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Top 50 Blockchain Angel Investors in Canada in February 2025

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

Top 50 Blockchain Angel Investors in Canada in February 2025

Investor	Blockchain Canada investments
Balaji Srinivasan	6
William Mougayar	3
Meltem Demirors	3
Bryan Rosenblatt	3
Jack Herrick	2
Anthony Sassano	2
Matt Bellamy	2
Josh Nussbaum	2
Chris Gonsalves	2
Jeff Morris Jr.	2
Tinie Tempah	2
Mai Fujimoto	2
Sandeep Nailwal	2
Richard Dai	2
Mark Pincus	2
Michael Dunworth	2
Steve Huffman	2
Kain Warwick	2
Rasool Rayani	2
Avichal Garg	2
Damon Gura	1
Karel Vuong	1
See eun ha eun ha	1
Mathieu Baril	1
Alex Adelman	1
Andrew Izyumov	1
David Hariri	1
Josh Stech	1
Lance Tracey	1
Luke Barwikowski	1
Pavan Katepalli	1
Jamie King	1
Rabindra Shrestha	1
Patricia Mora	1
David Zhang	1
Fred Ehrsam	1
Holly Liu	1
Joseph Lallouz	1
Hart Lambur	1
Kevin O'Leary	1
Snow K.	1
Aaron Henshaw	1
Jason Kim	1
Mike Murchison	1
Omar Shakeeb	1
Mariano Conti	1
Regan Bozman	1
Robert Halpern	1
Alexander Pack	1
Larry Sukernik	1

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Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the co-founder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

The Arena — Arena. social is a cutting-edge SocialFi platform that is revolutionizing how content producers interact, network, and make money from their work.
Lica World — Hire Lica, AI Video Producer for Product, Sales, And Customer Success Teams
OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.

William Mougayar is a Toronto-based investor, researcher, blogger, and best-selling author of The Business Blockchain (Wiley, 2016). He is a direct participant in the crypto-technology market, working alongside startups, entrepreneurs, pioneers, leaders, innovators, creators, enterprise executives and practitioners.William is the generalpartner at Virtual Capital Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund, and currently on the Board of Directors of OB1, the OpenBazaar open source protocol that is pioneering decentralized peer-to-peer commerce, a Board Advisor to the Ethereum Foundation, a member of OMERS Ventures Board of Advisors, an Advisory Board member to the Coin Center and Bloq. He blogs regularly about the present and future of blockchains at Startup Management.Previously, he held senior positions at Hewlett-Packard, Cognizant and Aberdeen Group, and he founded 3 startups, CYBERManagement, Eqentia, and Engagio.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Blockchain
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Decrypt — The next-generation media outlet navigating the intersection of culture and technology.
Dapper Labs — Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences that are made for you and ready for the real world.
CryptoKitties — CryptoKitties is a mobile game that enables users to collect and breed virtual cats on the blockchain. The collectible, breedable, and adorable CryptoKitties aim to make blockchain technology accessible to everyday consumers by putting a furry face on the concept of digital collectibles.With each CryptoKitties unique 256-bit genome empower nearly4-billion potential genetic combinations.

Meltem Demirors is Chief Strategy Officer of CoinShares, an investment firm that manages $750M in assets, and is a trusted partner to investors and entrepreneurs navigating the digital asset ecosystem. Meltem oversees the firm’s managed strategies group and its New York office, and leads corporate development as a board director. Previously, shewas part of the founding team of Digital Currency Group. She teaches at MIT and Oxford, and serves on the WEF Blockchain Council. Meltem leads CoinShares' venture strategy and is an active angel investor, having invested in over 150 companies in the digital currency ecosystem since 2015.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
Magma — Magma is a decentralized liquid staking protocol built on the Monad Network, an Ethereum-compatible Layer 1 blockchain.
Neptune Protocol — Neptune Protocol is a decentralized lending platform. It enhances capital efficiency by enabling customers to obtain liquidity in a secure manner.

