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Top 50 Community Angel Investors in Canada in May 2025

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

Top 50 Community Angel Investors in Canada in May 2025

Investor Community Canada investments
Diplo (Thomas Pentz) 3
Ryan Holmes 3
Jon Oringer 2
Grace Chou 2
Jon Oringer 2
Steve Arless 2
Eric Ries 2
Nadav Ben-Chanoch 2
Manny Padda 2
Shannon Byrne Susko 2
Harley Finkelstein 2
Mo Larbi Bennis 2
Lance Tracey 2
Victoria Treyger 2
Lance Priebe 2
Jon Oringer 2
Roham Gharegozlou 2
Brian Wong 2
Bob Mason 1
Anarghya Vardhana 1
Jim Fletcher 1
Alexandra Nestertchouk 1
Benjamin Ling 1
James Pardieck 1
Ethan Oren Perlstein 1
Francois Arbour 1
José Neves 1
Paul Sabourin 1
Neil Wainwright 1
T. Chen Fong 1
Anand Agarawala 1
Ron Stevens 1
Monique Woodard 1
Brett Wilson 1
Matthew Cowan 1
Ken Miyoshi 1
Kevin Liles 1
Razor Suleman 1
David Chamandy 1
Oren Zeev 1
Tihomir Bajic 1
Craig Hunter 1
Som Seif 1
Charlie Songhurst 1
Lanny Lipson 1
James Sowers 1
Rick Marini 1
Marc Bell 1
Auren Hoffman 1
Marc Morin 1
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Diplo (Thomas Pentz) Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States
Diplo is an investor of Thomas Wesley Pentz, born November 10, 1978, better known by his stage name Diplo, is a Grammy-nominated American DJ, music producer, rapper and songwriter based in Los Angeles, California. He founded and manages record company Mad Decent, as well as co-founding the non-profit organization Heaps Decent. Amongother jobs, he has worked as a school teacher in Philadelphia. He is also the co-creator and lead member of the electronic dancehall music project, Major Lazer. His 2013 EP Revolution debuted at number 68 on the US Billboard 200.During his rise to fame, Diplo worked with British musician M.I.A., an artist who is credited with giving him exposure in his early career. Later, he and fellow M.I.A. producer Switch created a Jamaican dancehall project titled Major Lazer. Since then, Diplo has worked on production and mixtape projects with many other notable pop artists, such as Britney Spears, Beyoncé, No Doubt, Justin Bieber, Usher, Snoop Dogg, CL and G-Dragon. His alias, short for Diplodocus, derives from his childhood fascination with dinosaurs. He is the co-producer of several tracks on Madonna's 2015 album Rebel Heart (2015) and he collaborated with Skrillex to create the group Jack Ü.Source:
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Media and Entertainment, Financial Services
  • 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.
  • CXIP Labs — Welcome to CXIP Labs, makers of Holograph, a multichain digital asset protocol.
  • Stationhead — Stationhead is the place for music fans around the world to connect, listen live, and stream together.
Ryan Holmes Angel · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Ryan Holmes is the CEO and Founder of HootSuite. Thought leader, dog lover and serial entrepreneur, he has redefined the face of social media - bringing Twitter, Facebook and other social networks out of the dorm room and into the boardroom.Holmes has grown HootSuite from a lean startup to a global leader in social media with 8 million users,including 79 of the Fortune 100 companies. A college drop-out, he started a paintball company and pizza restaurant before founding Invoke Media, the company that developed HootSuite in 2009.Today, Holmes is an authority on the social business revolution, quoted in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal and called upon to speak at TEDx and SXSW Interactive Conferences. An angel investor and advisor, he mentors startups in Canada and around the world. Through HootSuite University, Holmes partners with major universities to deliver social media coursework to the next generation of business leaders.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Truss — Send and receive business payments online with no limits, no percentage fees and no bullsh*t. Bring your business payments into the 21st century.
  • Surf — Surf for Brands allows you to generate the highest quality first party data, with consumer opt-in options. Generate ethical, high quality data now - Learn more
  • Kiwi Grocery — Kiwi Grocery cuts out the grocery store and delivers direct to your door. That means you pay less for your groceries and save on costly service fees. Kiwi users save 35% on their grocery checkout totals compared to other delivery apps.
Jon Oringer Angel · Miami, Florida, United States
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.
Grace Chou Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Grace Chou is a Partner at Maveron.
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Investment focus
  • Women's, Health Care, Personal Health
  • Seed
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Blume — Hi, we're Blume and we're all up in your bathroom with products that are good for you, and the environment. Skin care, period care and body care made clean, cruelty free & vegan in North America.
Jon Oringer Angel · Miami, Florida, United States
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.
Steve Arless Angel · Baie-d'urfe, Quebec, Canada
He joined McGill in fall of 2016 as Professor of Practice in the Faculty of Medicine as part of the Department of Surgery’s cutting-edge Surgical Innovation Program. More recently, he joined one of Canada’s fastest growing medical technology accelerators, Centech, as Entrepreneur-in-Residence.
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Investment focus
  • Women's, Health Care, Personal Health
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Eli — Eli empowers women to understand their body and the transitions it goes through every day, and across life. We develop a device that uses saliva to capture hormone fluctuations at home, and an app that gives women the information they want to own their health decisions.
