Top 20 Cannabis Angel Investors in Canada in May 2025
A list of 20 angel investors that invest in Cannabis startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Cannabis companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Cannabis Angel Investors in Canada in May 2025
Investor | Cannabis Canada investments |
---|---|
James Pardieck | 1 |
Kathia Cambron | 1 |
Monroe Asami | 1 |
Jon Oringer | 1 |
Kevin Liles | 1 |
Tomas Lestrup | 1 |
Ken Miyoshi | 1 |
Aman Chatha | 1 |
Aubrey Graham (Drake) | 1 |
Chuck Rifici | 1 |
John Nemanic | 1 |
Ethan Oren Perlstein | 1 |
Brett Wilson | 1 |
Lanny Lipson | 1 |
Jon Oringer | 1 |
Nadav Ben-Chanoch | 1 |
Robin Knox | 1 |
Brett Wilson | 1 |
Philip Sane | 1 |
Jon Oringer | 1 |
James Pardieck
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.
Kathia Cambron
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.
Monroe Asami
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- SLUSHY — Slushy is the ultimate adult social platform for new creators. Post content, grow your following, and monetize your profile all in one place. Reach new fans on day one with instant approvals and payouts on demand. Sign up and start earning today!
- Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
- Unsloth AI — Open-source LLM fine-tuning for Llama 4, Phi 4, Gemma 3, Mistral and more! Beginner friendly. Get faster with Unsloth.
Kevin Liles, CEO, and Co-Founder at 300 Entertainment. He attended Morgan State University.
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Investment focus
- Music, Retail, Fashion
- Series A, Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Burb — Burb is a cannabis culture brand with retail stores serving the Greater Vancouver Area. Shop Burb's latest ready-to-wear and accessories online. Secure & Easy Checkout with fast worldwide shipping.
- Stationhead — Stationhead is the place for music fans around the world to connect, listen live, and stream together.
- Creative Intell — Real education for the real music business
Tomas Lestrup
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.
Ken Miyoshi
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Video, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Convertible Note
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Nimia — Buy Cinematic Stock Footage from Award Winning Filmmakers. Find the perfect royalty-free and rights-managed stock footage for your next project from the world's best filmmakers. Shop creative stock footage, archival stock footage, and editorial stock fooage.
- Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.
- Root Sciences — Root Sciences provides premium cannabis distillation & extraction equipment and training services. Turnkey and scale-able solution for CBD distillation.
Aman Chatha
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.
Aubrey Graham (Drake) is the Founder of OVO Sound.
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Investment focus
- eSports, Shopping, Gaming
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
- Bullrider — There's cannabis then there's Bullrider. Legacy in the making since 2004. Cannabis dispensary selling and delivering legal weed in Brampton, Canada from 67 Shelby Road.
- StatusPro — Completely rewrite the rules of the game and leave your legacy in the latest NFL and NFLPA-licensed VR experience, NFL PRO ERA 25
Dubbed the ‘Willy Wonka of Weed,’ Chuck is a true pioneer of the North American cannabis industry having founded Canopy Growth (formerly Tweed Marijuana) in an dilapidated old Hershey factory and building it into 500,000 square feet of thriving marijuana grow capacity. Today Canopy Growth is worth over $US 200 million and recognized as a worldclass cannabis producer. The talent he recruited now guides the entire Canadian cannabis industry.As CEO of Nesta, Chuck communicates the Company’s vision and purpose, devising practical strategies for sustainable growth and attracting top entrepreneurial talent to the firm.
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Lifestyle, Marketing
- Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Tokyo Smoke — Tokyo Smoke is a modern lifestyle collective and a cultural movement. Our aim is to create an immersive physical experience, across verticals that touch our hearts, with the care, craft and expertise. Fundamentally, we believe Coffee, Clothing, and Cannabis are the lifeblood of the Creative Class. The Brand Tokyo Smoke is the touchstone for beauty,design, and quality in a society hungry for inclusive but sophisticated, designer brands. The combination of creativity, passion, and originality, has formed a sophisticated urban brand that goes beyond products. By integrating into the creative drivers of consumers, those being coffee, clothing and cannabis, Tokyo Smoke can help shape how today’s individual lives their life. This puts us in a unique position to interact with consumers within multiple touch points throughout their day.Specifically, this is what the verticals allow us to do:• Coffee: the shops function as a brand experience center to host our customers and the community• Clothing: provides a foundation to interact with our customers and ambassadors across the world and to establish the legitimacy and reach of the brand• Cannabis: brings beauty, form and function to an underserved consumer, with Tokyo Smoke as the first brand to provide an aspirational and inspirational lifestyle that transcends the Cannabis cultureCurrently, there are two coffee bars / luxury Cannabis accessory shops that function as experience centers. The line of luxury men’s clothing is available at GotStyle, in the coffee shop as well as other select retailers. The line of Tokyo Smoke Cannabis is soon to be on shelf in Washington State with a first of its kind deal about to be signed in Canada.
John Nemanic
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.
