps, Communities, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Skymarker — Skymarker Labs is a seed-funded digital studio that develops mobile apps with a social bent. Sometimes we incubate our own mobile ventures from the ground up. Other times, we create new mobile businesses in collaboration with partners and clients from from the worlds of entertainment, retail, sports and media. The location-based curation app WANT!was beta tested in 2012, and an angel-funded stealth venture, incubated at Skymarker, will be spun out and launched in q4 2013.
ThingLink — Easily create interactive and immersive visual experiences for online communication and learning. Start a free trial!
Two Hat Security — Community Sift product page.

Rian combines his years of experience with law firm IT with his in-depth software development experience to help create software law firms love to use.

Investment focus

Big Data, Hardware, Software
Seed, Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Plantiga — Plantiga combines smart insoles and 1:1 coaching to keep you moving at your best - in sport, training and life.
Minutebook — Simplify corporate records management. The only equity platform you need for lawyers, company builders, employees and investors

Jim Spatz is the Chairman and CEO of Southwest Properties Limited, one of Atlantic Canada’s leading real estate developers. Southwest owns, operates and develops residential and commercial real estate in Atlantic Canada, extended stay accommodations across Canada, as well as a multi-unit residential portfolios in four Florida cities.

Investment focus

Sports, Big Data, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Brizi — Brizi powers fan experiences and sponsorship activations using innovative crowd-controlled camera technology in-stadium.
Grüvi — Gruvi is a line of craft brewed alcohol-free beers & wines.
Harbr — Every external contractor brings their own software and process. Let Harbr reconcile your entire portfolio's data in one central place to bring analytics and insights like never before.

Adam Caplan is a Co-Founding Partner at ID8 Investments, an investment firm focused on partnering with next generation disruptive consumer and technology companies.Adam has more than twenty years of financing, investing and executive experience spanning a variety of sectors including consumer products & services, CPG marketing, fintech, dataanalytics, gaming and digital advertising. From 2014 to 2018, Adam was President at PINCHme.com Inc., where he helped build a leading consumer product sampling and digital marketing platform for CPG manufacturers such as P&G, Kraft, Kellogg’s and L'Oréal. PINCHme listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in October 2018.Prior to PINCHme, he was a Co-Founder & President at ARM Insight, Inc., a provider of financial data business intelligence solutions for financial institutions, payment processors, investment companies, and retail corporations. ARM Insight was named a Top 10 Alternative Data Solutions Provider for 2018 by Capital Markets CIO Outlook.Previously, as President at Super Rewards, Adam helped build a leading social gaming monetization and virtual currency platform which reached $100 million in annual transaction revenue before selling to Adknowledge, Inc. in 2009. Following the acquisition of Super Rewards, Adam served as Vice President of Virtual Currency at Adknowledge for two years.Prior to working in technology, Adam was an investment banker with Morgan Stanley for eleven years, advising internet & media companies with public and private financing as well as strategic M&A transactions. Adam received a BComm (Hons) and an LLB (Hons) from The University of Melbourne.

Investment focus

SaaS, Big Data, Analytics
Seed, Funding Round
Canada, Luxembourg

Portfolio highlights

Granify — Granify is an e-commerce conversion and revenue optimization technology powered by machine learning that regularly brings top retailers 3%-5% uplift.
Skippet — Build & customize apps and business workflows, using plain language
StartupFuel — Experience cutting-edge AI-powered solutions for startup and venture capital due diligence. Our innovative technology empowers investors with intelligent insights, comprehensive analysis, and risk assessment to make informed investment decisions.

Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

GALY — Saving Our Planet by Transitioning the World to Cellular Agriculture
Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
Zest Protocol — Zest Protocol enables users to put their Bitcoin to work. Earn more BTC, or borrow against your BTC.

Güimar is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor as well as Venture Partner at FJ Labs.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

rintin — rintin is a B2B marketplace that connects small independent retailers with curated emerging brands.
Lara AI — Helping leaders maximize the employee experience in a personalized manner
Thingtesting — Explore thousands of new online brands and share your honest reviews so everyone on the internet can shop better. Discover the best brands in personal care, home decor, clothing, food, tech and more.

Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Alpagga — Alpagga is the online marketplace for purchase and sale of decommissioned agri-food equipments.
OTPless — Explore top-notch authentication solutions like WhatsApp, SMS or email-based Numeric codes and Magic Link with OTPless. High conversion, flexible integrations, and robust security features await you!
PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.