Bryan Rosenblatt (born July 4, 1989 in New York, New York, United States) is an American Venture Capitalist and entrepreneur. He is a Partner at Craft Ventures, a venture firm with over $2 billion AUM started by David Sacks. He is also a founder of Riverside Ventures, which he started in 2017, and a former executive at Reddit and Twitter. Hepreviously worked at Reddit as the Head of Sales. Bryan Rosenblatt attended the University of Connecticut School of Business and Charles University.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Dapper Labs — Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences that are made for you and ready for the real world.
Jomboy Media — A creator-led media company that breaks down sports at the expense of no one (except ourselves). Click to read Jomboy Media, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
Underdog Fantasy — Fantasy sports for real money

Jack Herrick is a serial entrepreneur and current CEO and Founder of wikiHow.Jack founded wikiHow, which is like Wikipedia for how-to. Jack started and self financed wikiHow from inception to it's current position as one of the most popular sites on the web receiving over 25 million unique visitors per month. Prior to wikiHow, Jack wasco-CEO of eHow. With Josh Hannah, Jack purchased eHow in 2004. Between 2004 and 2006 eHow grew 30x in traffic and revenue and became the largest pure play how-to site on the web. Demand Media acquired eHow in 2006.In 2002 Jack co-founded Luminescent Technologies with Dan Abrams, Eli Yablonovitch, and Stan Osher. Luminescent is a computational semiconductor lithography company that has raised over $25 MM in venture capital. From 1999-2001 Jack was CEO and co-founder at BigTray, a Sequoia funded e-commerce company. BigTray was sold in 2001 and remains the largest online vendor of restaurant equipment and supplies.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Florida Street — PIXEL GG INC.
SX Network — The global liqudity hub for betting
Teahouse Finance — Powered by cutting-edge smart contracts

Anthony Sassano is a Product Marketing Manager at Set Labs. He attended La Trobe University.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Valantis Labs — Valantis is a platform comprising decentralized exchanges (DEXes) and on-chain tools that empower developers to design and implement custom liquidity infrastructure for blockchain ecosystems. Using modular components, Valantis streamlines the process, making it faster, cost-effective, and user-friendly.
Zaros Finance — Zaros is a protocol that provides efficient liquidity, boosts staking rewards from LSTs, and aims to become the preferred liquidity hub for on-chain derivatives.
Creadibly Neutral — Credibly Neutral is a builder-led early stage venture fund investing $50-250k in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS.

Matthew James "Matt" Bellamy (born 9 June 1978) is an English musician best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, pianist, and principal songwriter of rock band Muse. He is often recognized for his eccentric stage persona, wide tenor vocal range, and piano and guitar abilities.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

MindPortal — The future of personal computing.
Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
Nobell Foods — Farm fresh animal-free cheese that melts, stretches, tastes, goozes, oozes, bubbles, pops, tingles, and everything else to make your brain explode.

Josh joined Metamorphic Ventures in 2013.Prior to Metamorphic, Josh worked in Business Development for startup, JustDecide, a social decision-making company. Prior to JustDecide, Josh worked in digital marketing and branding at Bayard Advertising.Josh is also a member of the executive board at Tech@NYU, New York City’s largest studenttechnology organization. For multiple semesters he was in charge of “Startup Week” where he helped organize events with top entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in New York City.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Internet, Software
Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Dapper Labs — Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences that are made for you and ready for the real world.
CryptoKitties — CryptoKitties is a mobile game that enables users to collect and breed virtual cats on the blockchain. The collectible, breedable, and adorable CryptoKitties aim to make blockchain technology accessible to everyday consumers by putting a furry face on the concept of digital collectibles.With each CryptoKitties unique 256-bit genome empower nearly4-billion potential genetic combinations.

Cofounder & CEO of Community Gaming

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Video Games
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

AAG Ventures — AAG Ventures is the IT business behind AAG, one of the fastest-growing Play-To-Earn guilds in the industry.
Community Gaming — Community Gaming is an esports tournament platform, building efficient payment infrastructure to enable gamers to earn and achieve. The CG platform equips players, tournament organizers, and game developers with the tools needed to create and participate in scalable grassroots tournaments.
Horizon Blockchain Games — We make web3 easy, fun, and accessible for users and builders.

Jeff Morris Jr. is the Founder & Managing Partner at Chapter One.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Productivity Tools
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Cord — Cord, the London-based platform that acts as the connecting bridge between any and all apps.
Bubbles — Bubbles is a collaboration tool that lets you tag anything on your screen and invite your teammates to discuss in-context. Get excited by organic growth and viral loops, and less so by paid advertising. Are active on one or more social platforms like Medium, Twitter, Product Hunt, etc.
Syndicate — Syndicate horizontally scales Ethereum and community ownership.

