# Top 15 Email Angel Investors in Canada in June 2026

## Scott Banister
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile

Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired byMicrosoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan.

## Cheryl Cheng
- Type: Angel
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: SaaS, Email, Content

Cheryl Cheng joined BRV in 2008.  She focuses on early stage consumer and mobile big data opportunities.  Cheryl also runs BRV’s alumni entrepreneur and Fortune 500 programs to bring experience and resources to the current portfolio.  Prior to BlueRun, Cheryl worked at Clorox and The Sharper Image launching new products and driving retail marketingwith partners across Target, Walmart and grocery.Cheryl has a B.A. from Stanford University and an MBA from Kellogg School of Management where she was a Forte Scholar.  She is a mentor at Stanford’s Bio-Design for Mobile Health course, a collaboration between Stanford’s School of Medicine and School of Engineering.

## Jayson Dacosta
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Email, Software, Web Development

Jayson Dacosta

## Alexis Ohanian
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Blockchain

Alexis Ohanian is the President and Founder of 776 Foundation. He previously worked at reddit as an Executive Chair and Board Member. Alexis Ohanian attended the University of Virginia.

## Guido Giordano
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Email, Content

Guido Giordano - Director - Venture Programs @ Invest Ottawa

## Marc-André Campagna
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Email, Software, Web Development

Marc-André Campagna is the CEO and Co-founder at Oxio.

## Vincent Thibault
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Email, Software, Web Development

Vincent Thibault Co-Founder at QScale.

## Kevin Hale
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

Kevin Hale was a partner at Y Combinator. He worked with their portfolio companies on user experience design, product development and customer support. In 2006, he co-founded Wufoo, which was one of the earliest Y Combinator funded startups. The online form builder was later acquired by SurveyMonkey. He attended

## 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.

## Steve Anderson
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

A Seattle native, Steve Anderson is a seed investor. Steve founded Baseline Ventures, a privately held early stage seed investor in 2006.Bringing his diverse experience from eBay, Microsoft, Kleiner Perkins, Starbucks and Digital Equipment Corporation, Steve founded Baseline to in order to help entrepreneurs build and grow their ideas intocompanies.  Steve was also named to the Forbes Midas list three years running (peaking at #5) for earning top returns for entrepreneurs and investors. Since its inception, Baseline has invested in more than 90 companies and helped more than 30 companies exit profitably for founders and investors alike. Baseline is proud to be a seed investor associated with the following highly promising companies: Instagram (founding investor) and Parakey (both acquired by Facebook)Heroku, ExactTarget, GoInstant and CoTweet (all acquired by Salesforce.com)Crashlytics and GeoAPI (both acquired by Twitter)IndexTank (acquired by LinkedIn)Librato (acquired by SolarWinds)Rupture (acquired by EA)Sendori (acquired by Ask.com)Versely (acquired by Cisco)Aardvark and DocVerse (both acquired by Google)Yardbarker (acquired by Fox Sports)BookFresh (acquired by Sugar Media)Cake Financial (acquired by E*Trade)ScanScout (acquired by Tremor Media)StaxNetworks (acquired by Cloudbees)Hunch (acquired by eBay)Instructables (acquired by AutoDesk)Flowtown (acquired by DemandForce)OMGPop (acquired by Zynga)Xobni (acquired by Yahoo!)Metaresolver (acquired by Millenial Media)

## Yanis Mellata
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Email, Software, Web Development

Yanis Mellata is the Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Kosy.

## Andrew Chen
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Gaming, SaaS

Andrew Chen is based out of San Francisco Bay Area and is the General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz. Andrew previously worked at HarperCollins Publishers as a Author, THE COLD START PROBLEM. Andrew attended the University of Washington.

## Philip Barclay
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Email, Software, Web Development

Philip Barclay is a co-founder and CEO at YourExtraLife.com, a real-life gaming platform.
He specializes in tech startup management, branding, copywriting, content marketing, gamification mechanics implementation, UX and UI design for iPhone, team management, and more.

## Alexi Roy
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Email, Software, Web Development

Alexi Roy

## Garry Tan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Garry Tan is based out of Mountain View, California and is the President & CEO of Y Combinator. Garry Tan attended Stanford University.

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