Eric Ries Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Eric Ries is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Long-Term Stock Exchange. He previously worked at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers as a Venture Advisor. Eric Ries attended Yale University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Serbia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Autio — HearHere is a travel audio app that shares the depth and diversity of stories - cultural, geographical, historical, and mythological.
  • Augie Studio — Helping people make more compelling videos, at a fraction of the time and effort
  • Sinatra — Sinatra is a technology company that, with its all-in-one app, aims to revolutionize the hospitality industry. It provides Sinatra Training, which enables continuous digital training for employees by allowing employers to upload content and employees to access it via the app.
Nadav Ben-Chanoch Angel · Miami, Florida, United States
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.
Manny Padda Angel · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Manny is an entrepreneur, educator, angel investor and philanthropist based in Vancouver, B.C.A self-made entrepreneur who built his first multi-million-dollar company at age 26, Manny is dedicated to providing education and mentorship to today’s youth. He is the founder of New Avenue Capital, a global firm focusing on four fundamental pillars:investment, lending, recruitment and philanthropy.Manny sits on a number of advisory boards in the education and not-for-profit sectors, and is an active advisor and angel investor in Vancouver’s tech community and around the globe. He has invested in local start-ups including Picatic, MyBestHelper, G-Kup, ShareShed and NovaBind.Manny is also the co-founder of GradusOne, an organization that connects students and new graduates with mentors and provides them with the resources they need to achieve future success. It is Manny’s personal mission to educate 1 million people worldwide.He is a graduate of Harvard Business School’s Private Equity & Venture Capital program. Manny also completed his MBA from Queen’s University and his BBA (Honours) from Simon Fraser University.
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Investment focus
  • Marketing, Communities, Local
  • Seed, Angel
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • CareCru — Donna puts growth on autopilot by syncing with your Practice Management Software in real-time, in order to find opportunities in your schedule, and fill them on your behalf.
  • Guiides — Guiides provide a frictionless online experience of discovering adventures and booking a local guide to take you there.
  • Surf — Surf for Brands allows you to generate the highest quality first party data, with consumer opt-in options. Generate ethical, high quality data now - Learn more
Shannon Byrne Susko Angel · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Shannon Byrne Susko has been working with executives and leaders who want to grow, both personally and professionally, for over 10 years. Shannon has worked with companies like Intel Wearables, Shoes.com, Hot Head Games, SAAM SMIT and Silverchef – to name a few. In 2014, she released her first book, “The Metronome Effect: The Journey to PredictableProfit.”Shannon’s technical expertise is coupled with extensive sales, marketing and operations experience. Previously, Shannon has served as president of DST Subserveo, as well as co-founder, president and CEO of Subserveo Inc. Before her time at Subserveo, she led the sale of Paradata Systems Inc. to Payment Processing Inc., where she joined their team as Executive Vice-President of Product & Technology.Shannon holds Bachelor’s degrees in Commerce and Science and a Master’s degree in Computing Science. In 2012, she also received the ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors.Shannon has been married for 15 years and lives in Whistler with her 3 children.
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Investment focus
  • Communities, Local, Internet
  • Angel
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Guiides — Guiides provide a frictionless online experience of discovering adventures and booking a local guide to take you there.
  • ShareShed — ShareShed empowers people to live an environmentally conscience, affordable, and community minded lifestyle by facilitating effortless community gear sharing. ShareShed’s online marketplace allows users to rent outdoor adventure equipment like kayaks and tents through its website and mobile app.
Harley Finkelstein Angel · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Harley Finkelstein is the Co-Founder of Firebelly Tea and the President of Shopify. He previously worked at C100 as a Board Member. Harley Finkelstein attended the University of Ottawa and Concordia University.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Foraged — 13K Followers, 701 Following, 195 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Foraged Market (@foraged.market)
  • Fleek — Fleek is a B2B Wholesale Marketplace for second-hand fashion. Our buyers are vintage stores and online resellers; our suppliers are used clothing wholesalers, rag-houses, and donation centres.
  • Super.com — Through rich rewards and everyday savings, Super helps you access more of what you want at better prices, escape overspending, and level up life.
Mo Larbi Bennis Angel
Mo Larbi Bennis
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Investment focus
  • Consumer, Nightlife, Enterprise
  • Seed, Convertible Note
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • bottlebeez — bottlebeez is a multipurpose suite of mobile and web applications aimed for consumers and businesses within the hospitality and nightlife space.
Lance Tracey Angel · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Lance Tracey - Founding Partner @ Full Stack
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Software, Communities
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Taloflow — Taloflow analyzes 4,000+ vendor data points to provide you with the best possible recommendation for cloud object storage. Complete a 5-minute use case questionnaire to get started.
  • SceneBox — SceneBox helps computer vision engineers sift through their large datasets to uncover the failure states and interesting data they need to train machine learning models faster.
  • Quantified Citizen — Join groundbreaking studies, receive rich health insights and make an impact on global health and science. Download Quantified Citizen today!
Victoria Treyger Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Victoria Treyger is the General Partner and Managing Director at Felicis Ventures. Victoria is passionate about building great brands and scaling revenue through innovative sales and marketing. She joined Kabbage because she loved the opportunity to leverage technology and data to transform how financial services are delivered to customers.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, FinTech
  • Seed, Series B, Series A
  • United States, Australia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Blume — Hi, we're Blume and we're all up in your bathroom with products that are good for you, and the environment. Skin care, period care and body care made clean, cruelty free & vegan in North America.