Tinie shot to prominence with his chart-topping album 'Disc-Overy' which featured the #1s 'Pass Out' & 'Written In the Stars'. 2 x BRITs, a MOBO and an Ivor Novello followed. His 2nd album 'Demonstration' featured collaborators such as Dizzee Rascal, Emeli Sandé & Laura Mvula. In 2015, Tinie returnedwith 'Not Letting Go' and a feature on KDA's 'Turn The Music Louder'. Both topped the charts to give him 7 UK #1s - the most by any artist this decade.

Investment focus

FinTech, Art, Apps
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
Gener8 — We believe that the advertising industry needs more transparency and that people should be able to control their own data. Our technology gives people the control that is currently missing. And if people choose to share their data with advertisers, we reward them for it. Consequently, people trust us and 83% of them share their data with us.Meaning that we have an incredible understanding about these people and their online behaviour. We work with companies (and their media agencies) in the capacity of a media owner to do three things: 1. Provide premium media for you to reach this highly defined audience.2. Use our proprietary first party data to unveil actionable insights about your customers, eg. their purchase habits.3. To promote your brand and drive an action from your audience.

Mai Fujimoto is known domestically and internationally as Miss Bitcoin. She has been promoting the spread of Bitcoin around the world since 2011.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Marketplace, Art
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Canada, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

RSS3 — RSS3 is an open protocol designed for content and social networks in the Web 3.0 era.
GCR DAO — Global Coin Research is a Community-led DAO for Web3 Research & Investing. We source, vet & fund Pre-Seed to Series A opportunities. Join to Invest Together!
Brand New Vision — Brand New Vision uses smart contracts to help creators sell digital fashion and other accessories.

Sandeep Nailwal is the co-founder and COO of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as the Co-Founder and CEO. He attended the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Fraction AI — Fraction AI is the best human-generated data for training your AI models.
Lava Network — Lava Network aims to be a marketplace for blockchain data.
Talus Network — Talus Network is an L1 blockchain purpose-built for Smart Agents. Built with the MoveVM, Talus allows for seamless development, ownership, and monetization of composable Smart Agents.

Richard Dai

Investment focus

Blockchain, Web3, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
Moku — Moku is a web3 gaming platform that enables players connect to gaming guilds, NFT casting pages, game strategy communities, and more.
Inference Labs — AI hyperscale on decentralized networks - We provide certainty for on-chain AI

Mark Pincus is the founder and Executive Chairman of the Board of Zynga. He has served as our Chairman from April 2007 to March 2016 and the company's Executive Chairman since March 2016. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer from April 2007 to July 2013 and from April 2015 to March 2016, and as Chief Product Officer from April2007 to April 2014. In 2014, he founded superlabs, a San Francisco-based product lab focused on developing products that connect and empower people, which was acquired by Zynga in 2015. Pincus also founded Zynga.org in 2009, a non-profit organization dedicated to using social games for social good.From 2003 to 2007, Pincus served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Tribe.net, a company he launched and one of the first social networks in the industry. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Chairman of Support.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRT), a help desk automation software company he founded, and he served as Chief Executive Officer and President from December 1997 to July 1999. From 1996 to 1997, he served as Chief Executive Officer of FreeLoader, Inc., a web-based news company he founded.Pincus also made founding investments in Napster, Twitter, and Facebook.Pincus graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is an angel investor in multiple Silicon Valley startups and regularly gives lectures to aspiring entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Internet, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Troveo AI — AI companies are scouring the internet for high-quality video. Troveo helps you capture the value and turn your video into passive revenue.
Echo Chunk AI — We build epic strategy games that generate themselves. Starting with Echo Chess: the daily chess puzzler where you are what you eat.
Spring Free EV — Fleet managers, high mileage, and gig drivers. No Personal Credit Required. Learn More About Spring Free EV Today! A Stress-Free, Quick, and Unbiased Process to Get You Into an Electric Vehicle. Pay As You Go.

Michael Dunworth Formerly CRM Manager and Analyst at Midwinter Financial. Co-Founded FullSociety.com in 2011 and merged with TimeOut.com in 2012.

Investment focus

FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Wyre — Wyre is a developer of a blockchain-based payment platform designed to change the future of how international payments are done. The company's platform provides real-time payouts, same-day transfers, and direct-to-bank transfers, enabling businesses to move money across borders from country-to-country at a competitive foreign exchange rate.Wyre's business owners can easily create an account and send money to any person or business without worrying about high foreign exchange rates, hidden fees, complicated payout timing, and high payment fees. It also provides onramps and off-ramps, foreign exchange, and crypto liquidity to users of various crypto projects including decentralized exchanges.Wyre was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.
XMTP — XMTP is an open, crypto-native communication protocol that connects communities, applications, and users. It was founded in 2021 and is based in Austin, Texas.
Zapper — Your home to web3. Explore wallets, NFTs, DeFi, Daos and more...

