# Top 50 Big Data Angel Investors in Canada in June 2026

## Lance Tracey
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, Communities

Lance Tracey - Founding Partner @ Full Stack

## Sanders Lee
- Type: Angel
- Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Big Data, Software

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.

## Markus Frind
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Retail, FinTech, Financial Services

Markus Frind

## Yousif Al-Dujaili
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

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## Lance Priebe
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: eSports, SaaS, Big Data

Lance Priebe

## Ashif Mawji
- Type: Angel
- Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Grocery, Big Data, Lighting

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

## Blaine LaBonte
- Type: Angel
- Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Big Data, Lighting

Blaine LaBonte

## Giordano Contestabile
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, SaaS, Software

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

## Erik Peterson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, SaaS

Erik Peterson is the Founder at DormTrader.

## Tom Williams
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Financial Services

Tom Williams

## Nitesh Banta
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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

## Adam Caplan
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Big Data, Analytics

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.

## Jacky Chen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Jacky is dedicated to angel investment and has built up a portfolio of more than thirty startup companies in Canada and the US. His target investments are the early-stage B2B companies with disruptive technologies and business potential in enterprise software, information technologies, MedTech, and Advanced Manufacturing.Jacky has acquiredconcrete business experiences as a successful founder in the startup ecosystem and an executive of Fortune 500 companies over two decades. His remarkable accomplishments range from building startups from scratch to leading a billion-dollar business with the leverage of 14,000 enterprise channel partners. The unique journey has shaped Jacky's outstanding of investing in early startups.Jacky holds the degrees of Mater's E.E. and MBA, and he graduated from CEIBS and The Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania.

## Lee Lau
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Wearables, Internet of Things

Lee Lau is a Partner and Co-Founder of Alignvest Management Corporation. Mr. Lau co-founded ATI Technologies in 1985 and built the company into one of the world’s largest supplier of graphic chips and add-in boards to the personal computer industry. In addition to managing the company, Mr. Lau was ATI’s largest shareholder, first employee andresponsible for innovation and development of all products. Mr. Lau helped build ATI into a TSX and NASDAQ listed global market leader, with annual sales in excess of $2.2 billion and over 3,000 employees. ATI was sold in 2006 to Advanced Micro Devices for cash and stock consideration of $5.3 billion. Since then, Mr. Lau has managed his family office investing in a variety of alternative asset products. Prior to founding ATI, Mr. Lau held various design engineering positions with Mitel, Motorola and Plessey.Mr. Lau holds a Masters in Engineering and a BASc from the University of Toronto.

## Tim Draper
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

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

## Dave McClure
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

Dave McClure is the founder of Practical Venture Capital and has been an investor and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley for over twenty-five years. Previously he was the founding partner of 500 Startups, a global VC firm and startup accelerator with over $500M in assets under management. Dave has invested in hundreds of companies around the world,including more than 15 unicorns and 5 IPOs. He was named by Forbes as one of the top VCs in the world in 2016 and 2017 (Forbes Midas List). Before 500 Startups, Dave worked at Founders Fund and PayPal, and he graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in 1988 with a BS in engineering and applied mathematics.

## Jim Fletcher
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Mobile, Apps, News

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.

## Jonathan James
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Big Data, Analytics

Jonathan James

## Bashar Hamood
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce

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

## Zach Coelius
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Zach Coelius - Managing Partner @ Coelius Capital

## Fabrice Grinda
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet

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.

## Jared Kopf
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Big Data, FinTech

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.

## Stephen Ufford
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Finance, Privacy, Big Data

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.

## Nilesh Bansal
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Big Data, Hardware

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.

## Marco Schnabl
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Sales, Big Data

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

## Matt Mickiewicz
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Human Resources, Internet, Software

Matt Mickiewicz is an internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of SitePoint. Mickiewicz also co-founded the web companies Flippa, 99designs, and Hired.Born in Kraków, Poland, living in Hameln -Germany, and currently residing in Vancouver, Canada, Mickiewicz created his first website at the age of 14 called Webmaster-Resources.com, whichlater became SitePoint. At 16, Mickiewicz traveled to Melbourne with his mother and met his soon-to-be business partner and co-founder, Mark Harbottle. At 16, Mickiewicz found himself closing $10,000 advertising deals between classes at high school. Mickiewicz barely finished high school and did not attend college.In 2008, Mickiewicz spun off 99designs from SitePoint, which went on to raise $35 million in capital from Accel Ventures, Michael Dearing / Harrison Metal, Dave Goldberg (SurveyMonkey), Anthony Casalena, and Stewart Butterfield (Flickr). In June 2009 Mickiewicz and Harbottle launched Flippa.com, the largest marketplace for buying and selling websites in the world. In the fall of 2012, Mickiewicz co-founded DeveloperAuction.com which raised $2.7 million was later renamed Hired. The company later raised a $15 million Series-A round in March 2014. By December 2014, Hired was reportedly valued at $200m and had raised an additional $15m in the capital in its Series B round.Mickiewicz was named a 30 Under 30 Entrepreneur by Forbes and INC in 2011, a Smart Company 30 under 30 in 2012, and frequently speaks at conferences and seminars worldwide.

## Shawn Abbott
- Type: Angel
- Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

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.

## Paul Buchheit
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce

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.

## Jim Spatz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Sports, Big Data, Software

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.

## Bart Swanson
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Artificial 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.

## Jean-François Grenon
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Computer

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.

## Ty Danco
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Mobile

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.

## Boris Wertz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Payments

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.

## Amadeo Brenninkmeijer
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, E-Commerce, Internet

Amadeo Brenninkmeijer - Senior Partner @ inPositiv

## Michael Volker
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, Big Data

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.

## Tom O'Connell
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Big Data, Analytics

President at XOSoft.

## Rian Gauvreau
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Big Data, Hardware, Software

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.

## Stephen Wong
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Big Data, Database, Analytics

Stephen Wong

## Marc Altshuller
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Mobile, Apps, Health Care

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

## Jill Rowley
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: B2B, SaaS, Marketing Automation

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

## Johannes Gnauck
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Sales, Big Data

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.

## Hesham Zreik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Craig Coblenz
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, SaaS, Mobile

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.

## Ryan Holmes
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

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.

## Aditya Bali
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Sports, Fitness, Big Data

I build products and companies that impact daily lives and want to bring these ideas to life as fast as possible. I also advise, mentor and invest in startups to help others makes this a reality. Currently COO of KitchenMate, where we're on a mission to enable access of nutritious meals for everyone (Techstars Toronto 2018).Formerly theco-founder of BufferBox (uWaterloo Velocity, Y Combinator S'12, acquired by Google) and PM @ Google X - Robotics.

## James Freeman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Big Data, Aerospace, Geospatial

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.

## Auren Hoffman
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Analytics, Mobile

CEO, NQB8,  Chm, SafeGraph. GP, Flex Capital. Fmr CEO of LiveRamp. Follow @auren

## Tidhar Carmeli
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Big Data, Software, SaaS

Tidhar Carmeli

## Güimar Vaca Sittic
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet

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

## Nick Koudas
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Big Data, Hardware

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.

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