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Top 50 Community Angel Investors in Canada in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 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 July 2025

Investor	Community Canada investments
Ryan Holmes	3
Diplo (Thomas Pentz)	3
Victoria Treyger	2
Brian Wong	2
Roham Gharegozlou	2
Jon Oringer	2
Grace Chou	2
Jon Oringer	2
Lance Tracey	2
Manny Padda	2
Lance Priebe	2
Jon Oringer	2
Steve Arless	2
Neil Wainwright	2
Nadav Ben-Chanoch	2
Mo Larbi Bennis	2
Shannon Byrne Susko	2
Eric Ries	2
Harley Finkelstein	2
Anarghya Vardhana	1
Wayne Boulais	1
Stefan Gutsch	1
Jim Fletcher	1
Ethan Oren Perlstein	1
Francois Arbour	1
Paul Sabourin	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
Oren Zeev	1
Craig Hunter	1
Rick Marini	1
Marc Bell	1
Auren Hoffman	1
Marc Morin	1
Lev Ekster	1
Krystle Mobayeni	1
Joe Mimran	1
John Nemanic	1
Dennis Bennie	1
Dustin Plett	1
Rick Marini	1
Philip Sane	1
Joseph Roos	1
Alexandra Nestertchouk	1

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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.

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.

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:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SLUSHY — SLUSHY is a secure mobile web based platform for content creators to find, grow, & monetize their audiences. A creator first, tech-driven tool, designed with key discoverability features and audience insights. In a market where existing solutions (OnlyFans, Patreon) fall short of their creators' demands, SLUSHY provides an alternativesolution for professional content creators that prioritizes their monetization, support and management needs. SLUSHY incorporates a powerful legal framework, with robust compliance tools including simplified consent, ID verification, and content moderation. The new home of unrestricted content, SLUSHY is here.
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Unsloth AI — Open source fine-tuning & reinforcment learning (RL) for Llama 4, DeepSeek-R1, Qwen3, Gemma 3 and Mistral LLMs! Beginner friendly.

Grace Chou is a Partner at Maveron.

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 is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

SLUSHY — SLUSHY is a secure mobile web based platform for content creators to find, grow, & monetize their audiences. A creator first, tech-driven tool, designed with key discoverability features and audience insights. In a market where existing solutions (OnlyFans, Patreon) fall short of their creators' demands, SLUSHY provides an alternativesolution for professional content creators that prioritizes their monetization, support and management needs. SLUSHY incorporates a powerful legal framework, with robust compliance tools including simplified consent, ID verification, and content moderation. The new home of unrestricted content, SLUSHY is here.
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Unsloth AI — Open source fine-tuning & reinforcment learning (RL) for Llama 4, DeepSeek-R1, Qwen3, Gemma 3 and Mistral LLMs! Beginner friendly.

Lance Tracey - Founding Partner @ Full Stack

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!

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.

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

Lance Priebe

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 — Fun, science-backed learning games that build future-proof life skills like critical thinking, money smarts, healthy habits, and more. Free for now!

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SLUSHY — SLUSHY is a secure mobile web based platform for content creators to find, grow, & monetize their audiences. A creator first, tech-driven tool, designed with key discoverability features and audience insights. In a market where existing solutions (OnlyFans, Patreon) fall short of their creators' demands, SLUSHY provides an alternativesolution for professional content creators that prioritizes their monetization, support and management needs. SLUSHY incorporates a powerful legal framework, with robust compliance tools including simplified consent, ID verification, and content moderation. The new home of unrestricted content, SLUSHY is here.
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Unsloth AI — Open source fine-tuning & reinforcment learning (RL) for Llama 4, DeepSeek-R1, Qwen3, Gemma 3 and Mistral LLMs! Beginner friendly.

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.

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.

Neil Wainwright is the Founder and CEO of UpHabit.

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.

Nadav Ben-Chanoch

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.

Mo Larbi Bennis

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.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Serbia, Australia

Portfolio highlights

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.
Harmony Intelligence — AI cybersecurity products that solve your AppSec, SecOps, and corporate security challenges.

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.

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.

Partner @ Maveron

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Other
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed

Wayne Boulais is a general partner with investment focus in wireless, enterprise applications, and cleantech. Prior to joining Apex, Wayne was a founding member of the Marsh & McLennan Capital C&I Fund. He was also a partner at Marsh's, Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver Wyman) developing growth strategies for high-tech clients.Prior to Mercer, Wayne led engineering development teams for Raytheon Corporation. Wayne received his MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management, and an MS and a BS in Engineering from University of Massachusetts. Wayne currently serves on the boards of Enkata Technologies, IfByPhone, IQS, and SolFocus. He is a board observer of CombineNet and DIRTT Environmental Solutions. Wayne is also a board member of the Illinois Venture Capital Association and a supporting member of Chicago's Clean Energy Trust.Wayne's previous investments included Broadbeam (acquired by MobileAware), eCredit (acquired by Fidelity Ventures), Imaging Portals (acquired by MWA Intelligence), and RMI Corporation (acquired by NetLogic Microsystems).

