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Top 50 EdTech Angel Investors in Canada in May 2026

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

Top 50 EdTech Angel Investors in Canada in May 2026

Investor EdTech Canada investments
Roger Martin 3
Neal Dempsey 3
Jacky Chen 2
Ali Moiz 2
Joel Lessem 2
Alex Khein 2
Andrew Levy 2
Osman Rashid 2
Jay Steinfeld 2
Farzad Nazem 1
Anthony Lacavera 1
Rob Goldman 1
Saar Pikar 1
Jamie O'Hara 1
Matt Wyndowe 1
Michael Kives 1
Andrew Wright 1
Jesse Ma 1
Melissa Prescott 1
Rob Henderson 1
Patrick Spaulding Ryan 1
Kirk Simpson 1
Robert Chaplinsky 1
Anil Dharni 1
Melissa Prescott 1
T. Chen Fong 1
Harry Patz 1
Rich Osborn 1
Eric Hippeau 1
Brandon Chu 1
Satish Kanwar 1
Ryan Holmes 1
Neil Wainwright 1
Joshua Landy 1
Sheldon Elman 1
Pierre Andurand 1
Jason Smith 1
Rasool Rayani 1
Jean Hammond 1
Farhan Thawar 1
Zaeem Shaukat Mirza 1
John Abele 1
Jean Desgagne 1
Irfhan Rawji 1
Michele Romanow 1
Jiawei Zhu 1
Mark Jaine 1
Paul Hill 1
Will Anderson 1
Shahin Hedayat 1

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Roger Martin
Angel

Roger Martin is Premier’s Chair in Productivity & Competitiveness and Academic Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management. From 1998 to 2013, he served as Dean. Previously, he spent 13 years as a Director of Monitor Company, a global strategy consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where heserved as co-head of the firm for two years.

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Series A
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Borrowell — 1 in 10 Canadians use Borrowell to monitor their credit. No credit card or SIN needed. We're the only free credit score app made in Canada.
  • Taplytics — Taplytics has shut down, but the same team has launched DevCycle - an intuitive new feature management platform that helps teams ship features and experiments faster.
  • Kira Talent — Make your admissions process more human. Kira transforms your admissions process with on-demand, timed video and timed written assessments. Kira works with more than 300 programs worldwide to build applicant-first assessments that identify and select their best-fit students.
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Neal Dempsey
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Neal Dempsey is the Managing Partner of Bay Partners.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Alpha Paw — Welcome to your Dog's happy place, where wagging tails are just a click away. Alpha Paw features unique pet products not sold in stores.
  • Cognota — Synapse helps companies around the world improve the productivity of their corporate learning and development teams. Our award-winning software streamlines training intake, project and capacity planning, and content design processes to make training teams more digital, agile, and efficient.This first-of-its-kind software allows our customers toget better visibility into the training needs of their businesses and consolidate the disparate tools they are using so they can access capacity data for better decision making and author course content with unprecedented speed.Collaboration with subject matter experts takes place directly within the platform ensuring knowledge is effectively captured and easy to update as required.The Synapse mission is to enable more people to learn and grow. Founded in 2015, Synapse has clients in multiple sectors and is based out of Toronto Canada with offices in San Diego and Merida, Mexico. For more information about Synapse software, visit www.getsynapse.com.
  • Cognota — Cognota is the first and only operations platform for learning and development teams. Our platform enables L&D teams to streamline training request management, improve project and capacity planning, rapidly design content and collaborate more effectively with SMEs. Clients across all industries are leveraging Cognota to improve theirproductivity by eliminating the need for multiple tools to manage learning operations.Looking to thrive in the L&D industry? Join the vibrant LearnOps® Community, a hub where L&D professionals gain insights, engage in thought-provoking discussions, access curated resources, and stay ahead of industry trends. Unlock the power of collective wisdom and experience in the #LearnOpsCommunityJoin for free at LearnOps.com
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Jacky Chen
Angel

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.

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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.
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Ali Moiz
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Ali Moiz is the Co-Founder of Stonks. He previously worked at Logitech as a General Manager. Ali Moiz attended Williams College.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Education
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Jar — Jar is a daily gold savings app that lets you save money. It invests spare change from your online transactions into digital gold, automatically. Jar is the 1st Made in India app to come up with an innovative solution to save money daily & invest in digital gold.
  • Key AI — Unlock new networking and career opportunities with Key, the leading AI-powered professional networking platform. Build and manage communities, host and join exclusive events, and create meaningful connections to supercharge your growth all in one place.
  • Justpoint — Justpoint is a venture-backed AI-first company redesigning the medical malpractice industry. Our first product allows for a faster and better understanding of the legal merits of a claim as well as an instant understanding of its likely settlement amount.We have previously created companies that effectively changed their industries, fromhealthcare insurance to clinical trial recruitment. To advance the medical malpractice industry, we have put together a team with extensive achievements in healthcare technology, medical malpractice litigation, and artificial intelligence.
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Joel Lessem
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Joel Lessem is the chief executive officer at Firmex.

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Investment focus

  • Podcast, E-Learning, Mobile Apps
  • Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • LumiQ — LumiQ makes earning CPD hours fun and accessible for individual accounting professionals and teams on-the-go. Get started now!
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Alex Khein
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Alex Khein is a Chief Executive Officer at BlueBay Asset Management.

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Investment focus

  • CRM, SaaS, Video
  • Angel, Seed
  • Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • MediaCore — Video is transforming education, and MediaCore helps hundreds of educational institutions around the world embrace it. The MediaCore Video Platform puts powerful video learning and sharing tools into the hands of every student and professor — empowering them to easily capture, manage and share video privately and securely across all platforms andmobile devices.MediaCore has received a wide range of awards, most recently being recognised by Fast Company as one of the top ten most innovative companies in digital video.
  • Believe.in — Believe.in provides a white label technology that improves online fundraising, donation processing, and event performance of non-profit organizations.Available in multiple markets, languages, and currencies, Believe.in supports 2.8 million non-profit organizations globally and is easily customized and integrated into any non-profitorganization’s website and existing back-office toolkit.Believe.in was founded in May 2011 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
  • Mile High Organics
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Andrew Levy
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Andrew is the Co-Founder and CEO at Aircover. He co-founded and served at Crittercis as CEO since 2011.Prior to starting Crittercism, Andrew Levy was the co-founder of AdThrow, a Y Combinator company that built a data processing pipeline for real-time ad targeting. Before YC,Andrew worked at HP Software where he led teams specializing in agileprogramming methodologies and advocating rapid product iterations. Andrew also worked for several companies in defense and intelligence, such as Silicon Graphics Federal, Northrop Grumman, and Computer Sciences Corp.He has a B.S. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Mobile, Software
  • Seed, Series A
  • Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Troops — Never miss a revenue signal with Troops. Easily update Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk, and Jira right from Slack and Microsoft Teams. Get started for free.
  • READY Education — Trusted by 525+ institutions to build community and drive retention, we are the leading mobile student engagement platform improving student success
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Osman Rashid
Angel · Los Altos, California, United States

