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Top 50 Enterprise Angel Investors in Canada in May 2025

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

Top 50 Enterprise Angel Investors in Canada in May 2025

Investor Enterprise Canada investments
Marc Morin 8
Jacky Chen 8
Barney Pell 8
James Lochrie 7
Jevon MacDonald 6
Tom Williams 6
Daniel Debow 5
Ray Muzyka 5
Ryan Holmes 5
Mark Pincus 4
Jennifer Lum 4
Rasool Rayani 4
T. Chen Fong 4
Gavin Uhma 4
Scott Banister 4
Farhan Thawar 4
Neal Dempsey 4
Jordan Banks 4
Boris Wertz 4
Patrick Lor 4
Robert Justason 3
Lance Tracey 3
Bryan W. Kerdman 3
Tobias Lütke 3
Markus Frind 3
Auren Hoffman 3
Tim Draper 3
Paul Buchheit 3
Michele Romanow 3
Manny Padda 3
Sergio A. Escobar 3
Mike Edwards 3
Mike Cegelski 3
Joseph Fung 3
Lance Priebe 3
Nitesh Banta 3
Charlie Songhurst 3
Lee Lau 3
Alex Norman 3
John Risley 3
Frederic Boulanger 3
Lisa Shields 3
Kirk Simpson 3
Brice Scheschuk 3
Dean Bakes 3
Michael Litt 3
Jon Oringer 3
Marc Altshuller 3
Matt Wyndowe 3
Max Mullen 3
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Marc Morin Angel · Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Series A
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
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  • Dejero — Dejero delivers resilient, uninterrupted internet connectivity for data-intensive applications by intelligently combining multiple networks into a single managed service.
  • Sortable — Sortable is an agnostic, low-cost, broad spectrum platform that helps publishers unify demand partners, data, and tools. We’ve developed a best-in-class UI that contextualizes this data, allowing publishers to more deeply understand the correlation between content, marketing, and monetization.Their ultimate goal is to simplify the complexities ofpublishing operations while generating more revenue for their publisher partners.Sortable began as an online publisher, building 20 websites and apps to help consumers compare competing products in a number of categories, generating over 500 million product comparisons since their creation. In 2014, after realizing that the experience gained from building websites was better used to help fellow publishers, Sortable launched the machine learning ad optimization focused technology company that you see today.
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.
Barney Pell Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Barney Pell was the co-founder, Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of LocoMobi Inc. Barney has a long history as a leading technology innovator, product visionary, entrepreneur and angel investor based in Silicon Valley. Barney is known for being an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Mayfield, a top Venture Capital firm, which he left to becomeFounder and CEO of Powerset, which built a natural-language based search engine that read each sentence in Wikipedia and answered user queries in plain English. Microsoft acquired Powerset in 2008 to help create its new search engine, Bing. Barney then served Microsoft as Search Strategist, Evangelist, and Chief Architect for Local Search at Bing, until leaving Microsoft in September 2011 to return to the start-up world full-time.Barney also has active investor, board member, and advisory roles with multiple start-up companies and non-profits across a variety of industries. Barney is Co-Founder, Vice Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Moon Express, a private company building autonomous robotic lunar landers to enable exploration and commercial development of the solar system. This builds on his earlier career managing advanced software technologies at NASA. Highlights of innovations during Barney’s career at NASA include mission critical software to support planning and collaboration for the Mars Exploration Rovers mission; Clarissa, the first spoken dialog system in space; and the development of the Remote Agent, the first AI system to fly onboard and control a deep space probe. Remote Agent is widely considered one of the top achievements in the history of Artificial Intelligence and was awarded NASA’s "software of the year" award in 1999. Barney is also Associate Founder and Trustee of Singularity University (SU), a new university created to educate leaders for life in a future driven by accelerating technological change.Other recent active angel investments and advisory positions include: Getaround, Robotex, Halcyon Molecular, SpaceX, and CrowdFlower. Recent start-ups that have had successful exits include: Appjet (now Google), Aardvark (now Google), Hot Potato (now Facebook), Etacts (now SalesForce.com), Movity (now Trulia), and LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional social network which recently went public after acquiring its hundred-millionth member.Barney received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and his B.S. degree in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and was a National Merit Scholar.Barney is a frequent speaker at conferences and universities. These include keynote talks at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the Association for Computational Linguistics, Search Marketing Expos, International Semantic Web Conference, World Wide Web Conference, the Informational Retrieval Conference, and panels at SXSW Interactive. Barney has also spoken at the NPA and IPI conferences and has been featured in all major Parking industry magazines.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Mobile, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada
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.
  • Ada — Ada is a computer software company that features a chatbot-based platform that helps enterprise businesses to automate customer experience. Its platform operates through both web and mobile machine learning engine that reduces support volume and empowers customers to find answers on their own.The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered inToronto in Canada.
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James Lochrie Angel · Calgary, Alberta, Canada
James Lochrie is an entrepreneur, angel investor, venture capitalist and volunteer. He is the Co-founder of the global fintech company Wave. He is a Partner at Thin Air Labs, overseeing Thin Air Fund 1 and the Capital team. He has worked with thousands of entrepreneurs to help them scale their companies and #BuildWhatsNext.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Analytics, Health Care
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • SomaDetect — SomaDetect measures every critical indicator of dairy quality (fat, protein, somatic cell counts, progesterone) from every cow at every milking. It uses no consumables (no chemicals, no cartridges, no lost milk), is extremely quick (results in seconds, not minutes), and accurate.
