Top 20 Digital Media Angel Investors in Canada
A list of 20 angel investors that invest in Digital media startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Digital media companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Digital Media Angel Investors in Canada
Investor | Digital Media Canada investments |
---|---|
Matt Mastracci | 1 |
Michael Dornbrook | 1 |
Pieter Boekhoff | 1 |
Jim Spatz | 1 |
Elia Mazzawi | 1 |
Ronald Conway | 1 |
Russell Siegelman | 1 |
Auren Hoffman | 1 |
Lauren DeLuca | 1 |
Tim Draper | 1 |
Keith Bilous | 1 |
Ty Danco | 1 |
Jill Rowley | 1 |
Marc Morin | 1 |
Elton Pereira | 1 |
Jacky Chen | 1 |
Sony Mordechai | 1 |
David Wu | 1 |
David Ceolin | 1 |
Naveen Jain | 1 |
Matt lives to pursue challenging technical problems and push the envelope of computing. He served as CTO of DotSpots, and previously worked on building scalable and fast solutions for energy companies, both as desktop and web applications. Along with Ryan Perry, he worked with StumbleUpon to build a newest generation of IE Toolbar prior totheir acquisition by EBay.Matt has a BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Calgary
Show more
Investment focus
- Legal, Software, Child Care
- Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- NOBAL Technologies — Adaptable to any environment, anywhere in the world, our interactive intelligent mirror solutions are designed to easily integrate with your physical space.
- Athennian — Athennian's cloud-based legal entity management software is trusted by law firms, legal departments, and corporate secretaries for entity governance and compliance. Learn more.
- CareGuide — We believe good people deserve the best care. Connect with housekeepers, nannies, pet sitters, and elder \ care providers with ease. Trusted and secure.
Michael Dornbrook Member of the Board of Directors at Modulate.ai. He attended University of Chicago during 1981-1983.
Show more
Investment focus
- Mobile, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Convertible Note, Angel
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Modulate — Modulate uses revolutionary machine learning to proactively detect and escalate toxic behavior in your game. ToxMod becomes an expert in your code of conduct and empowers your moderators to make the right decisions to protect your community from the worst behavior happening in voice chat in real time.
- Hearo.Live - Multiplayer TV — Laugh, talk, and cheer with friends while watching YouTube, Netflix, ESPN, and more in full-screen HD, like you're on a big cozy couch together. #MultiplayerTV #TheFutureOfTogether
- UptimeHealth — UptimeHealth, headquartered in Boston, MA, is a fast-growing software startup that simplifies medical device service events, purchases, and compliance practices through automation and predictive analytics.
Pieter Boekhoff - Founder @ The Accelerator
Show more
Investment focus
- Digital Media, Retail Technology, Internet of Things
- Convertible Note
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- NOBAL Technologies — Adaptable to any environment, anywhere in the world, our interactive intelligent mirror solutions are designed to easily integrate with your physical space.
Jim Spatz is the Chairman and CEO of Southwest Properties Limited, one of Atlantic Canada’s leading real estate developers. Southwest owns, operates and develops residential and commercial real estate in Atlantic Canada, extended stay accommodations across Canada, as well as a multi-unit residential portfolios in four Florida cities.
Show more
Investment focus
- Sports, Big Data, Software
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Brizi — Brizi powers fan experiences and sponsorship activations using innovative crowd-controlled camera technology in-stadium.
- Grüvi — Gruvi is a line of craft brewed alcohol-free beers & wines.
- Harbr — Harbr analyzes submissions and automatically retrieves missing information so teams can stop wasting time chasing documents.