Osman is a seasoned entrepreneur in the field of educational technology. He is currently the CEO of Convo Corp. and Founder & CEO of **Galxyz** , an intergalactic science adventure on a mission to ignite the fascination of science and unlock the true potential in every student. Previously he was the co-founder and CEO of online textbook rentalleader **Chegg** (NYSE:CHGG) until early 2010, and also co-founder and CEO of **Kno, Inc.** (acquired by Intel in 2013), a digital education platform company. He is also on the Board of Trustees at a health focused non-profit, ChildLife Foundation, which provides urgent care to the poorest in Karachi, Pakistan. CLF runs Karachi's largest children emergency rooms and is deploying satellite urgent care centers to provide critical care and prevention education. Osman has received several honors, including Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of The Year Award (CA) in 2009, which is the world’s most prestigious business award for entrepreneurs, as well as Forbes Impact 15 for 2012 and Inc.’s Immigrant Edge: 9 Wildly Successful Entrepreneurs.To find out more about Osman, check out his LinkedIn profile. You can also follow him on Twitter @osmanrashid.

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Investment focus

  • Apps, SaaS, Events
  • Series A, Seed
  • United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Kno — For more information, please fill out the form below. To see other domains for sale, click here.
  • Convo — Convo is an all-in-one team collaboration and communication tool. It's simple & offers all you need for a collaborative fast paced team throughput.
  • READY Education — Trusted by 525+ institutions to build community and drive retention, we are the leading mobile student engagement platform improving student success
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Jay Steinfeld
Angel · Greater Houston Area, Texas, United States

Jay Steinfeld is the founder of blinds.com .

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Software, Training
  • Series A
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Cognota — Synapse helps companies around the world improve the productivity of their corporate learning and development teams. Our award-winning software streamlines training intake, project and capacity planning, and content design processes to make training teams more digital, agile, and efficient.This first-of-its-kind software allows our customers toget better visibility into the training needs of their businesses and consolidate the disparate tools they are using so they can access capacity data for better decision making and author course content with unprecedented speed.Collaboration with subject matter experts takes place directly within the platform ensuring knowledge is effectively captured and easy to update as required.The Synapse mission is to enable more people to learn and grow. Founded in 2015, Synapse has clients in multiple sectors and is based out of Toronto Canada with offices in San Diego and Merida, Mexico. For more information about Synapse software, visit www.getsynapse.com.
  • Cognota — Cognota is the first and only operations platform for learning and development teams. Our platform enables L&D teams to streamline training request management, improve project and capacity planning, rapidly design content and collaborate more effectively with SMEs. Clients across all industries are leveraging Cognota to improve theirproductivity by eliminating the need for multiple tools to manage learning operations.Looking to thrive in the L&D industry? Join the vibrant LearnOps® Community, a hub where L&D professionals gain insights, engage in thought-provoking discussions, access curated resources, and stay ahead of industry trends. Unlock the power of collective wisdom and experience in the #LearnOpsCommunityJoin for free at LearnOps.com
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Farzad Nazem
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States

Farzad (Zod) Nazem has been a prolific angel investor and advisor to tech startup companies since his retirement from Yahoo! in 2007. He has invested in more than 60 early stage companies, and sits on the boards of Hand Foundation, and The Nueva School. His area of investment is about two thirds Big Data and Cloud platforms, and one third Healthand Medical. He was the Executive Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer of Yahoo from 1996 to mid 2007. He helped acquire and integrate over 50 companies and managed over six thousand engineers representing half of the company's employees. Between 1985 and 1996, Mr. Nazem held various software development and management positions at Oracle Corporation culminating in his role as Vice President of Media and Web Server Division. His tenure at Oracle also included membership in the company's Product Division Management Committee, which set overall strategy for Oracle products. Previously, Mr. Nazem was recruited from California Polytechnic State University by Rolm Corporation to be a software engineer in the VLCBX division. At age 19, he earned a B.S. degree in Computer Science with highest honors.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Software, Analytics
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Emailage — Emailage is a developer of fraud prevention and identity verification technology used to make transactions easier and secure. The company provides multi-faceted predictive solutions with email at the core through key partnerships, proprietary data, and advanced machine-learning technology. It proprietary algorithms in order to provide real-timealerts of risky transactions and delivers a risk score and enable companies to realize significant savings from identifying and stopping fraudulent transactions and improve customer experience.
  • Ceevra — Ceevra is an advanced 3D visualization technology for surgeons. Using AI and other innovative computing techniques, Ceevra generates brilliant 3D digital models from standard CT scans and MRIs. Surgeons use the Ceevra 3D models to help educate and counsel patients, to decide on the best surgical approach, and to gain important insights whileoperating.
  • TigerGraph — TigerGraph is the leading AI-powered graph database. Uncover hidden relationships, run real-time analytics at scale, and power fraud detection, customer 360, and AI
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Anthony Lacavera
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Anthony Lacavera founded Globalive in 1998 and serves as Chairman. Anthony also founded and was CEO of WIND Mobile, which he sold for USD$1.3 billion after it grew to become Canada’s fourth largest wireless carrier. A serial entrepreneur, he started his first business out of university with a small business loan from the Royal Bank of Canada.Anthony is also the founder of Globalive Technology, a software company focused on commercializing blockchain and artificial intelligence technologies where he serves as Chairman and CEO.As a venture capitalist, Anthony has a significant stake in dozens of startups in Canada as well as the United States. As a mentor and investor, he is heavily involved in accelerators and incubators, including MaRS, Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), NEXT Canada and the DMZ at Ryerson University. Anthony has done business in more than thirty countries, ranging from producing plays on Broadway to raising almost CAD$2 billion in private capital. He is a regular television commentator and speaker on artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship and the telecommunications industry. He was educated at the University of Toronto.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Key AI — Unlock new networking and career opportunities with Key, the leading AI-powered professional networking platform. Build and manage communities, host and join exclusive events, and create meaningful connections to supercharge your growth all in one place.
  • SeamlessMD — The #1 patient engagement platform used by health systems to elevate the patient experience, improve outcomes and lower costs. Patients access digital care plans on their devices and are guided through their health conditions or treatments via reminders, education and progress-tracking.
  • Peloton Innovations — Updated for 2026, find the best betting sites in Liberia for thrilling gaming and great odds. Join the action today!
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Rob Goldman
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Rob Goldman is the Board Member of Indiegogo. He was a VP Ads at Facebook. He attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • News, Software, Education
  • Seed
  • Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Disco — One platform to build, market, and sell live courses, workshops, and learning communities.
  • Glossi, Inc — Glossi is a publishing platform that enables anyone to create and share their own digital magazines across devices. Through a proprietary content management system and HTML-5 viewer, Glossi puts the power of magazine-style publishing and multi-screen distribution into the hands of any content creator. No design or technical skills are required toget a beautiful result. All that's needed is an idea.A Glossi can contain video, audio, animations, images and text. Pages and content can be customized with simple tools in an intuitive interface. Finished Glossies can be shared throughout the social web, viewed in the same format on every device, and each Glossi - or a collection of Glossies - can be embedded on a creator's blog or website, as well as on third party websites.
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Saar Pikar
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Saar Pikar serves as the Managing Director of OMERS Growth Equity.