  • PayShepherd — PayShepherd helps manage contractor billing for industrial facilities and simplifies billing processes. Save time, money, and headaches.
  • StellarAlgo — Drive fan engagement and revenue across the entire fan journey. For Major Leagues, Emerging Leagues, Live Events, Media & Gaming, and Corporate Partnerships.
Jevon MacDonald Angel · Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Jevon MacDonald is the Co-Founder at StartupNorth.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Predictive Analytics, Enterprise Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Shakepay — Shakepay allows Canadians to buy/sell bitcoin and pay their friends. We're on a mission to create open access to building wealth.
  • Platformatic — OpenSource Platform for ...
  • Schematic — Convert more users, expand accounts, and prevent churn with better monetization powered by Schematic.
Tom Williams Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Tom Williams
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Unito — Enterprise-grade integrations that sync business-critical tools. Secure, low-cost, two-way sync that anyone can set up and manage.
  • Delphia — Invest with your data, not your money.
  • NorthOne — NorthOne is an online Business Account with built-in features to make business banking fast and easy. No overdraft fees. No minimum balance. No hidden fees.
Daniel Debow Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Daniel is the Vice President of Product (Demand) at Shopify. He previously worked as an SVP at Salesforce.com, where he drives marketing for Salesforce Work.com, a sales performance management solution that helps Facebook, LinkedIn, Spotify, and other innovative companies align, motivate, and drive the performance of their sales teams. Prior tojoining Salesforce, Daniel was co-founder and co-CEO of Rypple, a social performance management platform acquired by Salesforce in 2012. Prior to Rypple, Daniel was on the founding team of Workbrain, which provided workforce management solutions to Wal-Mart, Citibank, and other large enterprises. Workbrain grew to $100 million in annual revenues before being acquired by Infor in 2007.A sought after speaker on how social media is changing the workplace, Daniel is a contributor to Fortune.com and the Huffington Post. He’s been widely quoted in Wired, the Financial Times, the Economist and Bloomberg Businessweek. Daniel holds a JD/MBA from the University of Toronto and an LLM in Law, Science and Technology from Stanford University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Shakepay — Shakepay allows Canadians to buy/sell bitcoin and pay their friends. We're on a mission to create open access to building wealth.
  • Spatial — Experience virtual NFT art exhibitions, meetups, and live events together with lifelike avatars. Customize beautiful 3D spaces. Join now from Web, Mobile, & VR.
  • Haloo — Navigating the trademark search and registration process can be daunting and onerous for business owners and entrepreneurs. Heirlume is the first self-serve online trademark search and registration platform that integrates sophisticated legal thinking with technology. We make the complex trademark search and registration process fast, accurate,trusted and affordable for entrepreneurs and enterprise/e-com partners. Our search tool instantly runs the country-specific legal tests (i.e., “likelihood of confusion”) and performs lawyer analysis. Intelligent search algorithms provide an at-a-glance opinion of registerability (conflicts, descriptiveness, obscenity), displayed in simple visuals. Distilling the multiple data sets involved with drafting a trademark application requires time-consuming legal analysis. Our machine learning auto-suggest trademark application builder performs the lawyer work and removes room for error. While our first go to market strategy will target SME individual users, we see huge potential in expanding our market reach through key B2B partnerships as an upsell/add-on to a domain purchase (GoDaddy), or store set-up (Shopify or Amazon). Ultimately, we believe we can make trademark registration quick, easy and affordable, similar to the experience of registering a domain.
Ray Muzyka Angel · Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Originally trained as a medical doctor, Dr. Ray Muzyka cofounded BioWare, a video game development studio focusing on story and character, in the early 1990s. He practiced emergency/family medicine for two years full time, with medicine transitioning to part-time over the following decade as he focused on his role as BioWare’s CEO. BioWare wasacquired by Electronic Arts in 2007, and Dr. Muzyka took on the roles of Senior Vice President at Electronic Arts and General Manager of EA’s BioWare division, which grew over the next five years to span eight development locations worldwide with about 2000 staff (1400 full time). He retired from video games in October 2012, with his third “career chapter” at ThresholdImpact, where he focused on sustainable, profitable impact investing: mentoring and angel investing in information technology, new media, and medical innovations with social entrepreneurs. An active angel investor and entrepreneurial mentor, Dr. Muzyka is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization, the A100, the Ashoka Support Network, and the Board of Governors of the University of Alberta (serving as Chair of the Human Resources Committee and on the Learning and Discovery Committee and as a member of the University of Alberta Advancement Council). He is Chair of the University of Alberta’s entrepreneur Venture Mentoring Service, a venture advisor at iNovia Venture Capital, and a member of the Alberta Research and Innovation Advisory Committee and the Alberta Premier’s Advisory Committee on the Economy. He also serves on a number of private company boards. He previously served on the board of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences from 2001-2008 and was on the Board of Trustees of the Stollery Children’s Health Foundation from 2012-2015. He was inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences’ Hall of Fame in 2011 and received the International Game Developers’ Choice Awards 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Muzyka received the inaugural Alumni Innovation Award in 2015 from the University of Alberta. He additionally was named as the 2017 Allard Chair in Business at the MacEwan University’s School of Business and as an Honorary Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary Club International in 2016, in recognition for his philanthropic efforts. Other awards include entry into Canada’s Top 40 under 40 and Ernst and Young’s 2001 Entrepreneur of the Year (IT, Prairies).He obtained his Bachelor of Medical Science from the University of Alberta in 1990, his Doctorate of Medicine from there in 1992, and his MBA from the University of Western Ontario (Ivey School of Business) in 2001.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Leadoptik — Leadoptik is a California-based company is currently operating in stealth mode.