Marc Altshuller is the President and CEO at Varicent. He attended Schulich School of Business - York University.

Investment focus

Mobile, Apps, Health Care
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Ritual — Delivery & takeout from the best local restaurants. Providing over 15,000 restaurants globally with digital solutions to help them serve up their best.
Plasticity Labs — Plasticity offers predictive workforce analytics and reporting on the health, happiness and productivity of people and teams. Based on the findings of the Workforce Analytics, customers can turn on the complete platform which includes personal behavioral training to optimize people and build better habits aimed at improving the predictedperformance scoring and helping people to better handle the realities of work and life. Plasticity is the only workforce analytics engine that combines explicit employee data, company performance data, and open data to understand and predict the full range of effects on the employee's ability to perform at their best. Connect your HRIS, HCM, or CRM and start actually measuring the ROI of people and culture, health and wellness, and learn how the weather might effect your next quarters results.
Tacit Innovations — Digital ordering done right. With Tacit Corporation, you can get more orders by offering a seamless digital ordering experience.

Erik Peterson is the Founder at DormTrader.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A
United States, Canada, Algeria

Portfolio highlights

Hideout — Hideout makes high-quality food that is available for delivery. Danielle Sobel established the company in Los Angeles, California.
Abalone Bio — Our Functional Antibody Selection Technology platform (FAST) taps into the potential of the body's biological activities, expanding the reach of antibody drugs.
Altay Therapeutics — Altay Therapeutics is a biotech company focused on finding and discovering small molecule therapies for chronic inflammatory conditions. It is currently focused on finding curative therapies for fibrosis, NASH, and liver cancer. It develops novel small molecule drugs against transcriptional regulators that are validated drivers of disease. It wasfounded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Ty Danco is an entrepreneur and angel investor out of Burlington, VT and Boston, MA. He founded eSecLending in 2000, sold to TA Associates in 2006. He co-founded BuysideFX in late 2011. More on Ty can be found at http:linkedin.com/in/tydanco.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Mobile
Seed, Angel
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Brizi — Brizi powers fan experiences and sponsorship activations using innovative crowd-controlled camera technology in-stadium.
Voatz — Voatz uses cutting edge technology to enable secure and accessible mobile voting from anywhere.
OffGridBox — An all-in-one system using solar energy to purify water and distribute clean energy. off grid container, offgrid water, off-grid electric products, solar water box, building off grid, power in a box, off grid technology, shipping container solar system

Boris Wertz is the Founder & General Partner of Version One Ventures. He previously worked at Ether Capital as a Lead Independent director. Boris Wertz attended the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Helcim Inc. — Helcim is a payments company that lets businesses accept credit cards with ease. Helcim focuses on delivering a better payment service by making it easier to sign up, providing smarter payment tools, and making it more affordable to get paid.
Agora — Agora operates as a cross-chain governance platform.
Syndicate — Infrastructure for powerful web3 products at scale

President at XOSoft.

Investment focus

SaaS, Big Data, Analytics
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Granify — Granify is an e-commerce conversion and revenue optimization technology powered by machine learning that regularly brings top retailers 3%-5% uplift.

3X Founder of Earnest, SolidEnergy, and now working on the next one. Formerly a16z and YC. Active angel investor and board member.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

TokerBud — TokerBud is your premier destination for top-quality cannabis products. Specializing in a wide range of options from classic strains to exotic blends, we ensure a seamless and secure online shopping experience. Our commitment to quality and customer satisfaction makes us the go-to source for all your cannabis needs.
UberPlug — UberPlug is your premier destination for top-quality cannabis products. Specializing in a wide range of options from classic strains to exotic blends, we ensure a seamless and secure online shopping experience. Our commitment to quality and customer satisfaction makes us the go-to source for all your cannabis needs.
OnRamp — Move onboarding projects along faster by putting customers at the center of a simple, guided experience. OnRamp is the customer onboarding platform built for customer success and implementation teams.

CEO - Bloglovin' (www.bloglovin.com). Mobile veteran, angel investor with focus on consumer mobile and e-commerce companies

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Granify — Granify is an e-commerce conversion and revenue optimization technology powered by machine learning that regularly brings top retailers 3%-5% uplift.
Sellbrite — Sellbrite Multi-Channel Listing Software
Tablelist — Provides instant access to VIP bottle service, private tables and exclusive events in a growing number of cities across the country.