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Investment focus

  • Education, EdTech, Software
  • Series D, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Ladder — We make life insurance simple. Insure the ones you love with Ladder.
  • ExecOnline — Accelerate growth through integrated leadership development. In partnership with top business schools, our integrated experience blends courses, coaching, and cohort sessions into one connected journey.
  • Parlay Ideas — Parlay is a discussion-based learning tool that allows teachers to facilitate meaningful and inclusive class discussions, that provide teachers with measurable data on student engagement and learning. We want to help students improve their critical thinking, develop their communication skills and foster a willingness to listen to others so they cantake these abilities with them into the world.
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Jamie O'Hara
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Founder and Managing Partner of Grise Global Ventures.Expertise: Venture CapitalJamie is an experienced investor, advisor, and mentor to start-up organizations. His firm has invested across numerous sectors, including education, travel, gaming, data, and, most recently, at the intersection of social media and music.He is currently anInvestor Judge in the International Start-Up Festival’s Elevator World Tour, where he is committing seed capital to early-stage companies in Tel-Aviv, Santiago, Montreal, Dubai, New York, Berlin, Barcelona, Rio, and Paris.Jamie’s experience includes portfolio management, deal structuring, and workouts. He has also worked on domestic and international oil and gas investments. He began his career on Wall Street with Cantor Fitzgerald and did stints at Disney’s ABC and in the hedge fund world before founding Grise.Jamie holds a BA in economics from the College of the Holy Cross and an MBA from Cornell University’s Johnson School of Management.He somehow managed to complete three New York City marathons and can often be found on the ice playing hockey.

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Investment focus

  • Education, Universities
  • Pre-Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • OneClass — Access millions of class notes and study guides from top students, along with textbook notes for all of your courses.
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Matt Wyndowe
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Matt Wyndowe is Head of Product Partnerships at Uber. Before that he was Product Manager for Facebook NYC where he oversaw 4 groups, including profile growth, identity accuracy and 2 to-be-announced (and pretty darn cool) product launches coming soon.Before that he was back in Menlo Park where he was the Product Manager for Facebook Apps& Games, where he oversaw product for the Facebook Platform games ecosystem. Prior to this role, Matt worked as a Manager and then Director of Business Development for 4 years, focusing on product launches (e.g. Connect) and major company partnerships (e.g. Zynga and Microsoft). Before Facebook, he founded KoboCafe, a reasonably unsuccessful app company, and worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Co. Matt has a BA in economics with a minor in computer science from McGill University, and attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford D.School. Matt lives in between SF and NYC depending where he is in his career, but is moving back to SF soon.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • StratiFi — StratiFi offers a client-profiling, risk analysis, and compliance software that makes monitoring, measuring, and communicating risk simple. The company believes in evaluating risks before chasing returns as a sound way to make strategic decisions with long-term finances in an uncertain world. StratiFi is building the technology that will become the"default" standard in the industry to evaluate and quantify hidden risks in portfolios and make investing safer, more reliable, and less volatile. The company was founded in 2008 and based in San Francisco, California.
  • Disco — One platform to build, market, and sell live courses, workshops, and learning communities.
  • Walnut — Create an interactive product demo easily with Walnut demo creation software! Customize your product demonstrations without coding, collect powerful insights, save time and resources, and master your sales experience. Discover our platform today.
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Michael Kives
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States

Michael Kives is a Co-Founder & Managing Partner of K5 Global.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Blockchain, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Audius — Audius is a music streaming and sharing platform that puts power back into the hands of content creators.
  • Disco — One platform to build, market, and sell live courses, workshops, and learning communities.
  • Haus — An alcohol brand designed for the way we drink today. Born and bottled in California, Haus is made with things you can pronounce - think chardonnay grapes. elderflower and lemon. With less alcohol than hard liquors, Haus is shipped directly to your door, so you can gather and connect on your time.
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Andrew Wright
Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States

Andrew Wright is the Managing Director of Wright Ventures. He attended the University of Southern California.

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Mobile, CRM
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Blok24 — Providing a surprisingly human shopping experience. Trusted and secure. Millions of domains to choose from.
  • Trainiac — Trainiac by Gympass helps you get into an effective exercise routine by pairing you with a dedicated fitness coach for a personalized fitness plan and weekly workouts you can do anywhere. Available exclusively for Gympass members.
  • Magicflix — Magicflix is a safe, curated video service for kids 12 years and younger. Magicflix aggregates videos from award-winning, original content creators from across the world. Magicflix provides a safe environment for children to view videos by curating them to be safe, age-appropriate and positive. Magicflix is now live on the App store. Magicflixis a Techstars Seattle 2014 startup and is based out of Seattle, WA. Magicflix is led by a strong technology team and 3 of Magicflix' 4 founders are moms including the CEO, Mamtha Banerjee. Together with it's content partners, Magicflix' mission is to make the mobile world a safer place for our children.
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Jesse Ma
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Originally from San Francisco, Jesse currently is in New York learning to code, working on some legal projects, advising startups, and teaching at Fordham Law School. He formerly was Associate Counsel at Gawker Media.