Over the course of the last decade, first as a graduate student at Harvard University in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology with PhD advisor Professor Stuart Schreiber and then as an independent postdoctoral fellow at the Lewis-Sigler Institute at Princeton University, Dr. Ethan Perlstein developed an approach to studying old drugs anddiscovering new drugs in model organisms called evolutionary pharmacology. Ethan is an author on 19 peer-reviewed scholarly publications, including the discovery of a novel mechanism of action for the antidepressant Zoloft based on studies in yeast cells.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Cannabis, Biopharma
- Seed
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Epinoma — Epinoma is a diagnostics company that focuses on the multi-omics approach to cancer monitoring. It engineers proteins that control the operating system of biology. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
- BluumBio — BluumBio develops next-generation remediation technologies that clean up pollution and restore degraded ecosystems
- Promakhos Therapeutics — A Boston-based biotech startup developing therapeutics.
W. Brett Wilson was the Co-Founder of FirstEnergy Capital. He currently worked at Canoe Financial as the Chairman.
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Lifestyle, Marketing
- Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Tokyo Smoke — Tokyo Smoke is a modern lifestyle collective and a cultural movement. Our aim is to create an immersive physical experience, across verticals that touch our hearts, with the care, craft and expertise. Fundamentally, we believe Coffee, Clothing, and Cannabis are the lifeblood of the Creative Class. The Brand Tokyo Smoke is the touchstone for beauty,design, and quality in a society hungry for inclusive but sophisticated, designer brands. The combination of creativity, passion, and originality, has formed a sophisticated urban brand that goes beyond products. By integrating into the creative drivers of consumers, those being coffee, clothing and cannabis, Tokyo Smoke can help shape how today’s individual lives their life. This puts us in a unique position to interact with consumers within multiple touch points throughout their day.Specifically, this is what the verticals allow us to do:• Coffee: the shops function as a brand experience center to host our customers and the community• Clothing: provides a foundation to interact with our customers and ambassadors across the world and to establish the legitimacy and reach of the brand• Cannabis: brings beauty, form and function to an underserved consumer, with Tokyo Smoke as the first brand to provide an aspirational and inspirational lifestyle that transcends the Cannabis cultureCurrently, there are two coffee bars / luxury Cannabis accessory shops that function as experience centers. The line of luxury men’s clothing is available at GotStyle, in the coffee shop as well as other select retailers. The line of Tokyo Smoke Cannabis is soon to be on shelf in Washington State with a first of its kind deal about to be signed in Canada.
Lanny Lipson
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- SLUSHY — Slushy is the ultimate adult social platform for new creators. Post content, grow your following, and monetize your profile all in one place. Reach new fans on day one with instant approvals and payouts on demand. Sign up and start earning today!
- Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
- Unsloth AI — Open-source LLM fine-tuning for Llama 4, Phi 4, Gemma 3, Mistral and more! Beginner friendly. Get faster with Unsloth.
Nadav Ben-Chanoch
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
- TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
- Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Robin Knox is the Founder and CEO at Boundary.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Social Network
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- DragonflAI — Phone-Based AI Moderation Moderate user-uploaded images and videos before they leave mobile devices and reach the internet. Keep your platform and servers free from indecent or illegal content.
- Handl — Handl is an online platform for vehicle & fleet servicing.
- My Probate Partner — Simplify the probate process in Scotland with expert support. Join our free webinar and book a consultation today.
W. Brett Wilson was the Co-Founder of FirstEnergy Capital. He currently worked at Canoe Financial as the Chairman.
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Lifestyle, Marketing
- Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Tokyo Smoke — Tokyo Smoke is a modern lifestyle collective and a cultural movement. Our aim is to create an immersive physical experience, across verticals that touch our hearts, with the care, craft and expertise. Fundamentally, we believe Coffee, Clothing, and Cannabis are the lifeblood of the Creative Class. The Brand Tokyo Smoke is the touchstone for beauty,design, and quality in a society hungry for inclusive but sophisticated, designer brands. The combination of creativity, passion, and originality, has formed a sophisticated urban brand that goes beyond products. By integrating into the creative drivers of consumers, those being coffee, clothing and cannabis, Tokyo Smoke can help shape how today’s individual lives their life. This puts us in a unique position to interact with consumers within multiple touch points throughout their day.Specifically, this is what the verticals allow us to do:• Coffee: the shops function as a brand experience center to host our customers and the community• Clothing: provides a foundation to interact with our customers and ambassadors across the world and to establish the legitimacy and reach of the brand• Cannabis: brings beauty, form and function to an underserved consumer, with Tokyo Smoke as the first brand to provide an aspirational and inspirational lifestyle that transcends the Cannabis cultureCurrently, there are two coffee bars / luxury Cannabis accessory shops that function as experience centers. The line of luxury men’s clothing is available at GotStyle, in the coffee shop as well as other select retailers. The line of Tokyo Smoke Cannabis is soon to be on shelf in Washington State with a first of its kind deal about to be signed in Canada.
Philip Sane
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Investment focus
- Cannabis, Craft Beer, Food Processing
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Province Brands of Canada — We are your sustainable and plant-based sweetener solution. We upcycle plant-waste biomass and transform it into food-grade sugars.
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- SLUSHY — Slushy is the ultimate adult social platform for new creators. Post content, grow your following, and monetize your profile all in one place. Reach new fans on day one with instant approvals and payouts on demand. Sign up and start earning today!
- Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
- Unsloth AI — Open-source LLM fine-tuning for Llama 4, Phi 4, Gemma 3, Mistral and more! Beginner friendly. Get faster with Unsloth.
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