Enterpreneur, Engineer and Angel Investor,
Show more
Investment focus
- Marketing, Real Time, Advertising
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Chango — Chango is a programmatic advertising company, purpose-built for the marketer. The company uses exclusive intent data and technology to create relevant, timely advertising campaigns, and produce rich customer insights. The company’s unique live-profile technology makes intent data available faster than anyone else to help clients efficiently buildbrand awareness, acquire new customers and retarget site visitors. Chango works with more than 60 of Fortune 500 marketers and companies such as eBay, Sears, Clorox, Sprint and Toyota. To find out more, visit: http://www.rubiconproject.com.Chango was recently acquired by Rubicon Project, a global technology company leading the automation of advertising. The acquisition allows Rubicon Project to expand its premium advertising marketplace to include intent marketing capabilities at scale. http://rubiconproject.com/
- Addictive Mobility —
- Modern City Real Estate —
Ronald Conway has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail.Ronald was previously with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions from1973-1979, and Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President and CEO from 1979-1990. He eventually took Altos public in 1982 and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) from 1991-1995. PTS went on to be acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft.Ronald has served/serves on Boards/Advisory Boards including: Twitter, Digg, Brightmail, Ask Jeeves, Rupture (acquired by EA), Associated Content (acquired by Yahoo!), Facebook, RockYou, ScanScout, Zappos, Trulia, StumbleUpon, Plaxo (acquired by Comcast), Photobucket (acquired by Fox), and Anchor Intelligence (co-founder).Ronald was recently named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top deal-makers in 2008 and is actively involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. Ronald is Vice Chairman of the UCSF Medical Foundation in SF, Board Member of The Tiger Woods Foundation, and SF Homeless Connect, and on the Benefit Committee of Ronald McDonald House, College Track, and the Blacked Eyed Peas-PeaPod Academy Foundation.Ronald is also featured in Gary Rivlin's book _The Godfather of Silicon Valley: Ronald Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms, described as 'the man who has placed more bets on Internet start-ups than anyone else in Silicon Valley.
Show more
Investment focus
- Software, Social Media, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- United States, Canada, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Kumo.AI — Query the future. Deliver predictive analytics across your enterprise in days, regardless of ML experience. Powered by cutting edge deep learning techniques.
- Synapticure — The era of personalized care is finally coming to ALS. Synapticure will give all ALS patients access to the best care while fueling the advancement of personalized treatments for every type of ALS.
- Tomorrow Farms — Tomorrow Farms is a food technology company on a mission to fuel the sustainable food revolution with irresistible food and beverage brands.
Russell Siegelman is a Lecturer at the Stanford University.
Show more
Investment focus
- Enterprise Software, Software, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Philippines
Portfolio highlights
- TeachFX — TeachFX automatically measures teacher talk vs. student talk, wait time, open-ended questions, academic language, and equitable participation using voice AI.
- Exactuals — Optimizing the payments of residuals, royalties and other complex payments. Exactuals' suite of products optimizes metadata, calculates and processes payments ensuring money gets sent quickly and accurately.
- Reset Financial Technologies — Reset is an earned-wage access platform that offers employees financial wellness and increases employee retention across industries through mission-driven technology.
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.
Show more
Investment focus
- Software, Analytics, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Calypso AI — CalypsoAI combines industry-leading AI testing and human-in-the-loop decision making to give you the confidence you need to push AI projects into production.
- Sincera — Sincera provides novel signal data to the most innovative companies in advertising technology.
Lauren DeLuca is a Founder and Managing Partner of Motivate Venture Capital, a Chicago-based Pre-Seed and Seed investor.He co-founded a family of niche FinTech firms and was an active Angel investor. In 2012, he co-founded Sailfish Systems, a managed services and market data provider for trading firms, banks, and hedge funds. Sailfish merged withVictory Networks in 2013 to serve clients across the US and Europe. The combined business was ultimately sold to QuantHouse, a Paris-based trading technology provider, in 2017.He co-founded Oxford Intelligence Partners at the beginning of 2015, a boutique stock market-analytics firm. Clients included many Fortune 500 companies before a successful exit to Q4 Inc., a Toronto-based strategic acquirer serving 1000+ clients. His personal Angel portfolio spans a multitude of B2B/B2C verticals and contains over thirty early- and growth-stage businesses, including Chime, HomeChef, TradingView, Appcast, Popular Pays, DeskPass and PostProcess Technologies. He received my MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame where he graduated Cum Laude in 2001.
Show more
Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
- Carpe — Carpe antiperspirant is the #1 solution to sweaty underarms, hands, feet, & more. An effective antiperspirant developed by our sweat experts, chemists & dermatologists.
- Hallow — Hallow is a prayer app that offers guided meditation sessions to help us grow in our faith & spiritual lives and find peace in God.