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Investment focus

  • Video, Mobile, Content
  • Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • MediaCore — Video is transforming education, and MediaCore helps hundreds of educational institutions around the world embrace it. The MediaCore Video Platform puts powerful video learning and sharing tools into the hands of every student and professor — empowering them to easily capture, manage and share video privately and securely across all platforms andmobile devices.MediaCore has received a wide range of awards, most recently being recognised by Fast Company as one of the top ten most innovative companies in digital video.
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Melissa Prescott
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Melissa Prescott

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Investment focus

  • EdTech, Content, E-Learning
  • Pre-Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Tech Spark AI — Tech Spark is Canada's first edtech company committed to culturally relevant and equitable tech education for Black and students of colour, girls, and teachers.
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Rob Henderson
Angel

Rob Henderson - CEO @ YOURIKA

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Investment focus

  • PaaS, Education, E-Learning
  • Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • YOURIKA — AI-assisted education technology and student support
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Patrick Spaulding Ryan
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Patrick Spaulding Ryan is the Co-Founder, Fractional CFO and CLO of Always Blue Games. He previously worked at TikTok as a Lead Technical Program Manager, Security + Web3 R D. Patrick Spaulding Ryan attended Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, FinTech, Software
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • United States, Mexico, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Bitwage — Payroll, invoicing & benefits for digital assets. Bitwage offers services for companies and direct to workers. Workers can sign up and get direct deposit accounts to get paid from any company or client. Workers locally receive unique digital asset benefits. Workers internationally get paid faster & cheaper than traditional wires.
  • IpiNovyx Bio — Orange Grove Bio partners with leading research universities to advance preclinical biotech programs in the oncology space. The company leverages its venture capital and drug development expertise to help patients and build biotech ecosystems.
  • Pigeon — Pigeon Loans is a peer-to-peer lending platform that facilitates loans between family, friends, and loved ones. The platform provides their users the ability to generate legal contracts, make online payments, store loan documentation, enable automatic bank withdrawals, and make international transactions, all in an easy to use interface.PigeonLoans was founded by Brian Bristol and Anna Matilde Tanga in 2020 and is based in San Diego, CA, USA.
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Kirk Simpson
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Kirk Simpson is the CEO of Confirm. He is a passionate team builder, innovator, and entrepreneur with more than two decades of experience leading disruptive technology ventures.Before his current role at Confirm, Kirk co-founded Wave Financial Inc., a company dedicated to providing financial services and software solutions to small businesses.Under his leadership as CEO, Wave expanded significantly, achieving $100M in annual revenue and growing its team to 370 employees. This growth culminated in Wave’s acquisition by H&R Block for $537M in June 2019.In the same year, Kirk’s exceptional leadership was recognized when he was named Canada’s Most Admired CEO in the growth category by Waterstone Human Capital.Beyond his role at Confirm, Kirk actively contributes to the North American startup ecosystem as an angel investor and advisor.

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Investment focus

  • Finance, Software, Sales
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Mantle — Mantle is building the next generation of tools to transform how private assets are managed.
  • Ten Key Labs — Mantle is a next generation ownership and equity management platform for modern founders, powered by AI.
  • Float Financial — Float offers modern financial services, powerful software and industry-leading support designed for every company and stage of growth. Our product suite includes corporate cards, bill pay, expense management and high-yield accounts, giving finance teams everything they need to manage spending and cash flow efficiently.
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Robert Chaplinsky
Angel · Menlo Park, California, United States

Rob Chaplinsky is the Co-Founder and Managing Director Link Ventures. Rob previously worked at Bridgescale Partners as the Managing Director. He Harvard Business School and the University of Waterloo.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Sales
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Canada

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!
  • Caribou — Thinking about refinancing your auto loan? MotoRefi offers clear guidance and expert tips to help you save money and make the best financial decision for your car or truck loan. Start saving today!
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Anil Dharni
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Anil Dharni is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sense. Attended at MIT Sloan School of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Mobile, Apps, iOS
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States, India, 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!
  • Nuzzel — Nuzzel is a professional news discovery service used by many of the top influencers in media, technology, and finance.Nuzzel was named one of the best apps of the year by Google Play, the New York Times, Fast Company, and Time Magazine.Nuzzel is backed by top Silicon Valley investors including Andreessen Horowitz, CRV, Homebrew, LowercaseCapital, Uncork Capital, Marc Benniof, and Max Levchin.
  • Rover — Rover Rover is an advanced personalization and recommendation technology app. Its Recommendation Engine is also used to power discovery on numerous third party news and media sites. Rover helps people discover content they love, that they never knew existed from a wide variety of over 15,000 topics. The recommendation engine uses machine learningto learn a user's fine-grained interests through content a user engages with while being respectful of a user's need for privacy. Rover also connects to other people who are influential in topics that care about and help discover other people with similar interests. Rover uses Machine Learning to help people discover content they love that they never knew existed.It was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
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Melissa Prescott
Angel

