Top 50 Community Angel Investors in Canada in May 2026
Top 50 Community Angel Investors in Canada in May 2026
| Investor | Community Canada investments |
|---|---|
| Ryan Holmes | 3 |
| Thomas Pentz | 3 |
| Grace Chou | 2 |
| Neil Wainwright | 2 |
| Nadav Ben-Chanoch | 2 |
| Shannon Byrne Susko | 2 |
| Lance Tracey | 2 |
| Mo Larbi Bennis | 2 |
| Jon Oringer | 2 |
| Jon Oringer | 2 |
| Lance Priebe | 2 |
| Steve Arless | 2 |
| Eric Ries | 2 |
| Manny Padda | 2 |
| Brian Wong | 2 |
| Harley Finkelstein | 2 |
| Victoria Treyger | 2 |
| Roham Gharegozlou | 2 |
| Jon Oringer | 2 |
| Ethan Oren Perlstein | 1 |
| Paul Sabourin | 1 |
| Anand Agarawala | 1 |
| Brett Wilson | 1 |
| Matthew Cowan | 1 |
| Craig Hunter | 1 |
| Marc Bell | 1 |
| Auren Hoffman | 1 |
| John Nemanic | 1 |
| Lev Ekster | 1 |
| Krystle Mobayeni | 1 |
| Alexandra Nestertchouk | 1 |
| Benjamin Ling | 1 |
| Charlie Songhurst | 1 |
| Jim Fletcher | 1 |
| Francois Arbour | 1 |
| Dennis Bennie | 1 |
| Philip Sane | 1 |
| Joseph Roos | 1 |
| Tihomir Bajic | 1 |
| Som Seif | 1 |
| Colin Harris | 1 |
| Edward Lando | 1 |
| Robin Knox | 1 |
| James Pardieck | 1 |
| Razor Suleman | 1 |
| Lanny Lipson | 1 |
| Steven Simoni | 1 |
| Kathia Cambron | 1 |
| Tomas Lestrup | 1 |
| Raouf Ben-Har | 1 |
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Find investors — It's Free!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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- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Canada, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Funnel — Our revolutionary CRM property management software saves both time and money for agents and owners while making leasing more efficient.
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 managed the record company Mad Decent and co-founded the non-profit organization Heaps Decent. Among other jobs, he has worked as a schoolteacher 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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- Apps, FinTech, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- SoleSavy — Drop alerts, free raffle management, and release strategies for sneaker enthusiasts. Track 500+ stores and buy at retail with the SoleSavy DROPS app.
- JuneShine — JuneShine makes insanely delicious, better-for-you hard kombucha and canned cocktails. They're sustainably brewed, made with real ingredients, and range from 6-10% ABV. Real. Refreshing.
- MatchaBar — New Decade. New Hustle. Powered by Positivity, we're on a mission to bring matcha to the people.
Grace Chou is a Partner at Maveron.
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- 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.
Neil Wainwright is the Founder and CEO of UpHabit.
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- 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
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Swaap — We we build & operate onchain trading systems.
- micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
- Dotfile — Dotfile is the Compliance Orchestration Platform for Fintechs. Streamline KYC & KYB and scale AML/CFT due diligences over +200 countries.
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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- 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.
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- 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!
Mo Larbi Bennis
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- 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.
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- 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.
- Unsloth AI — Unsloth is an open-source, no-code web UI for training, running and exporting open models in one unified local interface.
- OneImaging — OneImaging makes life-saving diagnostics affordable, accessible, and personal. We connect employers, health plans, and members to a trusted national network of imaging centers, delivering faster answers with transparent pricing and premium care across MRIs, CT scans, ultrasounds, mammograms, X-rays and more. We serve organizations looking to control medical spend and individuals who need reliable results without delays. Every scan booked through OneImaging is proof that healthcare can be simpler, cheaper, and kinder.
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, France, United Kingdom
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- 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 — Unsloth is an open-source, no-code web UI for training, running and exporting open models in one unified local interface.
Lance Priebe
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- eSports, SaaS, Big Data
- 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 — Nurture transforms screen time into interactive stories that build curiosity, resilience, creativity, and empathy.