Steve Huffman is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the CEO of Reddit. Steve previously worked at Hipmunk as a Co-Founder and CTO. Steve Huffman attended the University of Virginia.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Apps
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Agora — Simplify your compensation practices and effectively communicate total rewards to your people.
Fathom — Instantly summarizes your meetings so you can focus on the conversation instead of taking notes.
JustPaid — Stay in control of your business with payments, AI-powered automation, benchmarking, contract tracking, opportunity alerts, and more, all in one platform.

Kain Warwick is the Co-Founder and CEO at blueshyft

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Australia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

CAP Labs — CAP Labs is a stablecoin developer platform that produces various denominations of redeemable stablecoins.
EarthFast — EarthFast provides cryptocurrency front-end hosting solutions. It enables projects to build and deploy decentralized apps, providing a secure alternative to traditional cloud platforms.
Fogo Digital — Fogo Digital builds smart connected outdoor gadgets to keep you connected and safe when your are on the road or trail. Their flagship product is the Fogo, a durable waterproof smart flashlight with GPS and a digital radio (among other goodies). It is perfect for hiking, biking, camping, hunting, climbing, fishing, and all thingsoutdoors/apocalyptic.

Rasool is a serial entrepreneur with experience in the software, healthcare, and CPG industries. He continues to maintain his passion for technology as an active angel investor with a focus on b2b, consumer saas and health tech. Rasool maintains an active role with CEO’s as a board member, mentor and advisor. He currently serves on the boards ofthe Victoria Foundation, VIATEC, and Checkfront Software.

Investment focus

SaaS, Content, Cloud Computing
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Outway — Inspiring personal bests.
Defined — Real-time token prices, charts, wallet tracking, and trading terminal for every popular network including Ethereum, Solana, Base, Arbitrum, and Optimism.
Cognito Health — Canada's only integrated online mental health solution. Accessible and affordable treatment for your mental health. Book a free initial assessment today.

Avichal is Managing Partner at Electric Capital. He is a serial entrepreneur and technology executive. Avichal sold two companies and was most recently Director of Product at Facebook, which acquired his company Spool in 2012. He previously worked at Google on search ranking and ads ranking, is part-time at YCombinator, and an active angelinvestor.Avichal's firm, Electric Capital, focuses on cryptocurrencies that are rooted in technological utility. Electric performs deep technological diligence, such as compiling code, profiling nodes, and analyzing blockchains with in-house software. The founders of Electric have started and sold five companies, have been investing in cryptocurrencies since 2013, and are investors in Anchor, Bitwise, Chia, Coda, dYdX, Dfinity, Oasis, Thunder and many other crypto projects.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Key — Key provides a unique method to making significant professional relationships while also promoting career advancement, financial well-being, and work-life balance
Matic — The world's most advanced floor cleaner. Your home's best helper.
Magrathea — Magrathea Metals is a mining company that unlocks centuries of growth in human civilization by reducing the socioenvironmental impacts.

Damon Gura was founder of DNG Games.He completed his study in MBA, Innovation fron Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Analytics
Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Helika — Helika is a web3 product analytics platform that helps projects better understand their users, increase engagement, and drive growth.

Karel is the Co-Founder of Treasure, a community-driven gaming ecosystem building the next gaming and entertainment powerhouse. Since launching in September 2021, Treasure has become home to over 15+ games and hundreds of thousands of players to emerge as one the leading web3 gaming ecosystems. Some of Treasure's games include: The Beacon,Kaiju Cards, Mighty Action Heroes, Zeeverse, Kuroro Beasts, and Knights of the Ether.Karel was previously a Senior Associate and Chief of Staff at Sagard and Portage wearing many hats and working closely with Paul Desmarais III on special projects and across communications, investor relations, fundraising, operations, and more. Before Sagard, was the first employee at Diagram to launch a $30M venture builder and served as a founding member of initial two portfolio companies, Dialogue (IPO - TSX:CARE; later acquired by Sun Life) and Collage (acquired by People Corporation).Started career in product management and software engineering at various startups and tech companies in Toronto, Waterloo, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Series A
Canada, Philippines, United States

Portfolio highlights

Helika — Helika is a web3 product analytics platform that helps projects better understand their users, increase engagement, and drive growth.
Satsuma — Speed up your app with our best-in-class blockchain indexing and query platform. Never worry about downtime or lag again.
Delegate — Delegate focuses on increasing the security of on-chain identities and digital asset management such as NFTs and ERC20 tokens.