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Investment focus

  • EdTech, Content, E-Learning
  • Pre-Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Tech Spark AI — Tech Spark is Canada's first edtech company committed to culturally relevant and equitable tech education for Black and students of colour, girls, and teachers.
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T. Chen Fong
Angel · Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Dr. Fong is a Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary. He was formerly the Head of the Department of Radiology at the University of Calgary and the Calgary Health Region. Dr. Fong is active in funding and nurturing start-up companies. Over the past two decades, he funded over 50 companies in diverse technology sectors,with an emphasis in medical devices. Dr. Fong is the co-founder and board member of Calgary Scientific Inc. and is also on the board of Clarius Mobile Health, Cohesic Inc. and Innovere Medical. In addition to seed investing, Dr. Fong is active in the Calgary community sitting on six charitable boards and foundations.In 2015, Dr. Fong joined the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) at the University of Toronto business school as a mentor. CDL helps young entrepreneurs to shape or pivot their nascent ideas. He is widely credited with launching CDL at the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary, bringing together seasoned business leaders from Alberta, Canada and the US to grow budding companies. Dr. Fong is on the Strategic Advisory Board of CDL and a Fellow of CDL in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver. In 2017, Dr. Fong was named to the Order of Canada for his contribution to medical technology innovation and philanthropy.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Oncoustics AI — Oncoustics is creating and deploying advanced AI solutions for low cost, non-invasive surveillance, diagnostics, and treatment monitoring of diseases with high unmet clinical need. Unlike other players in the space, Oncoustics does not do image recognition. Instead, Oncoustics applies AI to raw ultrasound signals from readily available handheldultrasound devices to rapidly differentiate healthy versus diseased tissues. There's a wealth of information in these raw signals and this approach reveals novel biomarkers that can be aligned with existing standards and categorization systems. Initially targeting liver disease, a $30B global diagnostic market, Oncoustics has filed a Breakthrough Device Designation Request with the FDA for the OnX that detects liver fibrosis and the 510K is underway. Several follow-on liver products are in development. Oncoustics also has clinical data on other organ indications including prostate, kidney, breast and thyroid diseases and cancers.
  • SunGreenH2 — SunGreenH2 creates the world's highest performance advanced materials for electrolysis i.e. green hydrogen production. Achieve high efficiency, low cost green H2 production on site for your application in the Power-to-X, Hydrogen refuelling, Energy Storage and Buildings sectors. Revolutionising zero emissions and improving profitability.
  • EZee Assist — EZee Assist provides instant answers to franchisee operational questions. Continue using preferred channels of support and start receiving instant answers.
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Harry Patz
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Harry Patz is the

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Investment focus

  • Education, Universities
  • Pre-Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • OneClass — Access millions of class notes and study guides from top students, along with textbook notes for all of your courses.
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Rich Osborn
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Rich Osborn is the Managing Partner at RecapHealth Ventures. he attended Queen's University.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Canada, United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

  • Impro — Impro.AI accelerates business performance and growth with AI-powered insights and executive-level daily guidance, optimizing strategies to maximize revenue.
  • Catch+Release — Unlock the power of UGC with our comprehensive licensing platform. Use tools for video marketing, content curation, and collaboration to elevate your creative campaigns.
  • Miovision — Miovision Technologies provides software and hardware that significantly improves its clients' cost-structure and accuracy.Backed by the world’s most advanced traffic AI, our innovations in traffic signal planning and operations have made it possible for cities to improve the transportation experience for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrianssince 2005.Miovision develops intelligent technology solutions to address the challenges facing today's global transportation network and to minimize the environmental impacts of inefficient transportation flow. With offices in Kitchener, Canada and Cologne, Germany, Miovision serves over 17,000 municipalities worldwide.
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Eric Hippeau
Angel · New York, New York, United States

Eric Hippeau is a Managing Partner at Lerer Hippeau Ventures, New York’s most active early-stage technology fund. Hippeau is also Chairman of RebelMouse and co-founder of NowThis News. Hippeau is the former Chief Executive Officer of The Huffington Post and a Special Partner at Softbank Capital, where he served as Managing Partner for many years.Prior to Softbank Capital, Hippeau was Chairman and CEO of Ziff-Davis, which was the largest media company serving the technology sector. Hippeau serves on the Board of various private and public companies, including Starwood Hotels and Resorts. Eric previously worked at HuffPost as a Chief Executive Officer. He attended the Université Paris-Sorbonne.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Social Media, Mobile
  • Seed, Series B, Series C
  • United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Halp — Get more acceptances and scholarships with 1-on-1 online admissions coaching, hands-on mentorship, and university support
  • Herb — Herb is the go-to destination for weed discovery, dispensaries, strains, education, culture and community for cannabis and marijuana enthusiasts around the globe.
  • BLADE — BLADE is a technology-powered, short-distance aviation company committed to reducing travel friction by enabling cost-effective air transportation alternatives. They leverage their technology to enable travelers to utilize and enjoy air travel. BLADE arranges on-demand charter and scheduled flights across a diverse accessible fleet of helicopters,jets, turboprops, and seaplanes.BLADE operates in New York City, Long Island and the Hamptons, Los Angeles, Boston, Washington DC, and many other locations.
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Brandon Chu
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Brandon Chu is the VP Product Acceleration at Shopify. He attended the University of Toronto.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Finance, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Pipe — Get up to the full annual value of your booked monthly and quarterly contracts. Scale your business without dilution or debt.
  • Ownright — Doormat is a real estate lawyer that combines legaltech and proptech by enhancing the property legal process with advanced technology solutions online to ease the real estate buying and selling process.
  • Disco — One platform to build, market, and sell live courses, workshops, and learning communities.
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Satish Kanwar
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Satish Kanwar is a VP of Product at Shopify, where he oversees strategic product initiatives for over 1 million merchants globally. Satish led Shopify’s formative expansion from online stores to multi-channel commerce, accelerating merchants' sales across eCommerce, brick-and-mortar, and new sales channels. Satish previously co-founded userexperience studio Jet Cooper, which was acquired by Shopify in order to establish its product development footprint in Toronto. Satish is an active angel investor, public speaker, and advisor.He attended the University of Toronto Scarborough.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Mobile Apps, Art
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
  • Disco — One platform to build, market, and sell live courses, workshops, and learning communities.
  • Stadium Live Studios — Stadium Live is a unique digital world for sports & esports fans - create, connect and play with fans around the world to shape your own stadium.
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Ryan Holmes
Angel · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Ryan Holmes is the CEO and Founder of HootSuite. Thought leader, dog lover and serial entrepreneur, he has redefined the face of social media - bringing Twitter, Facebook and other social networks out of the dorm room and into the boardroom.Holmes has grown HootSuite from a lean startup to a global leader in social media with 8 million users,including 79 of the Fortune 100 companies. A college drop-out, he started a paintball company and pizza restaurant before founding Invoke Media, the company that developed HootSuite in 2009.Today, Holmes is an authority on the social business revolution, quoted in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal and called upon to speak at TEDx and SXSW Interactive Conferences. An angel investor and advisor, he mentors startups in Canada and around the world. Through HootSuite University, Holmes partners with major universities to deliver social media coursework to the next generation of business leaders.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Neil Wainwright
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Neil Wainwright is the Founder and CEO of UpHabit.