  • Modality.AI, Inc. — Modality.ai is an AI-powered platform that detects health conditions using conversational AI. Through dialogue and video, Modality.AI interacts conversationally with the patient to provide health assessment anywhere, anytime. Its system analyzes multimodal data which allows continuous screening and assessing of patients’ health.
  • Gray Oncology Solutions — Gray Oncology Solution is a healthcare enterprise software company that commercializes GrayOS, the operating system for oncology.
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
  • Truss — Send and receive business payments online with no limits, no percentage fees and no bullsh*t. Bring your business payments into the 21st century.
  • 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.
Mark Pincus Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Mark Pincus is the founder and Executive Chairman of the Board of Zynga. He has served as our Chairman from April 2007 to March 2016 and the company's Executive Chairman since March 2016. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer from April 2007 to July 2013 and from April 2015 to March 2016, and as Chief Product Officer from April2007 to April 2014. In 2014, he founded superlabs, a San Francisco-based product lab focused on developing products that connect and empower people, which was acquired by Zynga in 2015. Pincus also founded Zynga.org in 2009, a non-profit organization dedicated to using social games for social good.From 2003 to 2007, Pincus served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Tribe.net, a company he launched and one of the first social networks in the industry. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Chairman of Support.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRT), a help desk automation software company he founded, and he served as Chief Executive Officer and President from December 1997 to July 1999. From 1996 to 1997, he served as Chief Executive Officer of FreeLoader, Inc., a web-based news company he founded.Pincus also made founding investments in Napster, Twitter, and Facebook.Pincus graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is an angel investor in multiple Silicon Valley startups and regularly gives lectures to aspiring entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Substack — Substack makes it simple for a writer to start an email newsletter that makes money from subscriptions.
  • Troveo AI — AI companies are scouring the internet for high-quality video. Troveo helps you capture the value and turn your video into revenue.
  • Echo Chunk AI — We build epic strategy games that generate themselves. Starting with Echo Chess: the daily chess puzzler where you are what you eat.
Jennifer Lum Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Jennifer Lum is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Biospring Partners, a growth equity firm that invests in Life Sciences Technology. She is an accomplished entrepreneur and investor. She has cofounded several companies and has worked with many others from formation through to M&A.Jennifer is a Venture Capital Advisor at Harvard BusinessSchool and an Advisor at MIT’s Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship. She is also an Advisory Board member at The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.Jennifer co-founded Forge.AI (acquired by FiscalNote) and Adelphic (acquired by Time). She was an early team member at Quattro Wireless (acquired by Apple), m-Qube (acquired by VeriSign) and WebHosting.com (acquired by AT&T).She has also held various roles as a management consultant with financial services and technology companies.Twitter: @lum
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Invalidate — IPR-tested prior art search. The ultimate patent invalidation tool.
  • Infringements — Monitor your patents and get instant alerts on potential infringements.
  • Patented.ai — The most powerful AI engine for intellectual property.
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, Content, Cloud Computing
  • 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.
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.
Gavin Uhma Angel
Gavin Uhma - Co-Founder / CTO @ Cape Privacy
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Investment focus
  • Software, Social Media Marketing, Predictive Analytics
  • Seed, Series A
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Harbr — Every external contractor brings their own software and process. Let Harbr reconcile your entire portfolio's data in one central place to bring analytics and insights like never before.
  • Dash Social — All-in-one social entertainment marketing software for the world's most important brands. Get the right insights you need to grow your digital presence.
  • Manifold.co — Snyk is the trusted platform for developing fast and securing modern AI-based application development. Book a Demo today to build & run secure code with the power of AI.
Scott Banister Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
  • Validated — Validated tests product ideas against real users before you launch. We measure the feasibility of your product idea rank value propositions and test messaging.
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
  • Aide — Aide is the simple way to use AI in customer support, trusted by online stores and financial services with growing customer service needs.
  • Ten Key Labs — Mantle is a next generation ownership and equity management platform for modern founders, powered by AI.
  • 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.
Neal Dempsey Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Neal Dempsey is the Managing Partner of Bay Partners.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
  • 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
Jordan Banks Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jordan Banks is the Co-Founder at Thunder Road Capital. Jordan Banks attended York University - Osgoode Hall Law School.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • More Labs — smart supplements for people who want more out of life
  • Integrate.ai — Integrate.ai enables your federated machine learning and analytics roadmap. Valuable data is becoming harder to access. Grow your business by building new product features that harness the collective intelligence of your customers' data.
  • Peloton Innovations — Peloton Innovations is the world’s first startup studio aimed at disrupting the $50 billion security industry. Based in Toronto, Peloton creates impactful B2B and B2C products and services for use in the rapidly evolving protection sector.
Boris Wertz Angel · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Boris Wertz is the Founder & General Partner of Version One Ventures. He previously worked at Ether Capital as a Lead Independent director. Boris Wertz attended the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Helcim Inc. — 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.
  • Agora — Make great governance your competitive advantage. Trusted by Optimism, ENS, Uniswap and more.
