# Top 20 Digital Media Angel Investors in Canada in June 2026 ## Ty Danco - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: SaaS, Mobile, Software 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. ## Michael Dornbrook - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: Mobile, Software, Health Care Michael Dornbrook Member of the Board of Directors at Modulate.ai. He attended University of Chicago during 1981-1983. ## Matt Mastracci - Type: Angel - Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Convertible Note - Focus: Legal, Software, Child Care 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 ## Jacky Chen - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology 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. ## Paul Buchheit - Type: Angel - Location: Mountain View, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care Paul Buchheit is based out of Mountain View, California and is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Standard Capital. Paul Buchheit attended Case Western Reserve University. ## Russell Siegelman - Type: Angel - Location: Minnesota City, Minnesota, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Mobile Russell Siegelman is a Lecturer at the Stanford University. ## Auren Hoffman - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Analytics, Mobile CEO, NQB8, Chm, SafeGraph. GP, Flex Capital. Fmr CEO of LiveRamp. Follow @auren ## Lauren DeLuca - Type: Angel - Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services 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. ## Sony Mordechai - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Analytics, Digital Media, Personal Finance Sony Mordechai - Chairman & CEO @ Global Eye Investments ## Naveen Jain - Type: Angel - Location: Seattle, Washington, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Web3, Music, Social Naveen Jain is the Founder and CEO of Viome Life Sciences. He previously worked at Intelius as a Founder and Chief Executive Officer. Naveen Jain attended XLRI- Xavier School of Management. ## Ronald Conway - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Social Media, Internet 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. ## Marc Morin - Type: Angel - Location: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS 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. ## Tim Draper - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School. ## Keith Bilous - Type: Angel - Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Digital Media, Media and Entertainment 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. ## Jill Rowley - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: B2B, SaaS, Marketing Automation Jill Rowley is the GTM Advisor and LP at Stage 2 Capital. ## Wayne Boulais - Type: Angel - Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Analytics, SaaS 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). ## Steven Harmer - Type: Angel - Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: TV, Video, Content Steven Harmer - Founder & CEO @ Feast ## Pieter Boekhoff - Type: Angel - Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Convertible Note - Focus: Digital Media, Retail Technology, Internet of Things Pieter Boekhoff - Founder @ The Accelerator ## Elton Pereira - Type: Angel - Location: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Video, Consumer, Lifestyle Elton Pereira is a Partner at SureSwift Capital, Co-Founder of Elton Pereira Records and an Angel Investor in STN Video. Elton Pereira attended the University of Victoria. ## David Wu - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Health Care, Mobile David Wu Is The Partner At Maveron. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co