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, SaaS
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Tastebud — *Tastebud Techologies, Inc. was formerly StyleSeek, Inc.*Tastebud builds mobile experiences that personalize the world around you. The Tastebud Retail platform helps drive sales at brick-and-mortar shopping centers via personalized offers, games, loyalty programs, and beacon technology. We've delighted millions of users nationwide, and arefortunate to work with hundreds of leading retailers and brands.
Visibly — Visibly is the first online vision test that can deliver a prescription for glasses or contacts. The test can be taken from anywhere, at any time, and a doctor issued prescription can be used to shop everywhere. Visibly is the manufacturer and distributor of Visibly Digital Acuity Product This product has not been approved by the FDA. The dataand recommendations made by the Visibly Digital Acuity Product are adjunctive (supporting) recommendations that will be used by an Eye Care Provider, along with your medical history and profile, prior corrective eyewear prescriptions, and subjective data provided about your vision. It is the responsibility of the patient to provide accurate information through the process as all of this information will be relied upon as accurate by the reviewing Eye Care Provider.
Context Engines — InContext is an application which automatically organizes your digital life. InContext analyzes the data and relationships from your applications (e.g. mail, contacts, calendar, Evernote, Dropbox/Google drive, desktop folders), organizes it by topic and presents related items in one contextual view ‐ “InContext." Contexts are “virtualsmart folders” which are always up‐to‐date with all the most relevant items in your projects. Breaking down app silos, Contexts help you save time, be prepared, stay organized and find what you need in an instant. InContext organizes your data the way you naturally would – by topic. InContext is the natural way to interact with your digital device. Beyond personal productivity and organization, Contexts help with collaboration. Users will be able to share complete Contexts with co‐workers.

Stefan Gutsch - Managing Director @ THE MAK'ED TEAM

Investment focus

Events, Hardware, Career Planning
Angel
Canada

Portfolio highlights

ProjectSpeaker — Book exclusive speakers like Maria Ressa for your event. ProjectSpeaker is the only agency with unique, high-profile speakers worldwide.

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.

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 will improve emergency preparedness across North America. By connecting every home and organization with shared information and resources, ePACT will have a positive impact on the safety of our communities. Its benefits will encourage users to adopt and share the system, while its tools help North Americans manage unexpected situations.

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.

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 is the Co-Founder of Angels of Many. He previously worked at Shutterstock as a VP of Product, Video & Music.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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 BCâ€™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)

Investment focus

Audio, Messaging, Real Time
Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Mingleverse — The ability to show people what youâ€™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 â€“ 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 â€œeventsâ€ 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 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.

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.

W. Brett Wilson was the Co-Founder of FirstEnergy Capital. He currently worked at Canoe Financial as the Chairman.

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 is The Corporate Director At BitGo.

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

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, CEO, and Co-Founder at 300 Entertainment. He attended Morgan State University.

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

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Linguana — Linguana builds and monetizes your fully localized YouTube channels in new languages to reach new audiences across the globe and monetize them.
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 — 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.

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).

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Pray.com — Pray.com is a social impact company driven by a mission to grow faith & cultivate community. Started by Steve Gatena and his three co-founders in 2016, the company is comprised of people from all backgrounds and is building Pray.com as the digital destination for faith. At Pray.com prayer is the priority and the Pray.com app is the easiest wayto incorporate prayer into your daily life. The Pray.com app is the world's #1 app for Daily Prayer and faith-based media content. In 2020, Pray.com became the highest-grossing religious media app in history. In addition to its explosive growth in revenue and subscribers, Pray.com became the first and only mental & spiritual health app federally approved to host the President of the United States as well as other elected officials on the platform so they could promote the power of prayer, highlight the health benefits of faith, and promote religious equity, diversity, and inclusion. As an inter-faith platform, Pray.com has brought together religious, celebrity, and political leaders across industries for major events that pray for, discuss, and act on social issues like: race relations, forced migration, and religious inclusion. Pray.com's marque events include participation from the White House, the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, the Vatican City state, the Southern Baptist Convention, and more. In addition to the success of the Pray.com app, Pray.com's marquee events, and fundraising for social causes, Pray.com's studio division has produced the largest library of Biblically inspired original content in English, Spanish, and Portuguese and its content has been syndicated across broadcast media platforms and new media platforms like SiriusXM Satellite Radio, DirectTV, and YouTube. Pray.com's mission is to grow faith & cultivate community and its vision is to create a world where everyone leaves a legacy of helping others.
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.

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.

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 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.

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, 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.

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.

Lev Ekster is the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at Bowlero Corporation . Lev Ekster attended New York Law School.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Consumer Goods, Lifestyle
Seed, Series A, Series D
United States, Canada, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Tributi — Tributi is a Colombian fintech start-up backed by Y Combinator. It is drastically reducing tax compliance friction for individuals in Latin America by automating tax filing preparation.
Elroy Air — Expanding the reach of express logistics via aerial cargo systems - safely, efficiently and autonomously.
cadence — The next generation of refillable travel containers for your personal care and toiletries. Patent-pending, leakproof and highly durable capsules made from recycled ocean-bound plastic. Sustainable and easy to use.

