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Top 15 eSports Angel Investors in Canada (October 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Canada eSports startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Canada eSports startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Lance Priebe
Angel
4 Canada, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed eSports, SaaS, Gaming $75k–$579k
Deepak Jain
Angel
2 Canada Angel, Pre-Seed Art, Gaming, eSports
Omi Velasco
Angel
1 Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Grocery, eSports
Dennis Phelps
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Germany Seed, Series D, Series B Software, Internet, Mobile $500k–$100M
Nolan Bushnell
Angel
1 United States, Canada Seed, Angel, Debt Financing Mobile, eSports, Video Games
Randolph Retterath
Angel
1 Canada Angel Art, Gaming, eSports
Jason Kryski
Angel
1 Canada Angel Software, Information Technology, SaaS $120k–$1M
R Stewart Thompson
Angel
1 Canada Seed eSports, Software, Marketing
Andrew Mastracci
Angel
1 Canada Angel eSports, Software, Marketing
Clifford Morgan
Angel
1 Canada Angel eSports, Software, Marketing
Salmaan Ahmed
Angel
1 Canada Angel eSports, Software, Marketing
Warren Houston
Angel
1 Canada Angel eSports, Software, Marketing
Jez San
Angel
1 Malta, Canada Seed eSports, Ethereum, Software $2.3M–$5M
Roham Gharegozlou
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Italy Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency $470k–$27M
Jeff Chang
Angel
1 United States, Canada Seed Software, Developer Tools, Sports $3M–$8.2M
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Lance Priebe
Angel · 4 investments in Canada eSports startups

Lance Priebe is the Founder of Hyper Hippo Entertainment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, SaaS, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $183k–$579k; Angel $75k–$423k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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 — Nurture transforms screen time into interactive stories that build curiosity, resilience, creativity, and empathy.
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Deepak Jain
Angel · 2 investments in Canada eSports startups

Value Creator - People Oriented - Turnaround Champion - Cultural Integration Expert

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, Gaming, eSports
  • Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Anime Universe Global — The AU platform will be a fully immersive, safe and trusted environment where we will find a space for ourselves and our communities to create new memories and share our activities.
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Omi Velasco
Angel · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 1 investments in Canada eSports startups

Omi Velasco

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Grocery, eSports
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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!
  • WaitWell — Improve operational efficiency and reputation at busy service locations with queue management, appointment booking, workflow automation, and much 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.
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Dennis Phelps
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Canada eSports startups

Dennis Phelps is based out of San Francisco, California and currently works as an Advisory Partner for IVP. Dennis Phelps attended the Dartmouth College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series D, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$5M; Series B $8M–$80M; Series D $10M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PlayVS — PlayVS is an operator of an eSports platform used to organize competitions in eSports on behalf of high school. Its platform offers to organize online tournaments and wagers for cash and prizes and helps to play and stay up-to-date on high school e-sports programs that enable teen gamers to form teams at their high schools to compete with playersfrom other schools and the battle for titles at state championships.
  • Leo — LEO is the AI-powered augmented reality camera and creative platform. Capture, transform, and share stunning AR photos and videos.
  • Cambrian Asset Management — A Quantitative Investment Firm for Digital Assets
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Nolan Bushnell
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Canada eSports startups

Nolan Bushnell is the Board Member of Gravity Jack. He previously worked at BrainRush Inc. as a Founder. Nolan attended the University of Utah.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, eSports, Video Games
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Oomba — Oomba serves the rapidly expanding eSports market by providing large-scale venues and a complete set of cloud-based tournament management and live-streaming solutions for the millions of players, tournament organizers, and gaming leagues worldwide. With its acquisition of GameWorks Oomba is building out eSports stadiums across the US.Oomba ispositioned to revolutionize the eSports and gaming industry by “eloquently organizing how people play” in leagues and tournaments while recording their results, stats, and rankings in the Cloud. Their multi-sided platform incorporates teams, leagues, live tournaments, governing bodies, game publishers, sponsorships, as well as, driving value for B2B solutions and consumers alike. Based in Irvine, CA, the Company was founded by Michael Williams, CEO, founder of Planetwide Games, and Tremor Entertainment. Aiding Williams in the creative development of Oomba is co-founder and visionary, Nolan Bushnell, famed video game developer and founder of both Atari and Chuck E. Cheese restaurants.Oomba officially launched its mobile app and website at Gen Con 2014, showcasing the innovative tournament organization, webcasting, and social networking functions by breaking the Guinness World Record for largest Rock, Paper, Scissors tournament of all time.
  • 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.
  • Wonder — Introducing a new kind of home dining experience. Currently available in areas of New Jersey.
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Randolph Retterath
Angel · 1 investments in Canada eSports startups

Member of Senior Executive Leadership Team with high visibility in strategically developing and implementing scalable solutions to address business opportunities. Supports domestic and global functions, e.g. Actuarial, Agency Distribution, Billing, Corporate Internet/Intranet Communications, Financial, Human Resources, Legal, Reinsurance,Risk, IT applications, US Agencies, and onshore/offshore operations.Leader of large-scale transformations that drive business growth and optimization through consolidation, organization and technological redesign, process improvement, and staff development. Visionary and corporate influencer of new & future technology trends. Actively identifies, analyses, and champions value-based system modernization while positioning enterprise for future growth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, Gaming, eSports
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Anime Universe Global — The AU platform will be a fully immersive, safe and trusted environment where we will find a space for ourselves and our communities to create new memories and share our activities.
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Jason Kryski
Angel · 1 investments in Canada eSports startups