James is the president and co-owner of Valentis International Inc, an Edmonton-based IoT and technology consulting company with clients across Western Canada. James has 28 years of experience in the telecommunications, Electric Utility, and Oil & Gas industries.

Investment focus

Big Data, Aerospace, Geospatial
Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Wyvern — Wyvern was created to unlock the secrets of the elec-tromagnetic spectrum by providing groundbreak-ing access to high-resolution and quality imagery.This will enable a sustainable future for humanity.

Amadeo Brenninkmeijer - Senior Partner @ inPositiv

Investment focus

Information Technology, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

ProcessOut — Route transactions, analyze and report on your entire payment ecosystem and switch on providers in one click. Trusted by leading brands.
SkyWatch — SkyWatch makes it easy, fast, and affordable to buy commercial satellite imagery for your geospatial needs.
Little Black Door — Little Black Door, LBD - The Social Wardrobe A free wardrobe sharing application that enables its users to upload their wardrobe, interact with their fashion items & share them on social networks We’re out to disrupt the way in which we engage with our fashion assets.

Michael Volker is an entrepreneur active in the development of new high technology ventures. A University of Waterloo Engineering grad, Mike started his own company (Volker-Craig Ltd) in 1973. He sold this company in 1981 and then decided to work with entrepreneurs in building new companies. He is presently the director of Simon Fraser University’sInnovation Office.His latest two projects are: Greenangel Energy Corp, [GAE.V] a public company that invests in green technologies and WUTIF – the Western Universities Technology Innovation Fund – an “angel” fund for start-ups. To further encourage tech entrepreneurship, Mike runs the Vancouver Angel Network, VANTEC and he’s also quite active with New Ventures BC – an annual business competition. Mike was also chairman of the Vancouver Enterprise Forum for several years.

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile, Big Data
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Shelfie — Shelfie is an app that connects readers and books. Shelfie lets readers digitize their paper book collections, get free or discounted ebooks of the books they own and discover their next reads.Shelfie has signed deals with over 600 publishers allowing users to download an eBook if they own a print edition for nearly 150,000 titles. Readers justtake a picture of their bookshelf (a "shelfie") and the app will identify and catalog all of their books and let them know which ones are eligible for bundling.
Pocketed — Pocketed aims to help eliminate financial barriers for entrepreneurs through its platform, which connects businesses to eligible grants and tax credits, and helps them apply for these opportunities through its marketplace.

Ryan Holmes is the CEO and Founder of HootSuite. Thought leader, dog lover and serial entrepreneur, he has redefined the face of social media - bringing Twitter, Facebook and other social networks out of the dorm room and into the boardroom.Holmes has grown HootSuite from a lean startup to a global leader in social media with 8 million users,including 79 of the Fortune 100 companies. A college drop-out, he started a paintball company and pizza restaurant before founding Invoke Media, the company that developed HootSuite in 2009.Today, Holmes is an authority on the social business revolution, quoted in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal and called upon to speak at TEDx and SXSW Interactive Conferences. An angel investor and advisor, he mentors startups in Canada and around the world. Through HootSuite University, Holmes partners with major universities to deliver social media coursework to the next generation of business leaders.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Truss — Send and receive business payments online with no limits, no percentage fees and no bullsh*t. Bring your business payments into the 21st century.
Surf — Surf for Brands allows you to generate the highest quality first party data, with consumer opt-in options. Generate ethical, high quality data now - Learn more
Kiwi Grocery — Kiwi Grocery cuts out the grocery store and delivers direct to your door. That means you pay less for your groceries and save on costly service fees. Kiwi users save 35% on their grocery checkout totals compared to other delivery apps.

Jerry Neumann is the Founder and Venture Capitalist at Neu Venture Capital.

Investment focus

Advertising, Mobile, Analytics
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Sila — A new financial world, built by you. The Money API for Fintech.
Lately — Lately uses AI to create your social media content and manage your social media marketing and social selling programs.
Practice — Sell your expertise online, and manage your business, all in one place.

Michael Dornbrook Member of the Board of Directors at Modulate.ai. He attended University of Chicago during 1981-1983.