Krystle Mobayeni, CEO and Founder of BentoBox, knows that today, the restaurant experience starts online. With BentoBox, she helps restaurants engage with their customers online, serving as a real partner and embodying the idea of hospitality every step of the way.

Investment focus

Software, Reservations
Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Tablz — Tablz is a guest fulfillment system that solves deep guest and front of house pain points caused by playing reservation roulette with our best guests.

Joe Mimran

Investment focus

Other, Real Estate, Commerce/Shopping
Seed, Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Endy — Endy mattresses are Canadian made, beautifully crafted & amazingly comfortable. Finding the right mattress has never been more convenient and affordable. Order online today!
Goodee — Goodee is a home and lifestyle marketplace and an online destination for sustainable designs.
Lunata Beauty —

John Nemanic

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.

Dennis Bennie is a pioneer, entrepreneur and innovator in the Canadian technology industry. Over the past 20 years, Bennie's entrepreneurial management has powered Mission Electronics, Ingram Canada and Delrina. In 1997, he founded the XDL Venture Capital Fund, focusing on information technology opportunities. The $25 million fund hasyielded exceptional returns to date. One of its most noteworthy investments was a 1997 start-up, Delano Technology Corporation (NASD:DTEC). XDL Intervest, a $150 million fund was started in 1999 and is now fully invested. Bennie currently manages an experienced team investing in private equity opportunities as the XDL Capital Group. From 1988 to 1996, Mr. Bennie was CEO of Delrina Corporation, an independent software developer and publisher, which forged the new software categories of electronic forms and PC fax communications. Under Mr. Bennie's leadership, Delrina pioneered the development of PC fax software called WinFax and became a world leader in the communication software market with annual sales revenue exceeding $130 million. Listed on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, Delrina cultivated a reputation for leadership, growth and profitability, and completed several public offerings. In November 1995, the company was successfully sold to Symantec Corporation for share consideration valued at $560 million. Mr. Bennie entered the world of technology in 1979, when he co-founded Mission Electronics. He drove the expansion of this leading British audio equipment manufacturer to become a dominant force in the high-end stereo market. In 1982 he sold his interest in Mission Electronics and founded Aviva Software, an independent, mass-market software developer. Under his direction, the company expanded its scope to include software distribution and merged with Ingram Micro Inc. in 1986 to become Canada's largest software distributor. Residing in Toronto, Canada, with his wife Laura and three daughters, Dennis is an avid golfer and runner. A member of the World President's Organization, he also regularly serves on various charitable boards including the Toronto Hospital Board.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Delphia — Invest with your data, not your money.
Tread — Tread's construction fleet management software makes the business of moving construction materials easier and more profitable. Request a demo today!
Thriver — Discover, book, and manage workplace culture services and employee experiences all in one place. Empower your team with effective employee engagement activities.

Dustin is based in Toronto, Canada. He is VP Business Development at 500px.

Investment focus

Apps, Content, Internet
Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

500px — 500px is the premier community and social network for aspiring and practicing photographers. Over 15M creatives from 195 countries come to 500px to discover and share the highest-quality photography, gain global exposure, and get paid for their work and skills.The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada and was launched in 2009. 500px hasraised over $20 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Harrison Metal, ff Ventures, and other investors. In early 2018, 500px was acquired by Visual China Group.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Pray.com — Pray.com is a social impact company driven by a mission to grow faith & cultivate community. Started by Steve Gatena and his three co-founders in 2016, the company is comprised of people from all backgrounds and is building Pray.com as the digital destination for faith. At Pray.com prayer is the priority and the Pray.com app is the easiest wayto incorporate prayer into your daily life. The Pray.com app is the world's #1 app for Daily Prayer and faith-based media content. In 2020, Pray.com became the highest-grossing religious media app in history. In addition to its explosive growth in revenue and subscribers, Pray.com became the first and only mental & spiritual health app federally approved to host the President of the United States as well as other elected officials on the platform so they could promote the power of prayer, highlight the health benefits of faith, and promote religious equity, diversity, and inclusion. As an inter-faith platform, Pray.com has brought together religious, celebrity, and political leaders across industries for major events that pray for, discuss, and act on social issues like: race relations, forced migration, and religious inclusion. Pray.com's marque events include participation from the White House, the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, the Vatican City state, the Southern Baptist Convention, and more. In addition to the success of the Pray.com app, Pray.com's marquee events, and fundraising for social causes, Pray.com's studio division has produced the largest library of Biblically inspired original content in English, Spanish, and Portuguese and its content has been syndicated across broadcast media platforms and new media platforms like SiriusXM Satellite Radio, DirectTV, and YouTube. Pray.com's mission is to grow faith & cultivate community and its vision is to create a world where everyone leaves a legacy of helping others.
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.

Philip Sane

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.

Joseph Roos - Principal @ Marc Bell Ventures

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.

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.

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.

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