  • Redactive — Redactive is the AI security platform giving organizations precise, contextual control over the data employees, agents, and AI apps can access.
  • Nilus — Nilus is a plug-and-play platform that automates reconciliation, reporting, and payment workflows for finance teams. Zero dev required.
Lance Priebe Angel
Lance Priebe
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Investment focus
  • eSports, SaaS, Content Delivery Network
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • WTFast — WTFast is here to help you get rid of pesky online gaming problems and bid farewell to Fortnite lag, PUBG lag, Dota 2 lag, CSGO lag, LOL lag and hundred of other games.
  • PLAYR.gg — Surf Giveaways is the #1 platform to run giveaways, sweepstakes, and contests for gamers. Grow your audience and build your community with giveaways now!
  • Nurture — Learn Foundational Life Skills Through Immersive Play
Jon Oringer Angel · New York, New York, United States
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.
Roham Gharegozlou Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Roham is founder and CEO of Axiom Zen, an award-winning venture studio that specializes in emerging technology. Axiom Zen’s first public blockchain project, CryptoKitties, is the world’s most successful blockchain game and the first decentralized application to effectively engage a consumer audience. CryptoKitties has been covered by Fortune,Bloomberg, and the BBC, accounting for roughly a quarter of the Ethereum network’s traffic within a week of launch and introducing hundreds of thousands of new users to blockchain technology. Axiom Zen was named first among Canada’s Most Innovative Companies by Canadian Business. Their products have touched 200+ million consumers and are used by the world’s leading companies, including Facebook, Microsoft, and NASA, as well as by eminent academic institutions and government organizations. They pride themselves in diversity of talent: a team of ~80+ creatives includes published authors, over a dozen former founders, diversity from 20+ national origins, and decades of collective experience at startups and Fortune 500s alike. Axiom Zen has been working with Bitcoin and various forms of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies since 2014. Axiom Zen is also the team behind ZenHub, the world’s leading collaboration solution for technical teams using GitHub; and the developer of Timeline, named Apple’s Best App of January, Editor’s Choice in 10 countries, and Best New App in 88 countries. Axiom Zen is the creator of Toby, recognized as Top Chrome Extension of the year by both Google and Product Hunt, and the parent company of Hammer & Tusk, a leader in the world of immersive experiences (AR/VR). Axiom Zen's work has been featured in TIME Magazine, The New York Times, Vice, and Fast Company. History Prior to founding Axiom Zen, Roham served with the Rising Tide Fund bas
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Code — Code is a Canadian payment platform provider that makes it simple for web developers to collect modest payments from consumers worldwide.
  • Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
  • Open Social — A multi-chain, modular and open-source protocol providing the tools for developers to create the next generation of social apps.
Brian Wong Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Brian Wong is the co-founder and CEO of Kiip (pronounced "keep"), a category-creating mobile rewards network that is redefining mobile advertising through an innovative platform that leverages "moments of achievement" in games and apps to simultaneously benefit users, developers and advertisers. Backed by Relay Ventures,Interpublic Group, Hummer Winblad, True Ventures, Digital Garage and others, the company has raised $15.4 million in funding to date.Kiip has been named one of the world's 50 Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company, listed by Forbes as one of the 4 Hot Online Ad Companies to Put on Your Watch List and included on the Dow Jones FasTech50 List. After skipping four K-12 grades, Brian received his Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia at age 18, and shortly after became one of the youngest people to ever receive venture capital funding.He has been recognized with many awards for his accomplishments and leadership, including: the Top 20 Under 20 awards for all of Canada; Business Insider's Top 25 Under 25 in Silicon Valley, 30 Under 30 in Advertising and 18 Most Important People in Mobile Advertising; Forbes' 30 Under 30 in 2011 and 2012; Mashable's Top 5 Entrepreneurs to Watch; iMedia 25; One of AdWeek's Seven Would-be Mobile Titans; and the AdAge Creativity Top 50.Before starting Kiip, Brian led key publisher and tech partnerships at the social news website Digg.com, where he accelerated the company’s mobile presence by launching the Digg Android mobile app.
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Investment focus
  • Communities, Local, Internet
  • Angel
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Guiides — Guiides provide a frictionless online experience of discovering adventures and booking a local guide to take you there.
  • ShareShed — ShareShed empowers people to live an environmentally conscience, affordable, and community minded lifestyle by facilitating effortless community gear sharing. ShareShed’s online marketplace allows users to rent outdoor adventure equipment like kayaks and tents through its website and mobile app.