See eun ha is a individual investor.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Information Technology
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Octav — Securely interpret DeFi and crypto portfolios with Octav's best-in-class cross-chain monitoring & pre-tax facilitator. Maximize efficiency for finance, accounting, tax professionals. Advanced labeling, reporting & reconciliation of DeFi investments. Latest Web3 dashboard. Elevate Decentralized Finance now.

Mathieu Baril is Co Founder CEO of Octav Labs. He previously worked at Phoenix as a SVP. Mathieu Baril attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Investment focus

Ethereum, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Portals — Portals is a #DeFi yield and protocol aggregator for transaction bundling, any-to-any swaps, and real-time data

Alex Adelman is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Lolli. Alex was previously the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Cosmic (acquired by PopSugar, then Ebates). He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina and currently resides in New York, New York. He graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a degree in Economics.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Limit Break — Limit Break is a blockchain game company.
Daylight — Discover new relevant things to do in crypto: mints, claims, votes, and more.
Horizon Blockchain Games — We make web3 easy, fun, and accessible for users and builders.

Andrey Izyumov

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Brazil, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Vezgo — Vezgo is the easiest way for people to connect their crypto accounts to your app.
Approveit — Manage spend with ease and save hundreds of collective hours on editing payment data, sending approval emails, and looking for the right person to ask.
Freedom Biosciences — Freedom Biosciences is a biotechnology platform developing next-generation psychedelic therapeutics.

David Hariri - Co-Founder @ Ada

Investment focus

Art, Apps, Mobile
Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.

Josh started Sundae to help homeowners get a better outcome when selling off-market. With a career at the intersection of technology and residential real estate, he’s seen first hand the opportunity to create a new type of business that wins by doing the right thing for the seller.Prior to starting Sundae, Josh was Founding Partner and SVP ofSales at LendingHome, an online mortgage bank specializing in short-term residential bridge loans. During his five years at LendingHome, Josh helped the company outperform veteran business in LendingHome’s category as the company scaled to 350 employees and $150M in venture funding.Prior to LendingHome Josh was Co-Founder and CFO of Purpose Built Investments (PBI), a residential real estate private equity firm. Josh launched three investment funds for PBI focused on buying, renovating, and selling houses as well as bridge lending, executing more than 1,200 transactions.Josh graduated with honors from Stanford with a BA in Economics, BA in Spanish, and an MA in Latin American Studies with a focus in Economic Policy. He wrote his honors thesis on the long-term impact of the subprime lending crisis on the Latino community. Josh lives in San Francisco with his wife, two sons, and their two dogs.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Blockchain
Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Dapper Labs — Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences that are made for you and ready for the real world.
Rho — Rho is the all-in-one financial platform organizations can bank on. We combine card, payments, and banking products with world-class software that traditional financial institutions don’t offer to help companies manage expenses, AP, banking, treasury, and month-end close with greater speed and efficiency. Designed to sync with your accountingsoftware, Rho’s full-stack finance platform empowers corporate finance teams and leaders with the technology they need to drive greater workflow efficiency, control, and visibility over how money moves in and out of their organizations.

Lance Tracey

Investment focus

FinTech, Blockchain, Financial Services
Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Finhaven — Finhaven, a company at the forefront of market innovation, is building new capital markets infrastructure for the issuance, investment, and trading of digital securities. Finhaven uses a powerful agent-based cryptographic ledger to mirror and improve upon the operational intricacies of securities exchanges, focusing on liquidity and security. Byusing a cryptographic ledger and the solutions-based features of blockchain, this hybrid-technology provides solutions for traditional market limitations to revolutionize capital market functions, for both global issuers and investors. By reducing operational transaction costs, converging intermediaries, providing custodianship, increasing efficiency, and providing real-time clearance and settlement solutions, Finhaven’s technology provides efficient, transparent transactions for raising capital and trading.Finhaven aims to see efficient, fair, and transparent market integration through new technologies and drive innovation in global capital markets.

Luke Barwikowski is the Founder, CEO, and CTO of Pixels. He previously worked at Push Labs as a Technical Consulting. Luke Barwikowski attended the University of Michigan.

Investment focus

Web3, Gaming, Blockchain
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Moku — Moku is a web3 gaming platform that enables players connect to gaming guilds, NFT casting pages, game strategy communities, and more.