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Investment focus

  • Travel, Leisure, Podcast
  • Seed, Angel
  • Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Wishroute — Gain, retain and engage customers with conversational text messaging built for wellness apps, products and services. We do the 2-way texting for you and will help you optimize user experiences to increase revenue, engagement, conversion rates, activation rates, retention and more.
  • LumiQ — LumiQ makes earning CPD hours fun and accessible for individual accounting professionals and teams on-the-go. Get started now!
  • Pilot — Social Trip Planner that makes building an itinerary with friends easy. Easily plan trips, and see where friends have been so you can go too.
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Joshua Landy
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Joshua Landy - Founder & Chief Medical Officer @ Figure 1

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Investment focus

  • Medical, Software, Wellness
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Flipd — Flipd is the all-in-one productivity app makes you feel good about your progress. Keep track of your productivity, stay motivated, connect with others, and achieve your goals with Flipd.
  • Pathway Medical — Pathway is an accurate and efficient point-of-care reference tool that gives you rapid access to evidence-based guideline summaries, interactive algorithms, key findings from landmark trials, clinical calculators, and more. Available anytime, anywhere.
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Sheldon Elman
Angel · Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Sheldon Elman is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Esplanade Ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, Training
  • Seed, Series A
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Impro — Impro.AI accelerates business performance and growth with AI-powered insights and executive-level daily guidance, optimizing strategies to maximize revenue.
  • Babbly — Early speech therapy that turns playtime into progress
  • BrainBox AI — All-in-one platform to control & optimize your buildings. Achieve portfolio energy efficiency and sustainability with the most advanced AI technologies.
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Pierre Andurand
Angel

Pierre Andurand - CIO @ Andurand Capital

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Investment focus

  • Video, Mobile, Content
  • Angel
  • Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

  • MediaCore — Video is transforming education, and MediaCore helps hundreds of educational institutions around the world embrace it. The MediaCore Video Platform puts powerful video learning and sharing tools into the hands of every student and professor — empowering them to easily capture, manage and share video privately and securely across all platforms andmobile devices.MediaCore has received a wide range of awards, most recently being recognised by Fast Company as one of the top ten most innovative companies in digital video.
  • Novaquark — Dual Universe is a single-shard sandbox MMO focusing on emergent gameplay, and developed by Novaquark for PC.You believe in a future where games will become more than games, but rather places where meaningful adventures and learning will take place. They believe that these collective online experiences will fill more and more of their free time,becoming more and more real. They believe that fun is the future of work.
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Jason Smith
Angel · Vancouver, Alberta, Canada

Sales and marketing centric business guy. Co-founder, investor and/or early employee of four start-ups (two successes, one still grinding, one non-starter). Advisor and consultant to early stage companies. Stint as a VP at Electronic Arts. Has led product development teams, services teams, sales teams and marketing teams ranging in sizefrom a few rockstars to hundreds of employees. Success in attracting/picking/growing talent. Track record of shaping rough ideas/initiatives into successful ventures. Key roles include President, Vision Critical, a global market research software leader, and co-founder of Columbus Group, a digital agency pioneer acquired by TELUS (NYSE: TU). In 2011, at 40, my wife and I hit the reset button, bought 4 round-the-world plane tickets and travelled the world for a year with our kids. Check out the YT video @ youtube.com/onemoresmith. Now incubating two start-ups and and advising early stage companies like Strutta and Mobify.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Payments, Training
  • Seed, Series A
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Impro — Impro.AI accelerates business performance and growth with AI-powered insights and executive-level daily guidance, optimizing strategies to maximize revenue.
  • Helcim — Helcim is a payments company that lets businesses accept credit cards with ease. Helcim focuses on delivering a better payment service by making it easier to sign up, providing smarter payment tools, and making it more affordable to get paid.
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Rasool Rayani
Angel · Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Rasool is a serial entrepreneur with experience in the software, healthcare, and CPG industries. He continues to maintain his passion for technology as an active angel investor with a focus on b2b, consumer saas and health tech. Rasool maintains an active role with CEO’s as a board member, mentor and advisor. He currently serves on the boards ofthe Victoria Foundation, VIATEC, and Checkfront Software.

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Mobile, Content
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Outway — Inspiring personal bests.
  • Defined — Real-time token prices, charts, wallet tracking & trading terminal for Solana, Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Sui, BSC, Tron & many more networks
  • Cognito Health — Canada's only integrated online mental health solution. Accessible and affordable treatment for your mental health. Book a free initial assessment today.
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Jean Hammond
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Jean Hammond is an angel investor and the founder of LearnLaunch.Jean Hammond is an active angel investor usually focusing on early stage high tech start-ups. She was a founder of the Boston branch of Golden Seeds (focused on investing in women-managed businesses) and a member of Launchpad and Hub Angels. In addition to TenMarks, Jeanserves on the boards of The Technology Capital Network, Thompson Island Outward Bound and of Boston Rising. She plays or played an active board level role with a number of her Boston area investments including: Crimson Hexagon, Hire Reach, Home Portfolio, iTeam, and ZipCar. Jean is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years experience in the high-tech industry. Her entrepreneurial activities include co-founding and managing Quarry Technologies and AXON Networks and following 3Com's acquisition of AXON, focusing 3Com's WAN strategy. She earned a B.S. from Boston University and an M.S. from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where she is currently a part time Entrepreneur in Residence.