  • Syndicate — Syndicate enables developers to create scalable, atomically composable appchains with complete control over the network, sequencer, and economy.
Patrick Lor Angel · Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Patrick Lor is Managing Partner at Panache Ventures. He attended the University of Calgary.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Leankor — Highly-visual, customer-centric, work and project management solution that provides a comprehensive 360-project view, real-time data and collaboration for accelerated delivery.
  • Creative Market — Creative Market is a marketplace for ready-to-use design assets, including fonts, graphics, templates, add-ons, photos, and themes, from independent creators around the world.
  • Hack Capital Ventures — Hack Capital is a software company that helps digital companies hire, train, retain, and motivate employees to do the best work of their lives. The company is building vertically integrated systems of intelligence that will help startup companies, as they grow, to manage their scale intelligently.
Robert Justason Angel · Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Bob is chief operating officer and co-founder of Mariner. Prior to joining the Mariner team, Bob held a variety of senior positions with NBTel and Aliant Telecom, including VP, Broadband Engineering, VP, Engineering and VP, Technical Solutions and Support.Bob’s expertise spans the full range of IP and broadband networking applications andtechnologies. In addition to leading Aliant Telecom’s Broadband infrastructure deployment, Bob directed the development of industry-first IP applications, including IP Centrex, TV on the PC and the world’s first IP TV service to deliver multiple MPEG TV streams on DSL technology. Bob has also led the technology development and implementation of self service and service improvement software and tools for both HSI and IP TV. Bob was instrumental in establishing NBTel as the first Canadian telephone company to provide internet service, and he led the technology strategy to deliver a widely respected contact center program which delivered over 10,000 seats of agent technology to world-leading contact center operators, including Fortune 500 clients.
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Investment focus
  • Enterprise Software, Software, SaaS
  • Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • R17 — R17 (was RUMAnalytics) measures, monitors, diagnosis and optimizes websites for speed. Faster websites have higher conversion rates, lower bounce rates, higher search engine rankings, lower bandwidth costs and a better user experience on personal computers and mobile devices.They created R17 to make the internet faster. R17 combines theworld's foremost experts on performance optimization with easy-to-understand analytics, actionable recommendations and mind-blowing CDN technology.
  • Alongside — The perfect hire is closer than you think. Source better candidates, provide great candidate experiences & give yourself the freedom to find the perfect fit.
  • LeadSift — We comb through the public web to deliver only qualified leads interacting with your competitors and with demonstrated buying intent.
Lance Tracey Angel · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Lance Tracey - Founding Partner @ Full Stack
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Software, Communities
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Taloflow — Taloflow analyzes 4,000+ vendor data points to provide you with the best possible recommendation for cloud object storage. Complete a 5-minute use case questionnaire to get started.
  • SceneBox — SceneBox helps computer vision engineers sift through their large datasets to uncover the failure states and interesting data they need to train machine learning models faster.
  • Quantified Citizen — Join groundbreaking studies, receive rich health insights and make an impact on global health and science. Download Quantified Citizen today!
Bryan W. Kerdman Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Mr. Bryan W. Kerdman is Partner of Venture Fund at EdgeStone Capital Partners Inc., EdgeStone Capital Venture Fund I, L.P. and Bryker Fund I, L.P. Mr. Kerdman has served as Partner of Venture Fund at EdgeStone Capital Venture Fund II, L.P. He was a Partner of Bryker Technology Partners. He has twenty-five years experience creating, building andrunning high technology companies that specialize in mission-critical, high-volume transaction applications as well as enterprise software solutions. Mr. Kerdman is the founder of Bryker Data Systems Ltd and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer. He served as Chief Executive Officer of a number of other technology companies including Technolabs Canada and E-route. He served as Chairman of Datawire Communication Networks Inc. He serves as a Director of Datawire Communication Networks Inc., and SC Txlink LLC. He served as a Director of Varicent Software Inc. He served as a Director of Workbrain Corporation since December 2000, Solace Systems, Inc., and CiRBA Inc. since February 1, 2006. He served as a Director of Protus IP Solutions, Inc., INEA, Workbrain, Shoplogix, Inc., RSS Solutions, SlipStream Data, Pvelocity Inc. and Time Industrial.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Debt Financing
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Guardly — We are always on the lookout for new home security content and products that can help us provide you with the best possible service.
  • Lawbrokr — Lawbrokr™ is the on-demand legal marketplace for your transactional legal needs. Lawbrokr allows you to search, connect, and communicate with verified lawyers throughout North America, removing the friction of finding a lawyer that is right for you!At lawbrokr, we believe that the consumer experience of getting access to verified lawyers shouldbe simple, fast, and effortless. For Solo Practitioners, lawbrokr’s end-to-end platform puts each lawyer in control of their own demand by driving practitioners to be quick, and responsive to support the growth of their practice.Our goal is to help Solo Practitioners reduce monthly ad spend through traditional channels, and leverage lawbrokr’s technology to drive new business opportunities that are right for them. No lawyer should be sitting on page 25 of a directory waiting to be found. Through lawbrokr, lawyers can review, and accept prospective engagements when they want, reducing cost per acquisition, overhead, and billable hours.
  • ManagingLife — Lowering the human and financial cost of chronic pain with its digital solution, Manage My Pain.
Tobias Lütke Angel · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Tobi Lütke founded Shopify in 2004. He has served as the Chief Executive Officer since 2008. Tobi worked on the core team of the Ruby on Rails framework and has created many popular open source libraries such as Active Merchant.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Butler — Streamline your workflow with AI-powered summaries, contextual chat, a native meeting bot and more, all in one place.
  • Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
  • Neo Financial — At Neo, we're innovating to make saving, spending and getting rewarded even more rewarding.
Markus Frind Angel · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Markus Frind
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Investment focus
  • Retail, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Cymax Group Technologies Ltd. — Cymax Group simplifies the complexities of eCommerce by combining nearly two decades of technology expertise with award winning products and dedicated account management. Maximize the best of technology, automation, and AI to simplify the complexities of eCommerce through our two products - Channel
  • Symend — Symend’s digital engagement platform uses behavioral science and data-driven insights to empower customers to resolve past due bills. Leveraging advanced analytics, Symend helps enterprises better engage millions of customers by providing deep insight into consumer behavior. Symend continuously optimizes these insights and empathetically nudgescustomers towards a desired action with personalized communications, self-serve tools and flexible repayment options. Symend’s relationship-based approach keeps enterprises attuned to the changing needs of their customers and empowers them to take action. This increases customer satisfaction, lowers operating costs, and helps resolve past due bills before reaching collections. Founded in 2016, Symend’s platform is purpose built to serve complex global enterprises in telecommunications, financial services, utilities and media. Symend is headquartered in Calgary and privately held, with global operations across Canada, the United States and Latin America. For more information, please visit https://symend.com/ and follow the company on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
  • Tastry, Inc. — Tastry wine AI provides unparalleled visibility for winemakers and retailers into your wine's chemistry and how consumers will perceive it. Learn more here.
Auren Hoffman Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Auren Hoffman is the CEO and Chief Historian of SafeGraph and he was the CEO of Rapleaf. Auren holds a B.S.E. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the UC Berkeley. He writes a blog called Summation.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Analytics, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Ex Parte — Ex Parte uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing to give customers the information they need to make better decisions and achieve a competitive advantage. Consider it Moneyball for a market that is >20 times the size of Major League Baseball.
  • CalypsoAI — CalypsoAI combines industry-leading AI testing and human-in-the-loop decision making to give you the confidence you need to push AI projects into production.
  • Sincera — Sincera provides novel signal data to the most innovative companies in advertising technology.
Tim Draper Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 15 investments in the past 12 months
Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • GALY — Saving Our Planet by Transitioning the World to Cellular Agriculture
  • Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
  • Zest Protocol — Zest Protocol enables users to put their Bitcoin to work. Earn more BTC, or borrow against your BTC.
Paul Buchheit Angel · Mountain View, California, United States
Paul Buchheit co-founded social network aggregator FriendFeed, along with three other former Google employees. He is also an investor in FriendFeed and participated in a $5 million Series A round in February 2008.He was the 23rd employee at Google, where he created Gmail and implemented many of its innovative features. He developed the originalprototype of Google AdSense, and was responsible for Google's famous "Don't be evil" motto in a meeting.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
  • SiPhox Health — SiPhox Health brings comprehensive, at-home blood testing to your door! Take control of your disease risk and increase your healthspan today with affordable, convenient at-home blood testing. No lab visits, no appointments, no waiting in line.
  • Character.ai — Chat with millions of AI Characters anytime, anywhere. Super-intelligent chat bots that hear you, understand you, and remember you.
  • Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
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, Legal Tech, Internet
  • 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!
Manny Padda Angel · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Manny is an entrepreneur, educator, angel investor and philanthropist based in Vancouver, B.C.A self-made entrepreneur who built his first multi-million-dollar company at age 26, Manny is dedicated to providing education and mentorship to today’s youth. He is the founder of New Avenue Capital, a global firm focusing on four fundamental pillars:investment, lending, recruitment and philanthropy.Manny sits on a number of advisory boards in the education and not-for-profit sectors, and is an active advisor and angel investor in Vancouver’s tech community and around the globe. He has invested in local start-ups including Picatic, MyBestHelper, G-Kup, ShareShed and NovaBind.Manny is also the co-founder of GradusOne, an organization that connects students and new graduates with mentors and provides them with the resources they need to achieve future success. It is Manny’s personal mission to educate 1 million people worldwide.He is a graduate of Harvard Business School’s Private Equity & Venture Capital program. Manny also completed his MBA from Queen’s University and his BBA (Honours) from Simon Fraser University.
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Investment focus
  • Marketing, Communities, Local
  • Seed, Angel
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • CareCru — Donna puts growth on autopilot by syncing with your Practice Management Software in real-time, in order to find opportunities in your schedule, and fill them on your behalf.
  • Guiides — Guiides provide a frictionless online experience of discovering adventures and booking a local guide to take you there.
  • Surf — Surf for Brands allows you to generate the highest quality first party data, with consumer opt-in options. Generate ethical, high quality data now - Learn more
Sergio A. Escobar Angel · Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Sergio has a diversified investment portfolio of companies across the United States and Canada ranging from B2B Cloud & SaaS startups (leveraging Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Analytics and Security) to B2C Consumer startups (leveraging Mobile Apps, IoT/Wearables and eCommerce). Sergio has +15 years of experience as a multiple timestech entrepreneur with startups in Aerospace, eCommerce, Manufacturing, AgTech and Financial Technologies. Over the last 8 years, he has been deeply involved in the international entrepreneurial scene (incubators and accelerators) through his involvement in Founder Institute, Techstars Startup Programs, McGill X-1, Startup Chile, Startup Peru, Startup Bootcamp FinTech London, MsB Tunisia, Flat6Labs Tunisia, Kuwait National Fund, World Bank 'Tech Entrepreneurship Program for Innovation in the Caribbean', Krypto Labs in the Middle East and Creative Destruction Lab in Artificial Intelligence. He has been pioneering the Canadian investment scene by launching one of Canada's very first super angel funds: BCFventures.vc
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Real Estate
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • FightCamp — FightCamp delivers the most exhilarating and effective form of home fitness through interactive boxing workouts, streamed to your device on demand.