Bob Mason
Managing Director @ Project 11 Ventures Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ Argon Ventures
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Investment focus
  • Software, Apps, Financial
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Anarghya Vardhana
Partner @ Maveron
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Other
  • Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
Jim Fletcher Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jim is a 30-year veteran of the Canadian venture capital industry. He has participated actively across all funding stages from being part of founding management through personal angel investment, institutional venture capital, corporate venture investment and a variety of public and private exits. He has also been actively involved in numerouspublic policy initiatives designed to foster a healthy Canadian environment for early-stage companies and venture capital investors.Jim has been a Managing Director with Ventures West and Chrysalix Energy Management, overseen corporate venture investing as Treasurer of MacMillan Bloedel, and was founder and CEO of China Capital, CFO of the Angus Reid Group, and a Director of many technology companies. He currently chairs the Boards of Vision Critical Communications Inc., Recombo Inc. and Tyze Personal Networks Inc., and is a member of the Advisory Board of OMERS Ventures.Jim is also actively involved in the non-profit and social enterprise sector. He was a founding partner of BC Technology Social Venture Partners, has served on many other non-profit Boards and is engaged in public policy initiatives to enhance social innovation and finance.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Apps, News
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Shelfie — Shelfie is an app that connects readers and books. Shelfie lets readers digitize their paper book collections, get free or discounted ebooks of the books they own and discover their next reads.Shelfie has signed deals with over 600 publishers allowing users to download an eBook if they own a print edition for nearly 150,000 titles. Readers justtake a picture of their bookshelf (a "shelfie") and the app will identify and catalog all of their books and let them know which ones are eligible for bundling.
  • A&K Robotics — A&K Robotics | Autonomous Vehicle Systems
  • ePACT Network — ePACT's emergency forms automation helps you keep recreation programs running safely. Secure EHR, waivers, COVID-19 screening, contactless check-in and emergency communications ensure compliance while reducing the chaos and cost. Exclusive NRPA partner.
Alexandra Nestertchouk Angel · Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
Alexandra is the Founder and CEO of HopKidz.com, Mompreneur, Public Speaker, Author, Community Leader, Supporter of Women Empowerment movement, Parent's advocate, Women of Influence 2018' Nominee. Alexandra has a Business Management Degree and background in Computer Science, she is has 10+ years of hands-on experience in Business withthe focus on Business Development, Operations Management, Project Management, and Business Analysis. Alexandra is a Serial Entrepreneur, she thrives in high-paced environment and enjoys the buzz of Technology Startups.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Other, Mobile
  • Pre-Seed
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • HopKidz Technologies Inc. — B2B2C marketplace, real-time search & booking engine: parents locate a short notice childcare, book it, pay online and can either drop-off their child in as little as within 15 min or get a sitter over to their place within an hour. All caregivers are 100% screened. B2B application on EAP as back-up care, business-subsidized. First-to-market inCanada, competitors in US and Australia. World market = $200b+. Growth plan to dominate the market.
Benjamin Ling Angel · Menlo Park, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Ben Ling is an Investment Partner at Khosla Ventures, where he is focused on mobile and Internet, marketplace, consumer health and data businesses. He is an accomplished executive and angel investor, with senior operating roles at Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Badoo. His personal investments include Square, Palantir, Quora, and PracticeFusion,Fab, DogVacay, and he holds advisory roles at Pinterest and Pulse.Ben currently serves on the board of Wattpad, Tapingo, Academia.edu, TheHunt, Quantopian, and Pymetrics.At Google, he was Google’s Senior Director of Search Products and Local Business Products, including overseeing Images, Videos, Books, News and Finance. At YouTube, he was Senior Director of Partnerships and Platform, responsible for Music, Movies, Sports, News, as well as Mobile, TV, and API partnerships. In his first role at Google, Ben was the founder and GM of Google’s Commerce group, including Google Wallet and Shopping.At Facebook, Ben was Director of Facebook Platform overseeing the Facebook developer ecosystem, and led product, marketing, developer operations, partner solutions, and helped build Facebook Connect, which has helped Facebook grow across the web.Ben holds a Ph.D. and Master’s in Computer Science from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering / Computer Science with a minor in Business Administration from UC Berkeley.Ben is a Department of Defense Fellow and recipient of UC Berkeley’s Bechtel Achievement Award (Top graduating senior in College of Engineering).
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Hedge — Hedge develops a protocol that provides access to liquidity for assets on all chains.
  • Hedge Labs — Hedge Labs is a software development company that provides a decentralized liquidity platform. The company is based in Miami, Florida.
  • Odyssey — Odyssey connects families with states to get access to funding from states to use with approved vendors to customize education for children who need it most.
James Pardieck Angel
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.
Ethan Oren Perlstein Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
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.
Francois Arbour Angel · Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Francois Arbour is the Co-Founder of Angels of Many. He previously worked at Shutterstock as a VP of Product, Video & Music.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Banking, Data Integration
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Hookdeck — Hookdeck helps developers release their features faster. Less time spent developing, testing, deploying, monitoring, and troubleshooting webhooks.
  • Wingocard — Receive money instantly and shop at your favorite brands. No overdrafts, ever.
  • Marlow — 100% Organic Cotton Tampons with a plant-based applicator, paired with a the first-ever tampon lubricant for smoother insertion. You don't have to choose between comfort and sustainability.
José Neves Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
In 2008 José Neves launched Farfetch, bringing together his interests in fashion and technology, as well as his experience in design, wholesale and retail, to create a business that would celebrate and support the diversity of the global fashion industry.The seasoned entrepreneur had experienced first-hand the challenges facingbricks-and-mortar retailers wanting to expand online. His vision was to create a single portal, offering independent boutiques the opportunity to compete with the leaders of fashion e-commerce.Farfetch now comprises more than 300 boutiques, offering over 100,000 pieces from 1,000 brands. With customers in almost 190 countries, the site receives an average of 10 million monthly hits.José has been involved in the fashion start-up world since the mid-1990s when he launched footwear business SWEAR. José later founded SIX London, a fashion licensing and wholesale company selling to 600 retailers worldwide. In 2001 José opened the renowned bstore, which won the British Fashion Award for Retailer of the Year in 2006.José has received numerous accolades as an entrepreneur and for his business ventures, including The Business of Fashion's 500 People Shaping the Fashion Industry in 2013, Ernst & Young's 2013 Entrepreneur of the Year and Vogue's DirectorsOf.COM Top Entrepreneur in 2011.