Pavan Katepalli is a bay area entrepreneur, engineer, investor, and animal rights activist. In 2014, he Co-Founded and was CTO of INRTracker.com and raised $50k in seed funding from Rodger Ford, Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year. In 2015, he served as Chief Learning Officer and an early-stage CTO for Trilogy Education Services. Trilogyraised 80 million dollars of venture funding, grew to 1000+ employees, expanded internationally, and was acquired by 2u (Nasdaq: TWOU). Pavan was a speaker at Bitcoin 2019 and consulted on blockchain technical architecture for banks and government entities. Pavan has a BA in Mathematics from Rutgers University.

Investment focus

Web3, Gaming, Blockchain
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Moku — Moku is a web3 gaming platform that enables players connect to gaming guilds, NFT casting pages, game strategy communities, and more.

Jamie King @former Verafin founder and fraud detection.

Investment focus

Music, Software, Real Time
Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Beatdapp — Beatdapp offers a tracking system that authenticates, verifies, and validates media streamed in real-time.The service reduces the tracking discrepancies between Digital Service Providers (DSPs) and rights holders, increasing royalty revenue for rights holders while limiting legal exposure to royalty lawsuits for DSPs. Think of it like a PWC formusic play count.

Rabindra is the Director of NE Group since August 2010.Currently, he is also Director at Unilever Nepal, National Ice Cream Industries Pvt. Ltd, Super Religare Reference Laboratories (Nepal) Pvt. Ltd.Prior to joining N.E. Group, Rabindra was a Financial Analyst at the Investment Banking Division of Citigroup in San Francisco, USA. Has alsoo worked with Bear Stearns Companies, Unilever UK. Pursued B.A. in Economics from Stanford University (USA); A-Levels from Winchester College (U.K.); Other information: He is a member of Alpha Kappa Psi (Professional Business) and Kappa Alpha Order (Social)

Investment focus

Blockchain, Mobile Apps, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series B
Canada, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Dapper Labs — Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences that are made for you and ready for the real world.
CryptoKitties — CryptoKitties is a mobile game that enables users to collect and breed virtual cats on the blockchain. The collectible, breedable, and adorable CryptoKitties aim to make blockchain technology accessible to everyday consumers by putting a furry face on the concept of digital collectibles.With each CryptoKitties unique 256-bit genome empower nearly4-billion potential genetic combinations.
Koio — Koio is a modern luxury footwear brand. Discover our collection of timeless leather sneakers and slides. Handcrafted in Italy.

Patricia Mora Vallejo is the President of the Mexican Association of Real Estate Professionals (AMPI) in Cancún. Known for her visionary leadership, Patricia is dedicated to promoting women's roles in leadership positions within the real estate industry. Her efforts focus on empowering women to break barriers and assume key roles in drivingindustry growth. Under her leadership, AMPI continues its mission of fostering economic development and creating wealth through real estate activities. Patricia’s presidency is marked by collaboration with industry stakeholders and a strong commitment to supporting infrastructure projects that boost tourism and investment in Cancún.

Investment focus

B2B, B2C, Internet
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Stage Meta — Stage Meta is a Pioneering and Exclusive Ecosystem in Spatial Computing, empowering businesses across industries like Hospitality, Real Estate, Retail, Automotive, and more to create Unique, Immersive Business Experiences.

David Zhang joined Silver Lake in 2013 as a Director. Previously, he worked in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Credit Suisse in San Francisco. Mr. Zhang graduated with distinction from the University of Western Ontario with a B.A. in Honors Business Administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business

Investment focus

FinTech, Art, Social Media
Pre-Seed, Series B, Series D
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Brex — Brex is all-in-one finance for growing businesses. It helps companies spend, save, and earn smarter—and take every dollar further—by doing more than a bank, bookkeeping, or reward program could ever do alone. After completing the Y Combinator accelerator program in 2017, Brex has grown to over 600 employees and raised over US$940 million in venturecapital.
Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
Koji — Koji is the world’s most powerful Link in Bio platform. With hundreds of free apps created by Koji and its community of independent developers, the Koji Link in Bio gives leading Creators on TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, and other social media platforms new ways to engage audiences, connect with supporters, and monetize.