  • JITbase — JITbase helps to improve workforce efficiency and increase production capacity by collecting data from machines that no one else can access.
  • Athennian — Athennian's cloud-based legal entity management software is trusted by law firms, legal departments, and corporate secretaries for entity governance and compliance. Learn more.
Mike Edwards Angel
Mike has a wealth of experience in building and scaling consumer technology companies in private and public markets
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Art, Apps
  • Seed, Angel
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Wantering — Wantering is a fashion discovery tool that allows you to discover and buy clothing from across a curated list of boutiques, flash sales sites, and major retailers all in one place.
  • Skyscraper — Skyscraper is an all-in-one ad management platform for bloggers. A magical way of running ads on your site that both simple and effective.
  • Hack Capital Ventures — Hack Capital is a software company that helps digital companies hire, train, retain, and motivate employees to do the best work of their lives. The company is building vertically integrated systems of intelligence that will help startup companies, as they grow, to manage their scale intelligently.
Mike Cegelski Angel · Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Mike Cegelski is the Founder, Chairman, and Managing Partner at Panache Ventures and an Investing Partner at Kanata Ventures, Limited Partner at Brightspark Ventures, Akkadian Ventures, iNovia Capital, Real Ventures, and Plaza Ventures. Prior to that, Mike was a Fellow at Creative Destruction Lab. He attended the Université de Sherbrooke.
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Investment focus
  • Analytics, Apps, SaaS
  • Seed, Angel
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • AmpMe — Sync your phone with friends. Create a portable sound system.
  • Retinad — Analytics platform made for 360VR media. Drag & drop plugin integration across all major VR headsets.
  • Smart Reno — Choose from trusted renovation contractors in Canada for your home. Get free quotes from certified contractors for renovation services today!
Joseph Fung Angel · Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Joseph Fung is the CEO and Co-founder of Uvaro.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, B2B
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • FindBoB — Using behavioral analytics, the only machine learning platform focused on succession planning and talent management within the financial services industry.
  • Roadmunk — Create and present boardroom-ready product roadmaps. Collaborate, prioritize, share plans and solicit feedback using one roadmap tool.
  • Skritswap — skritswap software reduces the reading level of information.
Lance Priebe Angel
Lance Priebe
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Investment focus
  • eSports, SaaS, Content Delivery Network
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • WTFast — WTFast is here to help you get rid of pesky online gaming problems and bid farewell to Fortnite lag, PUBG lag, Dota 2 lag, CSGO lag, LOL lag and hundred of other games.
  • PLAYR.gg — Surf Giveaways is the #1 platform to run giveaways, sweepstakes, and contests for gamers. Grow your audience and build your community with giveaways now!
  • Nurture — Learn Foundational Life Skills Through Immersive Play
Nitesh Banta Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Nitesh Banta is the Co-Founder & CEO at B12.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Vybe — Virtual Try-On & AI Styling for Fashion Stores
  • Protege — Protege is the platform for AI Training Data. Protege works with data holders and model builders to empower them to share training data for AI model development.
  • Chai Discovery — Building frontier artificial intelligence to predict and reprogram the interactions between biochemical molecules.
Charlie Songhurst Angel · Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States · 13 investments in the past 12 months
Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Octomind — Octomind is an AI-powered end-to-end web app testing tool that detects bugs before they are discovered by users. It develops automated software that runs UI tests to discover bugs.
  • StackOne — Accelerate your SaaS growth with our unified API solution for HRIS, ATS, and CRM. Say "yes" to customers, build advanced integrations quickly, and experienced the best data privacy controls in the market.
  • Utila — Utila is an enterprise-scale self-custody platform that manages your organization's crypto strategy with safe, chain-agnostic wallet infrastructure.
Lee Lau Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lee Lau is a Partner and Co-Founder of Alignvest Management Corporation. Mr. Lau co-founded ATI Technologies in 1985 and built the company into one of the world’s largest supplier of graphic chips and add-in boards to the personal computer industry. In addition to managing the company, Mr. Lau was ATI’s largest shareholder, first employee andresponsible for innovation and development of all products. Mr. Lau helped build ATI into a TSX and NASDAQ listed global market leader, with annual sales in excess of $2.2 billion and over 3,000 employees. ATI was sold in 2006 to Advanced Micro Devices for cash and stock consideration of $5.3 billion. Since then, Mr. Lau has managed his family office investing in a variety of alternative asset products. Prior to founding ATI, Mr. Lau held various design engineering positions with Mitel, Motorola and Plessey.Mr. Lau holds a Masters in Engineering and a BASc from the University of Toronto.
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Investment focus
  • Wearables, Software, Internet of Things
  • Seed, Convertible Note
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Nymi — Nymi provides a new paradigm for connecting people to their workplace on a platform, which streamlines work securely across different networks and environments. Passwordless, contactless, handsfree.