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Investment focus
  • Commerce/Shopping, Community/Lifestyle, Other
  • Seed, Corporate Round
  • Spain, Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Goodee — Goodee is a home and lifestyle marketplace and an online destination for sustainable designs.
  • Neiman Marcus Group — Shop fashion's top names for women, men, and kids. Plus, check out beauty's best brands, designer jewelry, luxurious decor, and distinctive gifts for any occasion.
  • StudentFinance — Catapult your career with leading re-skilling and up-skilling bootcamps. Study now and pay us back once you land a job & start earning!
Paul Sabourin Angel
Paul Sabourin is Chairman and Chief Investment Officer at Polar Asset Management Partners. Paul received a B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1975 and an MBA from the University of Western Ontario (now Ivey) in 1980. Paul started his career at Burns Fry Ltd. in 1982, gaining experience in research and institutional equity trading. In 1987, Paulbecame a Director at Burns Fry, and a member of the Executive Committee, responsible for managing the institutional equity trading group.Paul co-founded Polar in 1991. As Chief Investment Officer, he sets investment strategy and oversees Polar’s investment management team. He also acts as Lead Portfolio Manager for Polar’s Multi-Strategy team.Paul is a member of the Ivey Advisory Board, and Chair of the Entrepreneurship Council at Western University. Paul is also a board member of Trillium Health Partners Foundation, Canadian Stage Company, and the AGO’s Canadian and Indigenous Acquisitions Committee. He actively supports the annual fundraising campaign of the United Way Toronto and is an avid collector of Canadian modern art
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Investment focus
  • Women's, Wellness, E-Commerce
  • Pre-Seed
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Marlow — 100% Organic Cotton Tampons with a plant-based applicator, paired with a the first-ever tampon lubricant for smoother insertion. You don't have to choose between comfort and sustainability.
Neil Wainwright Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Neil Wainwright is the Founder and CEO of UpHabit.
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Investment focus
  • Travel, Leisure, Podcast
  • Seed, Angel
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Wishroute — Gain, retain and engage customers with conversational text messaging built for wellness apps, products and services. We do the 2-way texting for you and will help you optimize user experiences to increase revenue, engagement, conversion rates, activation rates, retention and more.
  • LumiQ — LumiQ makes earning CPD hours fun and accessible for individual accounting professionals and teams on-the-go. Get started now!
  • Pilot — Social Trip Planner that makes building an itinerary with friends easy. Easily plan trips, and see where friends have been so you can go too.
T. Chen Fong Angel · Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Dr. Fong is a Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary. He was formerly the Head of the Department of Radiology at the University of Calgary and the Calgary Health Region. Dr. Fong is active in funding and nurturing start-up companies. Over the past two decades, he funded over 50 companies in diverse technology sectors,with an emphasis in medical devices. Dr. Fong is the co-founder and board member of Calgary Scientific Inc. and is also on the board of Clarius Mobile Health, Cohesic Inc. and Innovere Medical. In addition to seed investing, Dr. Fong is active in the Calgary community sitting on six charitable boards and foundations.In 2015, Dr. Fong joined the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) at the University of Toronto business school as a mentor. CDL helps young entrepreneurs to shape or pivot their nascent ideas. He is widely credited with launching CDL at the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary, bringing together seasoned business leaders from Alberta, Canada and the US to grow budding companies. Dr. Fong is on the Strategic Advisory Board of CDL and a Fellow of CDL in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver. In 2017, Dr. Fong was named to the Order of Canada for his contribution to medical technology innovation and philanthropy.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Oncoustics AI — Oncoustics is creating and deploying advanced AI solutions for low cost, non-invasive surveillance, diagnostics, and treatment monitoring of diseases with high unmet clinical need. Unlike other players in the space, Oncoustics does not do image recognition. Instead, Oncoustics applies AI to raw ultrasound signals from readily available handheldultrasound devices to rapidly differentiate healthy versus diseased tissues. There's a wealth of information in these raw signals and this approach reveals novel biomarkers that can be aligned with existing standards and categorization systems. Initially targeting liver disease, a $30B global diagnostic market, Oncoustics has filed a Breakthrough Device Designation Request with the FDA for the OnX that detects liver fibrosis and the 510K is underway. Several follow-on liver products are in development. Oncoustics also has clinical data on other organ indications including prostate, kidney, breast and thyroid diseases and cancers.
  • SunGreenH2 — SunGreenH2 creates the world's highest performance advanced materials for electrolysis i.e. green hydrogen production. Achieve high efficiency, low cost green H2 production on site for your application in the Power-to-X, Hydrogen refuelling, Energy Storage and Buildings sectors. Revolutionising zero emissions and improving profitability.
  • EZee Assist — EZee Assist provides instant answers to franchisee operational questions. Continue using preferred channels of support and start receiving instant answers.