Fred Ehrsam is co-founder of Coinbase. He's been named to both Forbes 30 Under 30 and TIME Magazine's 30 Under 30 Who Are Changing the World.Previously, he was a foreign exchange trader at Goldman Sachs in New York where he traded and managed Goldman’s electronic market making platform. Fred has also analyzed portfolios at BlackRock,the largest asset manager in the world and worked in nanostructures research. He holds a BS in Computer Science and Economics with honors and distinction from Duke University.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

NewLimit — NewLimit is extending human healthspan by unlocking regenerative potential.
Wispr — Wispr AI is a developer of the next-generation of neural interfaces to provide seamless interface with immersive technology. The company is working with the leading neuroscientist, hardware engineers, machine learning researchers, and product engineers to bring frontier technology to the mass consumer market.
Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript and Python dependencies.

Holly Liu is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of PKO Investments. She attended the University of California Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Moku — Moku is a web3 gaming platform that enables players connect to gaming guilds, NFT casting pages, game strategy communities, and more.
Blaze — Blaze is the smarter no-code platform for teams to build internal tools. Create beautiful client portals, admin panels, inventory management systems, and automated workflows without needing to write any code. Trusted by enterprise companies for security and scale. Loved by startup entrepreneurs for being so easy to use and build applications.
Chaos Genius — Chaos Genius is a DataOps Observability platform for Snowflake & Databricks. We help enterprises understand, monitor, and optimize cloud data costs

Entrepreneur & Angel || Interested in economics, psychology, web3, investing, game theory || prev Co-founder of @BisonTrails acquired by @coinbase

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Messaging
Seed, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

3Box — 3Box Labs is a Web3 studio that creates software to advance a more open, safe, and composable Web3. We're hiring!
Polymer Labs — Polymer Labs is building a universal IBC routing/roll-up protocol to enable E2E IBC connectivity across ecosystems.
Sovereign Labs — Sovereign Labs is an ecosystem of interconnected rollups that provides a framework for secure and interoperable zero-knowledge rollups that can run on any blockchain.

Hart Lambur is the Co-Founder, CEO & Board Member of umaproject.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Gyroscope — Gyroscope: an asset-backed stablecoin built on resilient DeFi infrastructure leveraging a diversified reserve, autonomous monetary policy, and innovative AMMs
SX Network — Scaling Polygon for betting, DeFi and NFTs
DELV — Element is an open source protocol for fixed and variable yield markets

Kevin O'Leary is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and television host.O'Leary started his own software company in his basement along with his 5 year partner Gary Babcock. His mother provided the seed investment of $10,000 which he used to start software publisher SoftKey. His partner Gary left just as numerous mergers andacquisitions allowed the company to become The Learning Company and Oâ€™Leary took control as president of the Boston based company. In 1999, the Learning Company was sold to Mattel for $3.7 billion USD.In 2003 he became co-investor and a director in Storage Now, a developer of climate controlled storage facilities. Through a series of development projects and acquisitions, Storage Now became Canadaâ€™s third largest owner/operator of storage services with facilities located in eleven cities serving such companies as Merck and Pfizer when it was acquired by the In Storage REIT in March 2007 for $110 million.In March 2007 O'Leary joined the advisory board of Genstar Capital, a private equity firm that focuses on investments in selected segments of life science and healthcare services, industrial technology, business services and software. Genstar Capital appointed O'Leary to its Strategic Advisory Board to seek new investment opportunities for its $1.2 billion fund. Kevin now has an office in West Palm Beach Florida.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

HelloPrenup — Need a prenup? HelloPrenup is a lawyer free prenuptial agreements platform for marriages. No divorce lawyers, low cost, and fast! Marry with peace of mind - get your prenuptial agreement today.
Roq Innovation — Founded by black female entrepreneur Raquel Graham, Roq Innovation is a leading brand of dynamic activewear and fashionwear products including Headlightz, Nekz, and Face Maskz and Handy Lightz.
Polygon — Polygon is the most proven way to build and scale your decentralized application and projects on Ethereum, the world's largest blockchain ecosystem.

Snow K. is an advisor and board member of multiple DAO, Crypto and Internet projects. He invests in founders and vision first. Snow is the grandson of a fallen self made billionaire accused of being a dissident in his country. Born as a political refugee in Europe, Snow started life with nothing but the ambition to rebuild his own legacy.

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Everyrealm — Everyrealm is an immersive media company, specializing in technology and infrastructure that drives social, community-driven gaming experiences and platforms.
Royal — Own music and earn royalties alongside artists, on Royal
Mythical Games — We are Mythical Games, a Venture-backed next-generation game technology company at the intersection of video games and economics led by industry veterans.