  • Lumotune — We are creating a platform to transform the world’s glass into digital displays.
  • Springdel — Move beyond cloud and legacy MDM with an enterprise-grade EdgeOps platform purpose-built for the interactive Edge of Things.
Alex Norman Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Alex is a tech entrepreneur, an active angel investor and community builder who is currently the General Partner at N49P, the Canadian Partner of AngelList and the Managing Director of TechToronto. Previously Alex, co-founded, grew, and sold HomeSav. Before HomeSav, Alex worked at Lehman Brothers, McKinsey and several venture-backed start-ups inNYC, the Valley, and London, including Simply Business which recently sold for $400m+ USD.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Canada, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Draft — Get blog posts, social posts, email copy and more from world class writers. Request quality content for your business in a few clicks.
  • Finaeo — Finaeo is powering the future of life and health insurance with our all-in-one platform. Our digital marketplace connects carriers, brokers and clients through a fully-integrated experience.
  • Draft — Find & work with content creation freelancers in a trustless way, running on Internet Computer
John Risley Angel · Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada
John Risley is Chairman and CEO of CFFI Ventures Inc., a diversified holding company operating internationally. The company has majority or significant stakes in a portfolio of young companies ranging from financial services, renewable energy and the tech sector. He is also the Chair of Northern Private Capital, a Toronto based fund which investsin high growth opportunities, and Chair of MDA Corporation, Canada’s iconic space company.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Sharing Economy
  • Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Seed
  • Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • ClearBank — ClearBank is a clearing and agency banking platform allowing banks and other customers real-time clearance on payment transactions and other financial services. Its services include account management, liquidity management, transaction analysis, and real-time access to payment schemes. These services help clients to make transactions fast andcost-effective for their customers.The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Bristol City, United Kingdom.
  • Harbr — Harbr analyzes submissions and automatically retrieves missing information so teams can stop wasting time chasing documents.
  • ZeroIN — For ingredient manufacturers seeking to enhance the taste profile of their sweeteners, ZeroIN develops technology to produce next-gen sweeteners with the same bulk, sweetness, and taste as sugar but no aftertaste.
Frederic Boulanger Angel · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Fred is an out-of-the closet design and technology geek who envisions a world where software enables the full potential of ideas, enriches lives, and is a joy to use. He has led Macadamian in its tremendous growth to become a multi-million dollar consultancy with an award-winning work culture. Frédéric started his career at Corel Corporation in thesoftware engineering department, becoming the Senior Development Manager of Paradox, the company’s flagship database product. Having learned the ins and outs of creating successful software he began his entrepreneurial journey by starting Macadamian in 1997 with 3 other founders.As Chair of the Information Technology Association of Canada, Fred is an ardent advocate for technology-based innovation in Canada. He is also a community leader and mentor, who encourages a passion for healthcare, science, and technology in high school and university students. Frédéric graduated from the Université de Sherbrooke with a B.S. in Computer Science. He resides with his wife and children in Gatineau, Quebec, where he enjoys mountain biking, skiing, and cooking for family and friends.
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Investment focus
  • Software, B2B, Internet
  • Seed, Angel
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Foko Retail — A cloud-based workforce management software with capabilities to manage time, attendance, scheduling, absence and employee communications globally.
  • Pagecloud — PageCloud is a browser-based website creation platform with a simple goal: to democratize the web, giving the whole world the ability to create and share online. This innovative, professional-grade website creator lets users build and edit websites with a powerful editing experience not seen on the web before.Many world-firsts, like the abilityto import layers directly from Photoshop, make PageCloud the world’s most innovative website creator. No need to code or learn complicated back-end user interfaces, and no rigid templates. Thanks to PageCloud, anyone with a browser and an Internet connection now has the ability to create websites that are truly their own.
  • Provender — Provender is an online platform that enables farmers to create direct-trade associations with buyers. The platform allows farmers to quantify and organize their yields, and make that data accessible to buyers everywhere. Provender was founded in April 2013 and is based in Montréal, Quebec.
Lisa Shields Angel · Vancouver, Alberta, Canada
Lisa Shields is FI.SPAN’s founder and CEO. FI.SPAN is Lisa’s second financial technology startup - she also founded and led Hyperwallet Systems Inc for 15 years; today it is recognized as a leading global payments processor for business to consumer mass payouts. She is a member of the Canadian FinPay Committee, was named the EY RegionalEntrepreneur Of The Year in 2015 and received a Women in Payments Innovation Award in 2016.A firm believer in inclusive commerce, Lisa is always looking for new ways to unite ecosystem participants for the benefit of end users. She also has a personal interest in the underbanked and speaks frequently and passionately on the importance of low-cost, compliant payments.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Energy
  • Seed, Series A
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • MergeBase — MergeBase develops cyber defenses for vulnerable 3rd-party and open source components and libraries. MergeBase focuses on providing clients with robust security against the number one source of data breaches today: vulnerabilities in software components. Feel free to compete digitally by utilizing open source and commercial libraries. MergeBaseallows you to build securely on external software components.
  • Neutronpay — Lightning Network Infrastructure API for Global Remittances, Payments, Spending, Payouts and Banking.
  • Validere — Measure and capitalize on emission reductions while improving operations with all-in-one commodity & carbon management platform for oil and gas.
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, Credit Cards
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Float Financial — All-in-one corporate cards, fast bill payments, reimbursements, and expense management software. Get started today for free.