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Investment focus

  • Education, Software, EdTech
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • Zulama — Carnegie Learning is shaping the future of math learning with the best math curriculum and supplemental curricular solutions.
  • Skookii — Ask any parent and they’ll tell you the same thing: paying for the countless number of athletics, after-school care, lunch, classroom supplies, donations, field-trips, and other school-related fees is extremely difficult to keep up with. Add in multiple kids at different schools with different payment procedures and systems and the process getsdownright impossible. Ask any school business manager and they'll tell you how hard it's to collect and track payments. That's where Skookii comes in.Skookii is the first and only completely free online payment/finance system for schools and educational nonprofits. It’s simple: schools get a robust SaaS solution in less than 20 minutes and parents get a simple web/mobile app to instantly pay for their kids’ aftercare, donations, athletics, or anything else.
  • Choosito — Choosito! search and learn optimizes learning with personalized search. We analyze human language to identify quality resources that match the student's comprehension ability for any subject. Choosito! is transforming the web into a revolutionary learning tool.see less
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Farhan Thawar
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Farhan Thawar is the VP Engineering at Shopify. Attended University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Canada, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • Parallelz — Parallelz builds a platform that enables anyone to instantly create, and share “impossible” versions of their favorite mobile games.
  • Mantle — Mantle is building the next generation of tools to transform how private assets are managed.
  • Redefine — Redefine is the first AI based CI optimization platform that seamlessly integrates with your existing CI environment, allowing you to accelerate your software development cycle and reduce cloud-costs. By combining code-analysis and ML, redefine optimizes your build and reduces feedback time by over 90% for developers.
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Zaeem Shaukat Mirza
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Zaeem is a dynamic professional with a passion for launching, building, and managing global brands and companies. He has a proven track record of creating substantial revenue impact through precision marketing, demand generation, scaled customer acquisition, digital strategies, and e-commerce initiatives.With experience spanning over 90 countriesand 175 cities, Zaeem has honed his expertise in global marketing, marketing operations, growth marketing, user acquisition, digital transformation, e-commerce, online sales, customer relationship management, and demand generation at scale. He has had the privilege of working with industry-leading companies such as Rewaa, Dentsu iProspect, AmoebaCom, Qatar Airways, and Google, where he has driven scale and efficiency in global business and marketing operations.Zaeem has successfully managed diverse teams and portfolios across 24 languages, with marketing budgets exceeding $100 million, contributing to revenues in the billions. His commitment to social impact is evident through his consultancy work with various organizations in management, fundraising, and non-profit marketing.An alumnus of INSEAD, Singapore, where he graduated from the Marketing Academy, Zaeem aspires to pursue a Ph.D. in Marketing Technology. His academic credentials include being a University of Mumbai ranker, a mass communication graduate from St. Xavier’s College (Mumbai, IN), and a post-graduate in advertising management from MICA (IN).Zaeem is also a dedicated mentor and investor, driven by a desire to nurture entrepreneurs who are passionate about technology, product innovation, or social impact. His enthusiasm for continual learning sees him facilitating media and business school programs, conducting corporate workshops, and speaking at industry conferences on topics such as marketing strategy, e-commerce, brand management, and non-profit marketing.Outside of work, Zaeem enjoys slow traveling, reading, painting, exploring new business opportunities, and spending quality time with family and friends.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Equity Crowdfunding, Secondary Market, Seed
  • United States, Canada, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

  • Caary — CAARY is a digital credit, lending and payments platform, offering a corporate credit card for SMEs, including start-ups. It enables these businesses to better access credit and manage their spending, through provision of virtual and physical credit or payment cards to employees, utilizing a digital dashboard for receipt management, cardmanagement, and integration to the accounting system, eliminating time-consuming reconciliation. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Toronto, Canada.
  • UMMAH1.com — Connecting the community.
  • UMMAH1.org — Connecting the community.
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John Abele
Angel · Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States

John Abele is the Board MemberBoard at Rocky Mountain Institute. Attended Amherst College.

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Investment focus

  • Education, EdTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • Edifii — Personalized AI-guided student support.
  • InSpace — Built for educators by educators, InSpace Proximity, Inc. is a socially intuitive video learning platform that allows you to teach online the way you would in a classroom. The company's technology replicates the personal interaction students and faculty crave that was lost when colleges, universities and K-12 classrooms introduced virtualeducation. In addition to being lifelong friends, co-founders Dr. Narine Hall and Haykanush Lputyan are experts in machine learning, data science, and online video education technologies.
  • Groundwork BioAg — Explore sustainable agriculture solutions at Groundwork BioAg. Our innovative bio-based products enhance soil health, boost crop yields, and promote environmental stewardship.
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Jean Desgagne
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jean Desgagné is President and CEO, Global Enterprise Services, TMX Group, a member of TMX Group's executive management committee and is an Officer of the Corporation.Global Enterprise Services is accountable for the delivery of Technology, Operations, Transaction and Procurement Services for all of TMX.Desgagné joined The CanadianDepository for Securities Limited (CDS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of TMX Group, in 2013 from TD Bank Group where he was Senior Vice President, Trading Risk Services, holding responsibility for the independent oversight of valuation, market risk, liquidity and collateral for TD's global trading business. Prior to TD Bank, he held increasingly senior positions at some of Canada's leading financial institutions including Bank of Montreal and Union Bank of Switzerland (Canada) in areas such as treasury operations, technology, trading support and risk management.Desgagné is a Chartered Accountant and a graduate of the University of Ottawa. He currently serves on the Board of the Jean Tweed Centre, the Board of Governors of Junior Achievement of Central Ontario, and has been active in a number of other community organizations. He is a member of the President's Advisory Council for the University of Ottawa and was awarded the Trudeau Medal by the Telfer School of Management and the Queen's Jubilee Medal in 2002 in recognition of his community service.

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Investment focus

  • Podcast, E-Learning, Employment
  • Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Luminari — Canada's largest professional community of CPAs
  • LumiQ — LumiQ makes earning CPD hours fun and accessible for individual accounting professionals and teams on-the-go. Get started now!
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Irfhan Rawji
Angel · Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Irfhan is a Venture Partner with Relay Ventures, an early stage venture fund exclusively focused on mobile computing. Irfhan has been a strategic consultant, public company senior executive and investor for over 15 years. Irfhan has also served as an Adjunct Professor at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia where hetaught in the areas of finance, public policy, strategy and leadership.Irfhan presently sits on the boards of Carrot Insights and The Organic Box. He is actively involved in civic affairs as a board member of the Institute for Canadian Citizenship, Vice Chair of Glenbow Museum, member of the Harvard Business School Global Alumni Board, and member of the Calgary 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Bid Exploration Committee.Irfhan holds an MBA with High Honors from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar and a BCom with High Honours from the University of British Columbia where he was a Wesbrook Scholar. He is a recipient of The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal and Arnold Edinborough Award.Irfhan is based in our Calgary office.