Aaron Henshaw is the Head of Engineering at Grand St.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Infrastructure, Venture Capital
Funding Round, Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Atomic Loans — Learn how to register on Pin Up and start gambling or betting for real money. Create an account and grab a 120% + 250 FS bonus deal!
Credibly Neutral — Credibly Neutral is a builder-led early stage venture fund investing $50-250k in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS.
Creadibly Neutral — Credibly Neutral is a builder-led early stage venture fund investing $50-250k in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS.

Jason Kim

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Mainstream Labs — Modular, end-to-end governance platform.

Mike Murchison is the CEO and Co-Founder of Ada, the leading provider of AI customer support chatbots. Ada provides a simple and powerful authoring environment, cutting edge machine learning, and lightning-fast deployment, automating millions of chat conversations per month for clients such as TELUS, Coinbase, and Shopify. In partnership withGenesys, Ada is helping companies improve their customer experience, dramatically reduce costs, and increase support team productivity.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Art
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Lancey — Lancey is an interactive demo builder designed for sales and marketing teams to grow pipeline and close deals.
Shakepay — Shakepay allows Canadians to buy/sell bitcoin and pay their friends. We're on a mission to create open access to building wealth.
Accord — Build your repeatable sales & onboarding process to hit growth targets. Collaborative. Transparent. Engaging. What customers love.

Omar Shakeeb is the co-founder of Second_Lane.

Investment focus

Web3, Blockchain, Machine Learning
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Inference Labs — AI hyperscale on decentralized networks - We provide certainty for on-chain AI

Mariano Conti is a Head of Smart Contracts at Maker Foundation.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Astaria — Astaria is the solution to the hardest problem in Defi: instant highly liquid NFT lending. Astaria allows users to get instant liquidity for their NFTs.
GitPOAP — GitPOAP is a decentralized reputation platform that represents off-chain accomplishments and contributions on chain as POAPs.
LAGO — LAGO helps to bridge the traditional and digital art world with interactive, gesture control, curation, voice control and providence.

Regan Bozman is a Director Of Business Operations at CoinList.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

OpenSea — OpenSea is a peer-to-peer marketplace for crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens. It includes collectibles, gaming items, and other virtual goods backed by a blockchain. On OpenSea, anyone can buy or sell these items through a smart contract.
Myco — We've created a new kind of home for your community that makes it easy for groups of people to start earning together on the web. It's a single place for your community to share and interact, that helps you push content to all of your contributors.
Syndicate — Syndicate is a decentralized asset management platform and social network.

Robert Halpern

Investment focus

FinTech, Blockchain, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Bitbuy — Bitbuy is the leading Canadian digital currency trading platform. Currently, Bitbuy offers deep liquidity across 10+ spot trading markets through its trading interfaces and OTC (Over-the-counter) trading desk. The Bitbuy interface is broken out into Express Trade and Pro Trade. While Express Trade has been designed for newer traders looking for aneasy-to-use interface, Pro Trade is best suited for more advanced traders who are looking for lower fees, access to charts, API connectivity, and a live order book.
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.

Alex Pack is a Founding Partner on the deal team at AngelList, the largest platform for early-stage tech investing in the world. Previously he was an investor with Arbor Ventures, an early-stage VC firm in Hong Kong, where he focused on opportunities in cross-border FinTech, EdTech, and blockchain technology.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, Blockchain
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, China

Portfolio highlights

Zerion — Zerion is an investing app that enables anyone, anywhere in the world, to access a suite of new financial products and services built on the backbone of decentralized finance (DeFi). Simple, user-centered design is combined with a powerful tech stack that aggregates across every major decentralized exchange, offering users a single point of entryfor managing their digital assets with ease. Zerion is non-custodial, which means users never delegate their funds to the platform. This agile approach mitigates centralization risk and has allowed Zerion to operate globally since inception.
SX Network — Scaling Polygon for betting, DeFi and NFTs
Affine — Alpine Empower Banking offers an exceptional financial solution designed to maximize your financial growth. With secure deposits and high yields, you can rest assured that your funds are protected while earning attractive returns. Additionally, Alpine Empower Banking provides convenient card benefits, ensuring easy access to your funds and a seamless banking experience.

Larry Sukernik is a Co-Founder at Reverie. He attended Rutgers Business School.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Sovereign Labs — Sovereign Labs is an ecosystem of interconnected rollups that provides a framework for secure and interoperable zero-knowledge rollups that can run on any blockchain.
Syndicate — Infrastructure for powerful web3 products at scale
Mainstream Labs — Modular, end-to-end governance platform.

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