Brice Scheschuk Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Brice Scheschuk is a Co-founder, Director and the Chief Financial Officer of Globalive Communications / Wind Mobile. He has been with Globalive / Wind for eight years in a senior finance capacity and is responsible for all aspects of finance, facilities and business planning including direct responsibility for raising in excess of $1.2billion in capital. Brice is the Co-President of Brave Investment, an investment holding company focused on private and public company and fund investing and manages over $10 million in assets across a number of investment classes including alternative funds, private and public equity, venture capital, angel, real estate, CPC’s, SPAC’s and RTO’s. He is the Chairman and Director of Samba Days, a gift experiences company, and a past director of a number of public and private companies including Web Host Industry Review, iLookabout, Hy-Drive Technologies and Varicent Software. Brice is a Canadian Chartered Accountant and earned his designation at Coopers & Lybrand in 1997. A passionate entrepreneur and investor, Brice has been involved in some of the most exciting start-ups in Canada over the past 15 years.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Dynami Battery Corp — Dynami supercharges current and future lithium battery chemistries through electrode micro-engineering.
  • SceneDoc — SceneDoc is public safety’s first all-in-one mobile software for data collection and retrieval. By modernizing with SceneDoc, agencies operate with higher levels of clarity and control, with fewer moving parts, capturing data and reporting at the point of need. SceneDoc is saving agencies an hour of paperwork per shift on average, resulting in lesstime reporting and more time in the community so officers can do what they do best.
  • Mayday — Time is your most valuable asset. Make sure you're spending it wisely.
Dean Bakes Angel · New York, New York, United States
Dean Bakes is the Principal at M3 Ventures and Investor at Foxtrot, Jaanuu, and Rhone. He is also an Advisory Committee of The Vinetta Project. He was the Creative Director at Michael Andrews Bespoke and the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Charles Dean before that.He brings to M3 Ventures a unique combination of investment acumen,relationship building, and unbridled ambition. Dean has developed a firm knowledge and understanding of branded consumer companies as well as a unique perspective as the founder of his own apparel startup
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Apps, Delivery
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Foxtrot — Foxtrot is a mobile app that lets customers shop their curated collections of drinks, food, and everyday essentials. The customer's order will be delivered straight to them in under an hour. The company was co-founded by Mike LaVitola with Brian Jaffee and Taylor Bloom in 2013 in Chicago, Illinois.
  • Blackcart — BlackCart removes friction during checkout, boosts conversions, AOV, and gives customers the best shopping experience. BlackCart allows the customer to pick out items from their favorite stores, get it shipped to try at home for free, and only pay for what they keep.
Michael Litt Angel · Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Michael is the co-founder and CEO of the leading Video Marketing platform.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Software, Computer
  • Seed
  • Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Revlo — Revlo is the fan engagement platform for broadcasters on Twitch. We offer a suite of tools that help Twitch broadcasters better engage and monetize their fans.Broadcasters use Revlo to integrate a custom currency into their Twitch channel that viewers earn for watching their stream. The currency allows them to reward loyal fans and gamify theviewing experience.For example, viewers can spend their currency on getting a discount on merchandise or joining the next viewer game. Viewers can also use Revlo to compete on a leaderboard, bet on matches, and enter into giveaways. Fans can interact with the broadcaster on Revlo or using chat commands on Twitch.
  • Wrk — Optimize your operations with Wrk's business process automation platform. Offering automation software solutions for seamless digital workflows.
  • CareGuide — We believe good people deserve the best care. Connect with housekeepers, nannies, pet sitters, and elder \ care providers with ease. Trusted and secure.
Jon Oringer Angel · Miami, Florida, United States
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • SLUSHY — Slushy is the ultimate adult social platform for new creators. Post content, grow your following, and monetize your profile all in one place. Reach new fans on day one with instant approvals and payouts on demand. Sign up and start earning today!
  • Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
  • Unsloth AI — Open-source LLM fine-tuning for Llama 4, Phi 4, Gemma 3, Mistral and more! Beginner friendly. Get faster with Unsloth.
Marc Altshuller Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Marc Altshuller is the President and CEO at Varicent. He attended Schulich School of Business - York University.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Apps, Health Care
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Ritual — Delivery & takeout from the best local restaurants. Providing over 15,000 restaurants globally with digital solutions to help them serve up their best.
  • Plasticity Labs — Tempat Mencari Referensi Gaya Hidup Anak Muda Terkini
  • Tacit Innovations — Digital ordering done right. With Tacit Corporation, you can get more orders by offering a seamless digital ordering experience.
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, Information Technology, 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.
Max Mullen Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Max is the Co-Founder of Instacart. He started the company with two co-founders in 2012. Previously, he's worked for several startups including Schematic, an award-winning interactive agency which was acquired by WPP. Max is originally from Los Angeles where he graduated from the University of Southern California, studying entrepreneurship andcinematic arts.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Series A, Series D
  • United States, Canada, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
  • Gumloop — The no-code platform to build and host AI-powered business automations.
  • Highstock — The private marketplace for vetted global buyers and coveted brands.
  • Nuvo — Onboard customers through configurable, high-converting branded experiences that accelerate credit approvals, unlock revenue, and reduce fraud.Nuvo replaces manual credit forms with AI-powered application flows, real-time business and principal identity verification, and embedded credit insights—enabling confident decisions that protect and growyour business. Designed for complex trade partnerships, Nuvo is the B2B commerce platform trusted and preferred by 40,000 businesses.
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