Anand Agarawala Angel · New York, New York, United States
Anand Agarawala is the creator of BumpTop, an irresistible new desktop interface with a satisfyingly three-dimensional physicality and a fresh approach to interactivity.Anand completed his Master thesis in 2006 which pioneered a novel physically based desktop interface leveraging expressive power and casual nature of real desks. His Masters ofComputer Science was completed at the University of Toronto. He completed his undergraduate thesis in 2004 at the University of Calgary. In his free time, Anand enjoys competitive team sports such as hockey and basketball. He often travels to India and across Europe and North America.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Mobile, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Canada, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • Watsi — Watsi is a nonprofit that brings people together through technology to fund life-changing healthcare.
  • FANtium — Build your portfolio of sports assets, participate in their success, and become part of the team.
  • Ready Player Me — The Ready Player Me platform leverages AI, ML , and a suite of developer-first tools to empower developers to integrate avatars into their games and apps to launch faster, improve user adoption, and grow revenue through asset monetization.
Ron Stevens Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Ron is a Digital Media Software Silicon and Systems Entrepreneur. He is the founder behind award winning Mingleverse Labs Inc, Mixpo Portfolio Broadcasting and Digital 5 Inc. Other previous Start-Up successes at iCompression, Arithmos, S3 Inc. and LSI Logic Canada. Ron is an American/Canadian entrepreneur and angel investor from SiliconValley and resides in Vancouver and San Francisco. Educated in commerce and electrical engineering technology, Ron specializes only in ICT early stage start ups and has been fortunate to be either an engineer, executive or founder of seven Multi-Media software, internet communications and semiconductor start up companies, many achieving great success such as iCompression, S3 Inc, LSI Logic, Arithmos, and digital 5 Inc. Ron has in depth industry knowledge with extensive global business development experience having worked and lived in USA, Canada, Europe and Asia. In Canada, Ron is the co-founder of and current CEO of multiple award winning Mingleverse Laboratories Inc. Previously, Ron was an EIR at BC’s Yaletown Ventures and an LP in YVP II fund, along with 3 other angel investments in BC based companies including Mixpo where he served as its investor then President & CEO and board member until recently. Ron is an Active USA/Canada IT evangelist as well as past chairman of New Media BC Fusion Forum and former OACET member. In USA, Ron was the former winner of Tri-state CEO and company of the year for digital 5 inc and a member of the (NACD) National Association of Directors (http://www.nacdonline.org)
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Investment focus
  • Audio, Messaging, Real Time
  • Series A
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Mingleverse — The ability to show people what you’re talking about is essential to all the most important shared experiences, including social interactions with friends and family, collaborating with the people we work with, and teaching and being taught. A MingleRoom boldly attempts to provide an alternative to having a meeting with people in a physicalspace. A MingleRoom gives you all the same powers you have in a physical venue – talking and being heard, being able to show things to the other people present, hearing what they have to say, and being able to see what they show.A MingleRoom also gives you powers you could never have in a physical meeting, such as the ability to include people from anywhere in the world in your meeting and have access to a 10GB personal document library hosted in the cloud. Anyone can show pretty much anything to pretty much anyone in a MingleRoom. We even let you sell tickets to virtual “events” you may wish to host in your MingleRoom.A basic MingleRoom is totally free and gives you everything you need to have a really good time with friends and family. Pro Plans give you a document library and a few other whistles and bells.
Monique Woodard Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Monique Woodard is an early stage investor at the intersection of technology and newly powerful consumer groups. Her investments as a venture capital and angel investor include Blavity, Court Buddy, Mented Cosmetics, Silvernest, and many others. Today, Monique invests in the future of technology being driven by major demographic trends. She investsin companies with global ambitions who are creating technology products that meet the needs of tomorrow’s internet users.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Apps, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Eli Health — Eli Health is a health care company located in Noida.
  • Culina Health — Connect with one of Culina Health's virtual dietitians for inclusive, science-backed nutrition plans that are covered by insurance.
  • McMullen — McMullen provides a singular shopping experience that allows women to feel confident and beautiful. Founded in 2007 by Sherri McMullen in Oakland, McMullen is an all-inclusive concept shop for luxury fashion featuring emerging and established designers from around the world.
Brett Wilson Angel · Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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.
Matthew Cowan Angel · New York, New York, United States
Matthew Cowan is The Corporate Director At BitGo.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Sales/Marketing, Mobile
  • Seed, Series B, Series D
  • United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Uvaro — Start your career in tech! Learn from experienced instructors, practice new skills and get feedback in a supportive community. Sign up today!
  • Hoodline — Get breaking news from Hoodline's local reporters with stories to inform you about politics, weather, real estate, business, dining, crime, & more.
  • LUUM — LUUM is introducing automation to the beauty-services market, initially focusing on eyelash extensions, a widely popular treatment ($20B global market opportunity). Pioneering a patented combination of robotics, AI, and machine vision, LUUM applies a full set of eyelash extensions in 20 minutes (instead of 2 hours), while eliminating the costsand safety risks associated with human application.
Ken Miyoshi Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States
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.
Kevin Liles Angel · New York, New York, United States
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
Razor Suleman Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Razor Suleman is founder and chief evangelist of Achievers (formerly I Love Rewards), a company that helps organizations reward and recognize brilliant employee performance. Achievers customizes it’s solution to clients brand and culture and provides easy-to-use social technologies to create authentic moments of recognition that increase employeeengagement, retain top talent and drive business success.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, IT, Community/Lifestyle
  • Seed
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Peloton Innovations — Peloton Innovations is the world’s first startup studio aimed at disrupting the $50 billion security industry. Based in Toronto, Peloton creates impactful B2B and B2C products and services for use in the rapidly evolving protection sector.