- Gatsby — Gatsby makes options trading social, commission free, and contract-fee free.
Tim Draper is the Founder of Draper Associates. He was a Member of the Advisory Board at Mode Media. He attended Harvard Business School.
Show more
Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- EtherMail — EtherMail is the Web 3.0 Email Solution setting the standard for anonymous and encrypted wallet-to-wallet communication.
- Arkam Intelligence — See intelligence on the addresses, entities, individuals, and assets most important to you.
- SignalRank Corporation — SignalRank Corporation is a FinTech company in the Venture space. It focuses on the seed stage asset class and uses data analytics to allocate capital to the best seed fund managers for their top performing companies. GPRank and CompanyRank are two proprietary algorithms it leverages to automate capital allocation. The company invests from balancesheet. Its customers are seed stage investors with outstanding companies in their portfolio.
Keith is the founder and president of content and community moderation services company, ICUC Moderation Services.Keith is a successful entrepreneur with an extensive history and proven competencies in business development, product development, sales, marketing and every other aspect of starting-up and running a business. He is relied uponby some of the biggest brands to manage their online content and protect their online communities.
Show more
Investment focus
- Digital Media, Media and Entertainment
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Underknown — We are obsessed with boiling down complex subjects in a fun, engaging way by creating factual video content that sparks imagination and educates the world about science and the humanities.
Ty Danco is an entrepreneur and angel investor out of Burlington, VT and Boston, MA. He founded eSecLending in 2000, sold to TA Associates in 2006. He co-founded BuysideFX in late 2011. More on Ty can be found at http:linkedin.com/in/tydanco.
Show more
Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Mobile
- Seed, Angel
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Brizi — Brizi powers fan experiences and sponsorship activations using innovative crowd-controlled camera technology in-stadium.
- Voatz — Voatz is a mobile election voting platform, secured via smart biometrics, real time ID verification, and the blockchain for irrefutability. Voatz enables citizens to vote in all kinds of elections or voting events via a smartphone. Past attempts at internet based voting have failed or not gone mainstream due to fundamental concerns around security,auditability, and voter anonymity. With Voatz, using biometrics for security and the Blockchain for irrefutability, it is able to tackle all challenges and significantly streamline the process of voting and identity verification.Voatz was a part of the Techstars Boston 2017 and Masschallenge Boston 2017 cohorts.The company was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
- OffGridBox — An all-in-one system using solar energy to purify water and distribute clean energy. off grid container, offgrid water, off-grid electric products, solar water box, building off grid, power in a box, off grid technology, shipping container solar system
Jill Rowley is the GTM Advisor and LP at Stage 2 Capital.
Show more
Investment focus
- B2B, SaaS, Marketing Automation
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Nudge.ai — Affinity is the most powerful relationship intelligence platform enabling teams to leverage their network to close the next big deal. Using patented technology, Affinity manages your relationships by auto-populating your CRM pipeline and unlocking introductions to decision makers.
- Vidyard — Go beyond traditional video hosting and unlock the power of video.
- Terminus — Drive more revenue with a 360-degree multi-channel experience for your target accounts.
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.
Show more
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.
Elton Pereira is the Co-Founder of Constant Content. He previously worked at The Very Good Food Company as an Angel Investor. Elton Pereira attended the University of Victoria.
Show more
Investment focus
- Video, Consumer, Lifestyle
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- STN Video — STN Video is an award-winning online video platform that solves digital video for publishers, content creators, and advertisers. STN Video supplies digital publishers with premium content, advanced player technology, and reliable revenue. With a library of up to 5,000 new videos every day, the STN Video online video platform serves over 1,800publishers and hundreds of premium content providers at zero cost. STN Video’s partners include publishers like the NY Post, NY Daily News, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, and premium content providers like MLB, NBA, Bloomberg, AP and Rolling Stone. Using the STN Video online video platform, publishers easily serve official video to keep readers engaged and on-site longer. From “sports to news”, STN Video offers publishers all the content they need to cover their sites. The combination of official, premium content, and top publishers provides a brand-safe environment for advertisers and connects content providers with a broader incremental audience. STN Video’s advanced technology sets it apart, offering the best contextually relevant content via Smart Match, an AI-powered video player. Smart Match matches articles with content from an extensive library of over 1 million videos, allowing publishers to embed relevant videos on every page automatically in seconds. The STN Video online video platform improves user experience, publisher workflow, and both its partners’ top and bottom lines. STN Video shares the revenue it generates with publishing partners and content creators while also accommodating their own advertising sales.