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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- Women's, Health Care, Personal Health
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Eli — At-home hormone testing from Eli Health: track cortisol, progesterone, and testosterone with saliva tests that deliver lab-grade results in 20 minutes.
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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- 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.
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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- Marketing, Communities, Local
- Seed, Angel
- Canada
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- 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
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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- 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 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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- 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)
- Stilla AI — Stilla is an AI-powered productivity platform that transforms how product development teams coordinate work by automating organizational alignment through workflow and AI agent orchestration.
- 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.
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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- Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- United States, Australia, Canada
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- 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.
- Midi Health — Expert care for women 40+. Made for midlife. Delivered by experienced clinicians. Covered by insurance. Book a visit today.
- Nilus — Nilus is a plug-and-play platform that automates reconciliation, reporting, and payment workflows for finance teams. Zero dev required.
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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- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a permissionless DeFi lending platform where users can lend and borrow crypto across chains, access loans, and manage digital assets in one unified liquidity protocol.
- Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
- Edgen — 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.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- ToolBelt — The only platform built specifically for licensed pros in residential construction looking for work or finding labor.
- Scaler — Scaler empowers real estate managers to protect investments, reduce operational costs, and meet reporting obligations. Our best-in-class tech delivers faster decisions, smarter strategies, and audit-ready documentation across your entire real estate portfolio
- OneImaging — OneImaging makes life-saving diagnostics affordable, accessible, and personal. We connect employers, health plans, and members to a trusted national network of imaging centers, delivering faster answers with transparent pricing and premium care across MRIs, CT scans, ultrasounds, mammograms, X-rays and more. We serve organizations looking to control medical spend and individuals who need reliable results without delays. Every scan booked through OneImaging is proof that healthcare can be simpler, cheaper, and kinder.
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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- 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.
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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- 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.
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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- Health Care, Mobile, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Estonia
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- 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.
W. Brett Wilson was the Co-Founder of FirstEnergy Capital. He currently worked at Canoe Financial as the Chairman.
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- 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.
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- SaaS, Software, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Uvaro — Remix your favorite resources and hacks with your best company content in a personalized hub that moves as fast as your team does
- Uvaro — Start your career in tech! Learn from experienced instructors, practice new skills and get feedback in a supportive community. Sign up today!
- LUUM — LUUM Lash is revolutionizing the beauty industry with the world's first robotic lash extensions. The power of machine learning, AI and robotics combine to help lash artists improve efficiency, precision and overall results.
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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- 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.
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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- 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.
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- 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.
John Nemanic
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- 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.
Lev Ekster is the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at Bowlero Corporation . Lev Ekster attended New York Law School.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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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- 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.
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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- Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Vise — Vise automates investment management for financial advisors using artificial intelligence. Vise has built a full-stack platform spanning the entire lifecycle of the advisor-client relationship, including designing personalized portfolios for clients, managing portfolios, and providing on-going intelligence. By doing so, Vise helps financialadvisors focus on their most valuable resource -- their client relationships.Vise was founded in 2016 by Samir Vasavada and Runik Mehrotra in New York, New York.
- Delighted — Delighted is the easiest and most beautiful way to measure customer happiness. Are your customers delighted? The fastest and easiest way to gather actionable feedback from your customersDelighted uses the Net Promoter System® to gather real feedback from your customers – in minutes not weeks. No technical knowledge required.Customersreceive a single question survey. They rate your product/service and provide feedback in their own words. Feedback appears instantly in your dashboard.
- Merlin Labs — Merlin is the aviation technology company propelling the future of fully autonomous flight.
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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- 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
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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- 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.
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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- 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.
- Sollum Technologies — Sollum Technologies is offers greenhouse producers the only smart LED lighting solution which dynamically reproduces the full spectrum of the sun’s natural light. It is based in Montréal (Québec, Canada), where its design, development and manufacturing activities are concentrated. It works closely with its clients to modulate and create recipesadapted to the growth cycle of each product, regardless of its native climate in the world and the location of the greenhouse. Sollum’s lighting solutions thereby provide unparalleled value in terms of energy savings, productivity and superior produce quality through a flexible, adaptive and easy-to-use application, with great respect for the environment.