David Chamandy Angel · Montréal, Quebec, Canada
David Chamandy - Senior Director, Investments @ Machkor Capital
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Mobile, Social
  • Angel, Series A
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Akoha — Akoha is a Montreal based developer of a new type of online / offline social multiplayer game. Their website explains the concept using a series of comics. (A screenshot is below.)Akoha Inc. is a Montreal-based social media company that leverages the Web and mobile technologies to encourage people to embrace and share special moments thatmake life a little more awesome. Akoha offers an abundance of real-world activities designed to invite people to discover life's special moments, to capture them, and to share them with friends.
  • Playerize — Playerize is a rapidly growing company that specializes in monetization and high quality user acquisition for the social and mobile gaming industry.Our acquisition of [SuperRewards][http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/super-rewards] expands our reach globally and offers customers a complete alternative payments solutionthat any developer of any size can integrate in under ten minutes.
Oren Zeev Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Oren Zeev is the Founder of and one of the two main early backers respectively, a former board member of Zeev lives in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, FinTech
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Israel, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Impala — Business Intelligence for the nonprofit world. Powerful insights for grantmakers and fundraisers who want to make more impactful decisions.
  • Fairmatic — Powered by data and AI, focused on rewarding fleet safety with savings. Finally, a smarter insurance option designed to put fleets in control.
  • Riverside.fm — Riverside.fm makes it easy for podcasters and media companies to record remote interviews in studio quality. End result? 4k video and WAV audio content.
Tihomir Bajic Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Tihomir Bajic is the CEO of LTSE Software.
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Investment focus
  • Software, CRM, Sales
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Serbia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Tenderly — Ethereum developer platform that enables you to build innovative blockchain products.
  • LeadDelta — Take your LinkedIn network to the next level with LeadDelta's CRM. Organize and manage your contacts, and collaborate with your team.
  • Orgnostic — Orgnostic is the human capital analytics platform for startups. Orgnostic provides investors and leadership teams with high-quality organizational insights that link organizational dynamics with companies’ bottom lines, creating better and more sustainable businesses for the new economy.
Craig Hunter Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
CEO at Dwelling.co, angel investor in 60+ companies. Previously was early Uber (first 50), first GM at Ritual ($160m+ raised), CEO at Bitmaker (acquired by General Assembly), and VP Growth @ ChefHero ($12m+ raised).
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Investment focus
  • Retail, Lifestyle, Home Decor
  • Seed, Series A
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Aside — Aside is the company that builds cloud-based platforms. Daffy Charitable is its first not-for-profit community platform.
  • Fable — Fable Home dinnerware brings people together for love, laughter, and storytelling by delivering gorgeous cutlery, tableware, and glassware at affordable prices.
Som Seif Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Som Seif is the Executive Chairman, Co-Founder and Interim CEO of Ether Capital. He previously worked at Claymore Investments, Inc. as a Founder and CEO. Som Seif attended the University of Toronto.
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Investment focus
  • Finance, Internet, Infrastructure
  • Seed
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Citizen Hex — Citizen Hex is an Ethereum Liquidity Company that was built for a corporation centred around acquiring, securing, and trading ERC-20 tokens. The main beneficiaries of Ethereum adoption will be the crypto-commodities that power it. Founded by Benjamin Roberts and Brett Bergmann in late 2016, Citizen Hex Inc. emerged as one of the top companies.
  • Peloton Innovations — Peloton Innovations is the world’s first startup studio aimed at disrupting the $50 billion security industry. Based in Toronto, Peloton creates impactful B2B and B2C products and services for use in the rapidly evolving protection sector.
Charlie Songhurst Angel · Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Granola — Granola takes your raw meeting notes and makes them awesome. No awkward meeting bots - just beautiful notes for you and your team, every single time.
  • Dex — Dex is a SaaS company that offers an AI assistant to act as user's personal talent agent and scan the tech market for next opportunity.
  • Grouphug — Generates memes from the archive of group WhatsApp chats
Lanny Lipson Angel · Toronto, Ontario, 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.
James Sowers Angel · Pensacola, Florida, United States
James Sowers is a Korean-American businessman and philanthropist. He is a former singer/songwriter who was abandoned at birth who had his music career tragically ended by a reckless driver in a car accident. He is currently a Director @ the GreaterGoodSociety . James is An experienced ICO and blockchain advisor.He has angel invested in over 40startups and initial coin offerings. He is also a contributor to Known Blockchain publications and has been featured in other well known financial publications.James has already made a very positive impact on the project, his vision and professionalism along with his great personality traits complement the SafeCrypt.io team in a very positive way.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Secondary Market
  • United States, Switzerland, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • BitPay — BitPay provides enterprise-grade bitcoin payment solutions for businesses and organizations. It offers RESTful API, a bitcoin paymet gateway API; and native payment protocol support, signed payment request, direct payment communication, and BIP 73 support solutions. BitPay also provides Copay, a bitcoin wallet solution with Intel hardwaresecurity integration that allows users with hardware-level protection, including private key generation, transaction signing, and private keys. It has a strategic processing relationship with Aliant Payment Systems, Inc. Anthony Gallippi and Stephen Pair founded BitPay on May 1, 2011. It has its headquarters in Atlanta in Georgia.