Investment focus

Mobile, Health Care, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Modulate — Modulate uses revolutionary machine learning to proactively detect and escalate toxic behavior in your game. ToxMod becomes an expert in your code of conduct and empowers your moderators to make the right decisions to protect your community from the worst behavior happening in voice chat in real time.
Hearo.Live - Multiplayer TV — Laugh, talk, and cheer with friends while watching YouTube, Netflix, ESPN, and more in full-screen HD, like you're on a big cozy couch together. #MultiplayerTV #TheFutureOfTogether
UptimeHealth — UptimeHealth, headquartered in Boston, MA, is a fast-growing software startup that simplifies medical device service events, purchases, and compliance practices through automation and predictive analytics.

Jonathan James

Investment focus

SaaS, Big Data, Analytics
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Granify — Granify is an e-commerce conversion and revenue optimization technology powered by machine learning that regularly brings top retailers 3%-5% uplift.

Tom Williams

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Unito — Unito keeps your data in sync between multiple tools so everyone is always up-to-date in real-time.
Delphia — Invest with your data, not your money.
NorthOne — NorthOne is an online Business Account with built-in features to make business banking fast and easy. No overdraft fees. No minimum balance. No hidden fees.

Jevon MacDonald is the Co-Founder at StartupNorth.

Investment focus

Software, Predictive Analytics, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Shakepay — Shakepay allows Canadians to buy/sell bitcoin and pay their friends. We're on a mission to create open access to building wealth.
Cape — Domain-specific AI for financial firms to 10x productivity
Platformatic — OpenSource Platform for ...

Tidhar Carmeli

Investment focus

Big Data, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Movia — Mobile billboard truck advertising boosts your brand awareness that can add value to the growth of your business. Feel free to create a truck advertising campaign at Movia.
Parabola — Parabola is your toolkit for faster, smarter work. Automate any manual task you usually do in a spreadsheet.
Immersed — We immerse distributed teams into the same VR workplace to maximize productivity.

Stephen Ufford has founded and successfully sold several data-focused startups during his career. In 2011, he launched Trulioo to help build a layer of trust and safety online, and with the mission to provide access to financial services to the billions of unbanked individuals around the globe. As a serial tech entrepreneur in the identity space,Stephen is well versed on the challenges and opportunities affiliated with identity verification, data privacy, risk and fraud prevention, and the ever-changing regulatory changes that impact emerging startups and global enterprises that have customers worldwide.

Investment focus

Finance, Privacy, Big Data
Angel
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Trulioo — Trulioo is the leader in global identity verification, providing real-time online identity proofing for more than 5 billion people in 195-plus countries.

Jared Kopf has served as a member of our board of directors since May 2015 and has been a private investor in technology companies since 2009.Previously he was the Vice President in Product Innovation and Corporate Strategy for Rearden Commerce, Inc., a provider of online consumer and business-oriented commerce services, from September 2011 toMay 2012 and the Founder and CEO of HomeRun.com, a members-only online social buying club, from November 2009 through August 2011.Prior to founding HomeRun.com, Kopf co-founded AdRoll, Inc., an advertising technology company, in 2006, where he served as CEO from March 2006 to March 2009 and President from March 2009 to January 2010.Kopf also served as a co-founder of Slide, Inc., a social media application developer, from 2005 to 2006.Kopf received a B.A. from Stanford University. He currently serves on the board and is Chairman of AdRoll.

Investment focus

SaaS, Big Data, Internet
Seed, Series B, Angel
United States, China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Wove — Wove envisions a world where brands grow together. To support this vision, Wove is building the world’s largest network for marketing partnerships, where trusted brands reach each other’s loyal customers and make them their own - all while protecting consumer privacy. With backing from August Capital, Partech, and Origin Ventures, Wove enablesbrands to transform their marketing efforts by unlocking the power of other brands' data.
Swiftype — Swiftype is a cloud-based search platform that provides all the tools you need to create fantastic search experiences.
Automatic — Automatic's mission is to empower drivers with knowledge about themselves and their cars so they can be safer and drive smarter. Automatic believes that drivers should not have to buy a new car to have a better driving experience, and that the phone in their pocket can bring the future of driving to today's automobiles.Automatic isbased in San Francisco, California, but its team comes from every corner of the world. The team obsesses about creating beautiful and well-engineered products that make a real difference in people's lives. Its members are big on ideas, low on ego, and love working together.

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