Top 5 Celebrity Startup Investors in Canada in May 2025
A list of 5 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Celebrity startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Celebrity companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.Top 5 Celebrity Startup Investors in Canada in May 2025
Investor | Celebrity Canada investments |
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Dream Maker Ventures (DMV) | 2 |
Slaight Communications | 1 |
Export Development Canada | 1 |
Stephen Tapp | 1 |
MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund | 1 |
Investing in early-stage tech companies with founding teams inclusive of diverse entrepreneurs such as #Women and #PersonsofColour.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Fashion
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Trust & Will — Estate planning with Trust & Will is the easiest way to create, edit, store, and share your Trust or Will legal documents. Create an estate plan today!
- GoBolt — Elevate your logistics game while reducing your carbon footprint with GoBolt, your trusted 3PL provider focused on sustainability.
- NextGen Blockchain Technologies — Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, and Finance
Slaight Communications, Inc. manages the internet radio portal Iceberg radio. The company has strategic alliances with Sirius Satellite Radio and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
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Investment focus
- Music, Retail, Big Data
- Series B, Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- SHOP.CA — SHOP.CA is the first multi-merchant marketplace built for Canadians, and managed by Canadians.In June of 2012 the site launched and now has millions of products, across 28 categories, and includes over 5000 brands.SHOP.CA provides Canadians with the brands, products and services they need and want from trusted retailers, manufacturers andservice providers, all through one universal shopping cart and one account. Through a cloud based Marketplace-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform, SHOP.CA makes it easy for approved partners to list, price and sell their products and services they have online and/or offline to Canadians, through a single destination.By integrating social elements into the eCommerce platform and user experience, SHOP.CA engages and rewards Canadians for every purchase and for social activities that lead to purchases.
- LANDR — LANDR empowers musicians to create and get heard. As a pioneer in big data and machine learning for the music industry, LANDR provides millions of independent artists and labels with a single space to learn about, collaborate on, master, release and monetize music online. Since launching in 2014, LANDR has consistently built tools that level theplaying field for musicians, combining into a self-serve platform that is affordable and invaluable at every stage of the music creation lifecycle.
- Influicity — Influicity works with brands and agencies on a wide variety of digital media aspects, from influencer marketing to custom podcasts and beyond.
Export Development Canada (EDC) is a Crown corporation dedicated to assisting Canadian businesses of all sizes in achieving global success. It provides them with the tools they need to grow their business with confidence, including trade knowledge, financial solutions, equity, insurance, and connections.
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Investment focus
- Software, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom
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- VueReal — VueReal is making micro- and nano- technology a reality by developing and commercializing platforms that enable efficient, practical, and scalable production and integration of micro-and nano- devices.
- SRTX — Discover Sheertex tights and stockings made with one of the strongest materials in the world. Sheers manufactured sustainably in Canada. No rips, runs or snags - Guaranteed.
- Nanoprecise Sci Corp — Predictive Maintenance, Automated Ai Based Predictive Maintenance, Machine Doctor, Wireless Industrial Iot Sensors, Artificial Intelligence in Maintenance, Scaling Iot Solutions
Stephen Tapp - Territory Vice President, Head of Canada @ WeWork
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Investment focus
- Celebrity, Social Media, Enterprise Software
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Influicity — Influicity works with brands and agencies on a wide variety of digital media aspects, from influencer marketing to custom podcasts and beyond.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Cyder — Cyder is an end-to-end loyalty platform that allows credit unions to seamlessly issue, redeem, and integrate white-labeled rewards into everyday banking.
- runQL — Write queries faster in a smart IDE and say goodbye to hard-to-find queries, missing documentation, and version chaos. Built for data work with support for SQL, Python, and Neo4j Cypher.
- Sprout Family — Sprout is a digital concierge service for Canadians' personal journeys to build a family.
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