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Investment focus

  • News, Training, Education
  • Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Impro — Impro.AI accelerates business performance and growth with AI-powered insights and executive-level daily guidance, optimizing strategies to maximize revenue.
  • The Logic — Canada's business and tech newsroom
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Michele Romanow
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Michele Romanow is the Co-Founder and CEO of Clearco. She previously worked at Freshii as a Director. Michele Romanow attended Queen's University.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Clearco — Clearco funds direct-to-consumer ecommerce brands. Clearco is the best funding alternative to ecommerce loans to fund inventory, marketing bills, and logistics for your ecommerce business.
  • Notary Pro — NotaryPro offers convenient notary public services for in-person and remote online notarization. Discover how we make it easy.
  • 99consumer.com — Your Trusted Consumer Review Platform!
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Jiawei Zhu
Angel · Beijing, Beijing, China

Mr. Zhu Jiawei, COO of Huobi, a Chinese well-known blockchain asset trading platform, has extensive experience and intensive research in blockchain industry. Mr. Zhu has carried out blockchain training for over 40 companies and universities such as PBoC, CITIC Securities, Financial Times, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Central Universityof Finance and Economics and Tongji University, etc.,covering blockchain technology principle, status quo of industry development, blockchain asset investment, research of emerging blockchain digital currencies, blockchain security, blockchain financial crime and control and so on. He has a unique insight in blockchain security and big data applications. His views of the blockchain industry has been cited by domestic media for many times. The blockchain research center led by Zhu Jiawei launched "Digital asset research" project with PBC School of Finance , and published the industry's first book, 'Blockchain: define the future of finance and economics'.

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Investment focus

  • EdTech
  • Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Deschool Online — An online marketplace community that connects learners with qualified and verified teaching professionals
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Mark Jaine
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Mark's leadership and pursuit of excellence have taken Intelex from a niche software provider to a major player in the global EHS and Quality software market. Mark has held various leadership positions within Intelex since he joined the company in 1999, ranging from VP Business Development to Executive Vice President, taking over as Presidentin 2006 and then President & CEO in 2009. Mark has played a founding role in almost every aspect of Intelex’s current business with key operational experience ranging from marketing to sales to services to product management to R&D to finance and human resources.Mark has made Intelex an EHSQ market leader by conceiving of many advancements that have now become industry standards, such as Intelex’s Configurable Reports tool, Configurable Dashboards, Application Builder, the first EHSQ social network with the Intelex-Exchange, and most recently with the launch of the first online/offline mobile platform with the Intelex EverSync Platform. In addition to product innovation Mark has established Intelex as a sales, services and culture leader and can often be found speaking on these topics within the technology industry. Mark has led Intelex to be a recipient of many awards, including the Deloitte’s Best Managed Companies, Fast 50 Companies, TechConnex Company of the Year, Canada’s Top Employer and Best Small/Medium Sized Employers in Canada.Mark also is a recipient of the AceTech Leadership Award from the AceTech Ontario, an association of Canadian Technology Companies, a group which Mark also serves on the board of. Mark has been the driving force behind Intelex’s ability to achieve >40% CAGR over the past 10 years and our clear vision to grow the EHSQ software market over decades to come.

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Investment focus

  • Podcast, Software, E-Learning
  • Seed
  • Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • LumiQ — LumiQ makes earning CPD hours fun and accessible for individual accounting professionals and teams on-the-go. Get started now!
  • Manifest Climate — Manifest Climate uncover the insights needed to respond to climate pressure and find climate confidence.
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Paul Hill
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Paul is an MBA graduate of Henley Management College in the UK, has a degree in Physics from Nottingham University, and has over 20 years experience in General Management and Board level positions in technology and engineering enterprises.Paul’s recent experience includes CEO and Founder of Bluefish Technologies, an innovative supplier of smartcard solutions to the Wireless Telecommunications Industry. He led the business through its growth phase including raising capital and establishing operations in Europe, Asia and Africa.Paul was a key member of the management team at ORGA Kartensysteme GmbH in Germany that restructured the business under Private Equity ownership, ultimately leading to the successful sale of the business to a large French multinational.In 2006 Paul joined C-MAC MicroTechnology, a Private Equity LBO from a large multinational, as a key member of the leadership team that transformed the business into a market leading supplier of system critical electronics and successfully divested its frequency control products group to a listed international business.Immediately prior to joining Azini, Paul was General Manager of C-MAC’s Aerospace and Defence business.Board positions include Antenova, Investis and Onespin Solutions.

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  • Apps, SaaS, Podcast
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Canada, United Kingdom

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Will Anderson
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Will Anderson is an experienced operating executive with 10+ years of experience in the technology space. After starting his career as a strategy Consultant with Monitor Group, Will joined Constellation Software’s Jonas Operating group in 2003. While with Constellation, Will led divisions in both North America and Europe, and completed three highROI acquisitions in the club, construction and logistics software spaces. In 2010 will joined Iron Data Solutions as an Executive Vice President, becoming the General Manager of the 430 person Public Sector Division in early 2012.Will’s role at Klass Capital is as the CEO of Klass Software where he is searching for mid-sized mission critical solution providers to acquire. Will holds a Bachelor of Commerce Honours Degree from Queen’s University. He lives in Toronto, with his wife of 7 years and their two children.

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, GovTech, Podcast
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, Estonia

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Shahin Hedayat
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Shahin Hedayat has a passion for high tech entrepreneurship addressing complex problems through collective human ingenuity. Shahin has been an entrepreneur since 1997 starting companies with the aim of creating social impact and economic benefits for all stakeholders. Shahin spends most of his time now on angel investment through Candou Ventureswhich he co-founded in 2015.Prior to Candou Ventures, Shahin co-founded 5 companies and served various roles as President, CEO, Chairman and Board Member. Those companies are Centillium Communication (IPO), Beceem Communication (Acquired by Broadcom), Enverv (Acquired by Semtech), Apixio (in operation) and Polyup (in operation). Centillium, Beceem and Enverv exits generated over $4B of shareholder value. Apixio and Polyup are currently operating and growing. Prior to 1997, Shahin held technical and managerial roles at Cirrus Logic for 11 years where he became VP of Engineering of a product line with $90M revenue.Shahin holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the University of Michigan (1981,1983) and is named on 9 U.S. patents.

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Investment focus

  • PaaS, EdTech, Internet
  • Series A
  • Canada

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