Top 50 Blockchain Angel Investors in Canada in December 2024
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 December 2024
Investor | Blockchain Canada investments |
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Balaji Srinivasan | 6 |
William Mougayar | 3 |
Meltem Demirors | 3 |
Bryan Rosenblatt | 3 |
Mark Pincus | 2 |
Michael Dunworth | 2 |
Kain Warwick | 2 |
Rasool Rayani | 2 |
Avichal Garg | 2 |
Jack Herrick | 2 |
Chris Gonsalves | 2 |
Jeff Morris Jr. | 2 |
Tinie Tempah | 2 |
Anthony Sassano | 2 |
Mai Fujimoto | 2 |
Steve Huffman | 2 |
Matt Bellamy | 2 |
Josh Nussbaum | 2 |
Richard Dai | 2 |
Sandeep Nailwal | 2 |
Mariano Conti | 1 |
Paul Desmarais III | 1 |
Regan Bozman | 1 |
Robert Halpern | 1 |
Aleksander Leonard Larsen | 1 |
Alexander Pack | 1 |
Khaled Verjee | 1 |
Michael Katchen | 1 |
Luke Youngblood | 1 |
Spencer Tucker | 1 |
Hart Lambur | 1 |
Damon Gura | 1 |
Jason Lee | 1 |
Kevin O'Leary | 1 |
Snow K. | 1 |
Joe Betts-Lacroix | 1 |
Karel Vuong | 1 |
Aaron Henshaw | 1 |
Jason Kim | 1 |
Spada ₿oom | 1 |
Deepak Jain | 1 |
Xavier ekkel | 1 |
Tobias ,, | 1 |
Owl eth | 1 |
Robert Aron Zawiasa | 1 |
See eun ha eun ha | 1 |
Rachid Ajaja | 1 |
Larry Fichtner | 1 |
Mathieu Baril | 1 |
Larry Sukernik | 1 |
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.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- ZAR — Enjoy borderless banking with a USD Visa card powered by stablecoins. Available in 180+ countries. Sign up for your account today!
- The Arena — Arena. social is a cutting-edge SocialFi platform that is revolutionizing how content producers interact, network, and make money from their work.
- 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.
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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.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, France
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.
- Fluid Protocol — Fluid Protocol is a decentralized, over-collateralized lending mechanism designed especially for Fuel Network. In order to maximize capital efficiency, Fluid offers users a safe and effective method of releasing liquidity from their collateral without having to liquidate their underlying assets.
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.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Retail, Software
- 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
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.
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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.
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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 — 2M+ web3 identities trust XMTP for secure & private messaging
- Zapper — Your home to web3. Explore wallets, NFTs, DeFi, Daos and more...
Kain Warwick is the Co-Founder and CEO at blueshyft
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Australia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Ammalgam — Ammalgam is a new primitive that integrates lending and trading into a single protocol known as a Decentralized Lending Exchange (DLEX).
- 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.
- Firewall — Firewall is building a security layer for Web3, including the Safe Sequencer and its modular components that mitigate smart contract hacks before they impact users. Backed by NIV, Breyer Capital and Hack VC.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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
Cofounder & CEO of Community Gaming
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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 — CommunityGaming.io combines social gaming, match automation, and blockchain payment technology to make it easy to organize and compete in esports tournaments. Their solution uses automated software and blockchain payment tech to produce fair, transparent, automated results without the complexity normally associated with blockchain solutions. Ourevent platform is a network of thousands of gamers, dozens of venues, and brands who we've proudly brought together across over 200 live and online esports competitions.
- 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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Productivity Tools
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Cord — Cord is everything you need to build amazing chat, commenting, and collaboration experiences.
- 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 — Infrastructure for powerful web3 products at scale
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.
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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.
Anthony Sassano is a Product Marketing Manager at Set Labs. He attended La Trobe University.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Horizon Blockchain Games — We make web3 easy, fun, and accessible for users and builders.
Mai Fujimoto is known domestically and internationally as Miss Bitcoin. She has been promoting the spread of Bitcoin around the world since 2011.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Marketplace, Art
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, Canada, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- RSS3 — RSS3 structures open information for the next Twitter, Google, and OpenAI.
- 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.
Steve Huffman is the CEO of Reddit. He previously worked at Hipmunk as a Co-Founder and CTO. Steve Huffman attended the University of Virginia.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
Richard Dai
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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
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.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- TAC — TAC is a TON network extension that allows the EVM community to access Telegram users, and it enables Ton wallet holders to easily interact with EVM dApps deployed on TAC.
- 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.
- 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.
Mariano Conti is a Head of Smart Contracts at Maker Foundation.
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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.
Paul is the Executive Chairman of Portag3 Ventures and also serves as the Senior Vice-President of Power Financial and Power Corporation. Before joining Power as Vice-President in May 2014, he was Assistant Vice-President in the Risk Management Group of Great-West Lifeco beginning in 2012. Previously, he worked in project management and corporatestrategy at Imerys in France. He began his career in 2004, working for five years with Goldman Sachs in the United States, in the Investment Banking and Investment Strategy Groups, as well as in the Special Situations Group.In May 2014, Paul was named a director of Great-West Life, Investors Group, Mackenzie, Pargesa and Groupe Bruxelles Lambert. He is also Chairman of Sagard Capital and Wealthsimple, and Vice-Chairman of Imerys. In December 2016, Paul was named a director of Personal Capital.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Venture Capital, Financial Services
- Seed, Private Equity, Series B
- Canada, India, United States
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.