- Social Nature — With Social Nature, people can try natural products for FREE in exchange for writing a product review on social media, #trynatural.
Jacky is dedicated to angel investment and has built up a portfolio of more than thirty startup companies in Canada and the US. His target investments are the early-stage B2B companies with disruptive technologies and business potential in enterprise software, information technologies, MedTech, and Advanced Manufacturing.Jacky has acquiredconcrete business experiences as a successful founder in the startup ecosystem and an executive of Fortune 500 companies over two decades. His remarkable accomplishments range from building startups from scratch to leading a billion-dollar business with the leverage of 14,000 enterprise channel partners. The unique journey has shaped Jacky's outstanding of investing in early startups.Jacky holds the degrees of Mater's E.E. and MBA, and he graduated from CEIBS and The Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Show more
Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Workwolf — Workwolf is a Toronto-based start-up with a management team who has led 7 start-ups, had 2 successful exits, and has taken a company public with a $1.8B IPO. Workwolf CEO Erik Simins is an SME in HR who previously founded MAGNUS HRS, a staffing company now servicing over 150 enterprise customers. The technology at Workwolf solves two of the biggestpain points in employment: applicant filtration and verification, and does so by empowering users to identify better candidates faster. Winner of global awards in both 2020 and 2021 for innovation and market potential, Workwolf is ramping up for its multi-national roll-out with ManpowerGroup in September that will coincide with a $4.5M Seed financing round.
- Agile Devices — Agile Devices offer catheter-based interventional procedures helping patients during a stroke. It helps medical practitioners reduce the procedure time to respond to time bound emergencies.
- Traction Technology Partners — Traction is a powerful SaaS collaboration platform for evaluating, adopting and managing new technologies across the enterprise. The platform includes Project Management and CRM tools designed specifically for enterprise teams tasked with discovering and evaluating new technologies. Traction is used by IT, Innovation and Corp Dev teams toaccelerate their digital transformation projects, and to speed up the way they find, manage, and adopt new technologies. Traction also offers On-Demand Research services delivered through its platform.
Sony Mordechai - Chairman & CEO @ Global Eye Investments
Show more
Investment focus
- Analytics, Digital Media, Personal Finance
- Seed
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Vuru — Vuru's analysis engine does thousands of hours of stock analysis in seconds. It takes complex financial data and distills them down into clear, transparent reports that show investors the fundamentals that matter. These fundamentals are simple to understand so that investors of any skill level can leverage them. All of this is entirelyautomated, and completely free to our users.We provide three core products:1. In-depth stock reports based on the fundamentals of the company and its valuations. We cover over 5,500 stocks. 2. A robust portfolio tool that helps investors identify strengths and weaknesses in the stocks that they own and the overall strength of their portfolio. 3. A powerful stock screener that allows investors to easily discover stocks according to its valuation and qualitative criteria.
David Wu Is The Partner At Maveron.
Show more
Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- LIV — LIV is your complete toolset for VTubing, Mixed Reality Capture and VR native utilities like in-headset stream chat, alerts and notifications!
- Echo AI — Pathlight helps customer-facing teams hit their goals and grow faster, by giving every employee the data and communication they need to be successful.
- Volta — Design, perform and stream your own mixed reality experience in just minutes.
David Ceolin
Show more
Investment focus
- Beauty, Wellness, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round
- Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Well.ca — Well.ca is Canada's online destination for health, beauty and baby products and offers over 40,000 products with free shipping on all orders over $29. They also boast Canada's largest online assortment of Green & Natural products. With offices and a warehouse located in Guelph, Ontario, and an office in downtown Toronto, Well.ca is aproudly Canadian company that focuses on giving customers a simple and hassle-free shopping experience.