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.
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- 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.
Philip Sane
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- 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
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- 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.
Tihomir Bajic is the CEO of LTSE Software.
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- 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 — LeadDelta aspires to be a single workspace for your company’s relationships. As B2B professionals, whether you are fundraising, hiring, marketing, or selling, your chances of success grow exponentially when you do it collaboratively across the team to build one integrated and cross-referenced professional network.
- 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.
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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- 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 — Updated for 2026, find the best betting sites in Liberia for thrilling gaming and great odds. Join the action today!
Colin is Chief Operating Officer of PMC-Sierra Inc. Colin is a founder of PMC-Sierra, has served as Vice President, Chief Operating Officer since February 2007. Prior to this appointment, he served as Vice President of Worldwide Operations at PMC-Sierra from July 2004 and Vice President of IC Technology from May1997 to July 2004. Colin is anelected member of the Global Semiconductor Association Board of Directors and serves on the advisory board of the Design for E-Beam (DFEB) initiative. Colin currently also serves on the board of directors for Yaletown portfolio company Redlen Technologies
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- Software, Industrial Automation, AgTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Metaspectral — Compression.ai is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of machine learning and web services. The company has developed encoding and decoding capability for images using machine learning, which achieves on-average about 95% compression rates of a raw image without significantly losing its quality.
- aDolus Technology Inc. — aDolus provides a cloud platform to safeguard critical infrastructure, brokering information about ICS and IoT software and firmware. There is a $13 billion dollar industry for protecting PC endpoints, but there’s no similar ecosystem for protecting the smart devices used in industries such as energy, medical, and transportation. Multiple vendors,platforms, and geographic locations make the problem complex, yet growing threats to systems and human safety make the need for a solution urgent. Regulation is accelerating this need. With over 50 billion devices connected to the internet, the security market for IoT is projected to reach $74 billion by 2026. This creates a massive opportunity to help critical sectors secure their smart devices. We estimate the annual TAM to be $920 million for the industrial sector alone. The medical, transportation, automotive, and defense sectors present further opportunities.aDolus is the first to market with a solution to analyze and authenticate device software. Early momentum and deep industry ties have yielded a growing database of 32 million records. Our vendor-agnostic platform positions aDolus to capture this lucrative and under-served market.
- Elevated Signals — Elevated Signals provides cannabis producers with user-friendly manufacturing software that combines digital batch production records, inventory tracking and environmental data into a single customizable platform. By digitizing how cannabis operations run and streamlining data collection and aggregation, the system helps businesses significantlylower costs, scale quickly and make more informed decisions.Elevated Signals is used by some of the largest producers in North America, as well as a growing wave of innovative mid-size and craft facilities. It is the fastest-growing regulated manufacturing execution and quality software company in Canada.
Edward Lando is the founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a co-founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Volta — Our mission is to empower brands, wholesalers, and distributors with the tools and support to thrive in today's digital economy.
- Swish Robotics — Embodied Intelligence for the Home
- Workflow — A minimalist collaboration platform for creative teams. Manage tasks, get AI reviews, and share work, all in one place.
Robin Knox is the Founder and CEO at Boundary.
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- Software, SaaS, Social Network
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- DragonflAI — Phone-Based AI Moderation Moderate user-uploaded images and videos before they leave mobile devices and reach the internet. Keep your platform and servers free from indecent or illegal content.
- Handl — Handl is an online platform for vehicle & fleet servicing.
- My Probate Partner — Simplify the probate process in Scotland with expert support. Join our free webinar and book a consultation today.
James Pardieck
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- 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.
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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- 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.
Lanny Lipson
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- 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.
Steven Simoni is the CEO and Co-Founder at Bbot.
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- 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.
Kathia Cambron
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- 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.
Tomas Lestrup
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- 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.
Raouf Ben-Har is the Co-founder at Andalusia Labs.
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- Enterprise Software, B2B, E-Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Slide — Slide enables dApps to serve effortless web3 experiences to everyday users.
- Kinetic — Real-time cryptocurrency trading platform
- Stride Labs — A protocol for multichain liquid staking in the Cosmos ecosystem
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