- Stack Wealth — Stack is a personalised online wealth management platform helping you invest in Indian & US equity, debt, gold, real estate & more. Our investment team has 50+ years of experience in wealth management.
- Performance Equity Management — At PEM, our focus is Access, Selection, and Portfolios. Our team has an average 20 years of experience investing in private equity, with a breadth and depth of relationships that give us access to some of the best managers and deals.
Regan Bozman is a Director Of Business Operations at CoinList.
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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
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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.
Aleksander Leonard Larsen is the Co-Founder and COO at Sky Mavis.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Digital Entertainment, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Norway, Singapore, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!
- Pixels — Pixels is a play-to-earn MMO game built around the NFT assets you already own. Build your NFT a home in the metaverse and get farming.
- Horizon Blockchain Games — We make web3 easy, fun, and accessible for users and builders.
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.
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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.
Khaled Verjee
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Ethereum, Internet
- Seed, Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- ChainSafe Systems — ChainSafe Systems is a global leader in blockchain protocol and infrastructure development located in Toronto.
- Horizon Blockchain Games — We make web3 easy, fun, and accessible for users and builders.
Founder & CEO. Entrepreneur, passionate about transforming investment management.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, FinTech, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Resq — At ResQ, we're obsessed with simplifying the repairs and maintenance experience so you can focus on doing what you love. Talk to a ResQ Expert today!
- KEEP Labs — The Modern medicine Cabinet and Data Platform. We partner with healthcare organizations to improve patient adherence by integrating and augmenting their programs, not displacing them.
- Float — Spend, track, approve, and reconcile all your CAD and USD expenses in one platform. Corporate cards tied with intelligent spend management software.
Luke Youngblood
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Euler — Euler Labs is a software development and risk management company.
- Mainstream Labs — Modular, end-to-end governance platform.
Spencer Tucker is the Chief Gaming Officer of Yuga Labs. He previously worked at Scopely as a President, Games. Spencer Tucker attended American InterContinental University.
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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.
Hart Lambur is the Co-Founder, CEO & Board Member of umaproject.
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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
Damon Gura was founder of DNG Games.He completed his study in MBA, Innovation fron Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management.
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- Internet, Software, Analytics
- Series A
- Canada
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- Helika — Helika is a web3 product analytics platform that helps projects better understand their users, increase engagement, and drive growth.
Jason Lee is the Business Development & Partnerships Lead at Phantom.
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- Web3, Gaming, Blockchain
- Seed
- Canada
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- Moku — Moku is a web3 gaming platform that enables players connect to gaming guilds, NFT casting pages, game strategy communities, and more.
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 O’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 Canada’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.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Canada
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- 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.
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- Blockchain, FinTech, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Vietnam
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- 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.
Joe Betts-Lacroix is the CEO at Retro. He previously worked at OQO as a Co-Founder and CTO. Joe Betts-Lacroix attended Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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- Health Care, Life Science, Biotechnology
- Seed
- United States
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- VitaDAO — Join VitaDAO, a community owned collective funding early stage longevity research. We fund and commercialize longevity therapeutics.
- Spring Discovery — Giving Scientists AI Superpowers
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.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Series A
- Canada, Philippines, United States
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- 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.
Aaron Henshaw is the Head of Engineering at Grand St.
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- Cryptocurrency, Infrastructure, Venture Capital
- Funding Round, Seed
- Canada, United States
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- Atomic Loans — Atomic Loans is a protocol for bitcoin and crypto-backed loans on your terms, without middlemen. By extending atomic swap technology, Atomic Loans enables users to interact with trustless, cross-chain debt agreements. We use the functionality of the native Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains to enable lending without requiring customers to delegatetrust to centralized custodians, ensuring their funds will never be stolen or seized.
- 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
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- Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
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- Mainstream Labs — Modular, end-to-end governance platform.
Spada₿oom is an individual investor.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Canada
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- Infrared Finance — Infrared simplifies interacting with Proof of Liquidity with our liquid staking products.
Value Creator - People Oriented - Turnaround Champion - Cultural Integration Expert
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- Art, Gaming, eSports
- Pre-Seed
- Canada
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- Anime Universe — Anime Universe Corporate Site
Xavier ekkel is a indiviual investor.
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- Blockchain, Information Technology
- Seed
- Canada
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- 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.
Tobias ,,
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- Web3, Blockchain, Machine Learning
- Seed
- Canada
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- Inference Labs — AI hyperscale on decentralized networks - We provide certainty for on-chain AI
Owl.eth is a individual angel invetsor.
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- Ethereum, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Canada
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- Portals — Portals is a #DeFi yield and protocol aggregator for transaction bundling, any-to-any swaps, and real-time data
Robert Aron Zawiasa
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- Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States
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- Party.Space — Host stunning virtual parties, custom corportate celebrations & virtual events in metaverse for your team. Any scale 3D space for any kind of event!
- Mainstream Labs — Modular, end-to-end governance platform.
See eun ha is a individual investor.
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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.
Rachid Ajaja is the CEO and Co-Founder of AllianceBlock.
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- Information Technology, SaaS, Software
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Canada
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- Vezgo — Vezgo is the easiest way for people to connect their crypto accounts to your app.
- Genesis Shards — New marketplace for pre-IDO tokens on NFTs
Larry Fichtner
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- 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.
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.
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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
Larry Sukernik is a Co-Founder at Reverie. He attended Rutgers Business School.
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- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada
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- 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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