- Underknown — We are obsessed with boiling down complex subjects in a fun, engaging way by creating factual video content that sparks imagination and educates the world about science and the humanities.
Investors by industry
Health Care
Biotech
Community
Marketplace
FinTech
Impact
Proptech
Media (entertainment)
EdTech
Consumer
Climate
Energy
Hardware
Gaming
Artificial intelligence
Sustainability
Agriculture (agtech)
Venture Capital
Restaurants
Publishing
Beauty
Oil and Gas
Web3
Video Games
Food and Beverage
Clean Energy
Real Estate
Infrastructure
Big Data
Organic Food
Photography
Fashion
Education
B2B
Renewable Energy
Payments
Financial Services
Sporting Goods
Finance
Retail
Medical
Email
Wellness
Social Media
Music
Franchise
Celebrity
Android
Internet
Legal
Google
eSports
Construction
Local
Mobile
Enterprise Software
Sports
Social Network
Manufacturing
Digital Media
Facebook
Art
Recruiting
Social Impact
Automotive
Crowdfunding
Platforms
Wine And Spirits
Medical Device
Travel
Social
CleanTech
Transportation
Mobile Apps
Fitness
InsurTech
Mobile Advertising
Enterprise
Cannabis
LGBT
Biotechnology
Hospitality
Non Profit
Film
Life Science
Theatre
SaaS
Software
Cryptocurrency
Blockchain
Investors by country
Canada
United Kingdom
Ireland
Germany
South Korea
Australia
United States
India
New Zealand
Oceania
Armenia
China
Europe
Indonesia
LATAM
Middle East
Spain
Asia
Japan
South Africa
Qatar
Vietnam
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Sri Lanka
Brazil
Africa
Czech Republic
Bahrain
Belize
Bermuda
Costa Rica
Belarus
Bulgaria
Denmark
Algeria
Georgia
Gibraltar
Cameroon
Chile
Finland
Kuwait
Estonia
Israel
Jersey
Faroe Islands
Greece
Kazakhstan
Nicaragua
Philippines
Ethiopia
Ghana
Italy
Mali
Hungary
Lithuania
Cambodia
Croatia
Liechtenstein
Egypt
Kenya
Liberia
Belgium
Lebanon
Mauritius
Barbados
Morocco
Ecuador
Malaysia
France
Norway
Hong Kong
Peru
Seychelles
Myanmar
Cayman Islands
Panama
Slovenia
Malta
Mexico
Russian Federation
Rwanda
Nigeria
Serbia
Bahamas
Uzbekistan
Azerbaijan
Togo
Iraq
Iceland
Taiwan
Namibia
United Arab Emirates
Ukraine
Honduras
Sierra Leone
Isle of Man
Bolivia
Turkey
Luxembourg
Tunisia
Thailand
Pakistan
Albania
Tajikistan
Poland
Uganda
Zimbabwe
Tanzania
San Marino
Uruguay
Venezuela
Zambia
Argentina
Bangladesh
Senegal
Grenada
Jordan
Romania
Austria
Puerto Rico
Portugal
Sweden
El Salvador
Colombia
Cyprus
Latvia
Oman
Switzerland
Guatemala
Marshall Islands
Angel Investors in Canada by industry
Transportation
FinTech
Enterprise
Consumer
EdTech
Climate
Impact
SaaS
Artificial intelligence
Community
Hardware
Health Care
Gaming
Media (entertainment)
Energy
Restaurants
Venture Capital
Real Estate
Infrastructure
Mobile Apps
Fashion
Web3
Beauty
Retail
Photography
Big Data
Financial Services
Education
Cryptocurrency
Finance
Payments
Medical
Organic Food
Wine And Spirits
Video Games
Medical Device
Wellness
Sustainability
Internet
Email
Music
Social Media
Manufacturing
Art
Mobile
Digital Media
Legal
Construction
Local
Software
eSports
Sports
Enterprise Software
Travel
Fitness
CleanTech
Automotive
Hospitality
Recruiting
InsurTech
Biotechnology
Cannabis
Publishing
B2B
Oil and Gas
Renewable Energy
Blockchain
Biotech
Proptech
Platforms
Marketplace
Food and Beverage
Agriculture (agtech)
Social Network