  • Aave — Aave is an Open Source Protocol to create Non-Custodial Liquidity Markets to earn interest on supplying and borrowing assets with a variable or stable interest rate. The protocol is designed for easy integration into your products and services.
  • Yield Guild Games — Explore the best crypto games, meet people who love the same games you do. Play for free, go on adventures, and win rewards with your crew!
Rick Marini Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Rick Marini is the Co-Founder, President and COO of Rails. He previously worked at Grindr as a Chief Operating Officer. Rick Marini attended Harvard Business School.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Pray.com — Pray.com is the #1 app in the world for daily prayer and Biblical audio content. Share inspiration, sleep better and be inspired. Make prayer a priority with Pray.
  • Stronghold — Stronghold creates virtual payment networks that enable instant settlement and interoperability between legacy and new payment networks.
  • Grove Collaborative — Grove Collaborative delivers home essentials, including household cleaning, personal care, beauty, and pet products, for a more eco-friendly and sustainable lifestyle.
Marc Bell Angel · Boca Raton, Florida, United States
Mr. Bell is a Managing Director of Marc Bell Capital Partners and Marc Bell Ventures, an investment firm based in Boca Raton, Florida. In November 2009, Mr. Bell co-founded ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc. (NYSE: ARR) and continues to serve on its Board of Directors. ARR manages over $16 billion in Agency assets. In October 2012 Mr. Bellco-founded Javelin Mortgage Investment Corp. (NYSE: JMI) in September, 2012. JMI is a hybrid mortgage REIT that manages approximately $1 billion of Agency and non-Agency assets. Mr. Bell continues to serve on its Board of Directors.Mr. Bell has significant experience in the technology sector as well. He was also the founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Globix Corporation in the1990’s. Globix at its peak was one of the world’s largest logical peers with a global network spanning more than 20,000 miles and over 1 million square feet of Internet Data Center space. In addition, Mr. Bell has founded numerous companies in his career and has been a seed investor in several start-up entities including iFilm, Vault.com, NetSat Express, EDGAR Online, Inc. , where he served as a member of the Board of Directors from 1998-2000, Earnings.com and SpamEx. He has also overseen several large scale real estate development projects in New York, London, Santa Clara and South Florida.As a producer of several successful Broadway musicals and plays (Jersey Boys, The Wedding Singer, August: Osage County, A Catered Affair, Rock of Ages) Mr. Bell has been a two-time winner of the American Theatre Wing's Tony Award (“2008 Best Play” for Pulitzer Prize winning August: Osage County and "2006 Best Musical" for Grammy Award winning Jersey Boys).Mr. Bell is also the Executive Producer and a Co-Producer of several full-length motion pictures, and he is an investor in multiple hospitality venues in NYC such as LAVO, Avenue, and Catch. Mr. Bell is a member of the Board of Trustees of New York University and New York University Langone Medical Center. He was also an adjunct professor at the Global Entrepreneurship Center of Florida International University, where he taught graduate courses in Entrepreneurship.Mr. has a Bachelor of Science from Babson College in Accounting and a Master of Science from New York University in Real Estate Development and Investment.
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Investment focus
  • Fashion, Consumer, Lifestyle
  • Seed
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Inkbox — Here to help you express you. Our tattoos last 1-2 weeks and fade as your skin naturally regenerates. Painless and easy to apply. Delivered to your doorstep.
Auren Hoffman Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Auren Hoffman is the CEO and Chief Historian of SafeGraph and he was the CEO of Rapleaf. Auren holds a B.S.E. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the UC Berkeley. He writes a blog called Summation.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Data and Analytics, Sales/Marketing
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Aside — Aside is the company that builds cloud-based platforms. Daffy Charitable is its first not-for-profit community platform.
  • Awning — Awning helps you grow your net worth through high-yield rental homes, no matter how busy you are or where you live.
  • Ex Parte — Ex Parte uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing to give customers the information they need to make better decisions and achieve a competitive advantage. Consider it Moneyball for a market that is >20 times the size of Major League Baseball.
Marc Morin Angel · Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Marc, our Chief Executive Officer, co-founded Sandvine (TSX:SVC) and served as its Chief Technology Officer, developing the company's vision and technology strategy. Prior to Sandvine, he was co-founder at PixStream which was acquired by Cisco Systems.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Series A
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Uvaro — Start your career in tech! Learn from experienced instructors, practice new skills and get feedback in a supportive community. Sign up today!
  • Dejero — Dejero delivers resilient, uninterrupted internet connectivity for data-intensive applications by intelligently combining multiple networks into a single managed service.
  • Sortable — Sortable is an agnostic, low-cost, broad spectrum platform that helps publishers unify demand partners, data, and tools. We’ve developed a best-in-class UI that contextualizes this data, allowing publishers to more deeply understand the correlation between content, marketing, and monetization.Their ultimate goal is to simplify the complexities ofpublishing operations while generating more revenue for their publisher partners.Sortable began as an online publisher, building 20 websites and apps to help consumers compare competing products in a number of categories, generating over 500 million product comparisons since their creation. In 2014, after realizing that the experience gained from building websites was better used to help fellow publishers, Sortable launched the machine learning ad optimization focused technology company that you see today.
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