Founder @ Uncoil

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Angel $120k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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!
  • Workwolf — Workwolf is a recruitment services company that combines human recruiters with proprietary AI and psychometric technology to deliver predictive hiring intelligence at disruptive pricing. The company addresses a fundamental inefficiency in the $150B+ recruitment industry: traditional agencies charge 15-25% of candidate salary for subjectiveassessments with no performance accountability. Workwolf’s technology-enabled model delivers measurable quality improvements at significantly lower cost per hire. The proprietary technology platform includes two core components: Smart Resume Screening for contextual qualification matching, and Packfinder™ psychometrics for role-specific performance prediction. Unlike generic assessment tools, Packfinder™ models are calibrated using client performance data, creating organization-specific predictions that improve with scale. The business model starts at fees as low as 4% of annual salary for high-volume roles, rather than percentage-based fees of 15-25%, creating favorable unit economics for high-volume clients while maintaining strong margins through technology leverage. This pricing structure aligns incentives around retention rather than salary inflation. Target customers are mid-market companies with consistent hiring volume (2+ hires/month) across multiple locations—particularly retail, hospitality, healthcare, logistics, and call centers. These segments offer predictable demand and benefit most from Workwolf’s pattern recognition capabilities across distributed operations. The platform generates compounding data advantages: each hire provides performance outcome data that refines predictive models, creating a defensible moat as the system processes more hiring decisions within and across client organizations. Workwolf is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
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R Stewart Thompson
Angel · Calgary, Alberta, Canada · 1 investments in Canada eSports startups

R Stewart (Randy) Thompson is the Founder & Managing Partner of Old Kent Road (OKR) Financial.He attend to the The University of British Columbia in 1986.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Software, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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!
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Andrew Mastracci
Angel · 1 investments in Canada eSports startups

CTO @ Surf

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Software, Marketing
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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!
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Clifford Morgan
Angel · 1 investments in Canada eSports startups

Founder & CEO @ G FUEL

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Software, Marketing
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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!
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Salmaan Ahmed
Angel · 1 investments in Canada eSports startups

VP Software and Founder @ Onc.AI

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Software, Marketing
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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!
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Warren Houston
Angel · Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada · 1 investments in Canada eSports startups

Warren Houston is an Executive in Residence (EiR) with Accelerate Okanagan. Warren received his MBA at the University of Western Ontario’s Richard Ivey School of Business. He also received his Bachelors Degree from the University of Western Ontario in Economics.Warren is currently a Partner with Powered by Search, a Profit Hot 50 & Branham300 Ranked SEO & Inbound Marketing Agency. Warren also co-founded Business.ca in 2001 and raised over $2 million in venture capital funding.Warren specializes in systemizing businesses, minimizing risks, sales growth, digital marketing and growing businesses organically. Warren has a strong passion for baseball and basketball and enjoys spending time with his wife and 3 kids.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Software, Marketing
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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!
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Jez San
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Canada eSports startups

Jez San is based out of London, England, and is the Founder of FunFair Technologies. Jez previously worked at PKR.com as a Founder.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Ethereum, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Malta, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Award Pool — Award Pool is an integrated web3 platform that empowers brands, creators and collectors with amazing engagement tools and features to create, collect, and trade unique experiences, collectibles, and payments securely.
  • Virtue Poker — Virtue Poker is a decentralized poker platform that uses the Ethereum blockchain and peer-to-peer networking to provide an online poker site that's safe, honest, and fun.
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Roham Gharegozlou
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Canada eSports startups

Roham is founder and CEO of Axiom Zen, an award-winning venture studio that specializes in emerging technology. Axiom Zen’s first public blockchain project, CryptoKitties, is the world’s most successful blockchain game and the first decentralized application to effectively engage a consumer audience. CryptoKitties has been covered by Fortune,Bloomberg, and the BBC, accounting for roughly a quarter of the Ethereum network’s traffic within a week of launch and introducing hundreds of thousands of new users to blockchain technology. Axiom Zen was named first among Canada’s Most Innovative Companies by Canadian Business. Their products have touched 200+ million consumers and are used by the world’s leading companies, including Facebook, Microsoft, and NASA, as well as by eminent academic institutions and government organizations. They pride themselves in diversity of talent: a team of ~80+ creatives includes published authors, over a dozen former founders, diversity from 20+ national origins, and decades of collective experience at startups and Fortune 500s alike. Axiom Zen has been working with Bitcoin and various forms of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies since 2014. Axiom Zen is also the team behind ZenHub, the world’s leading collaboration solution for technical teams using GitHub; and the developer of Timeline, named Apple’s Best App of January, Editor’s Choice in 10 countries, and Best New App in 88 countries. Axiom Zen is the creator of Toby, recognized as Top Chrome Extension of the year by both Google and Product Hunt, and the parent company of Hammer & Tusk, a leader in the world of immersive experiences (AR/VR). Axiom Zen's work has been featured in TIME Magazine, The New York Times, Vice, and Fast Company. History Prior to founding Axiom Zen, Roham served with the Rising Tide Fund bas

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Pre-Seed $470k–$19M; Series A $3.2M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a permissionless DeFi lending platform where users can lend and borrow crypto across chains, access loans, and manage digital assets in one unified liquidity protocol.
  • Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
  • Edgen — A multi-chain, modular and open-source protocol providing the tools for developers to create the next generation of social apps.
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Jeff Chang
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Canada eSports startups

Jeff Chang was the Head of Growth Engineering at Whatnot. Jeff previously worked at Pastel Labs as a Founder. Attended University of California, Berkeley.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Developer Tools, Sports
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$8.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PopSQL — PopSQL is a developer of collaborative SQL query editing software designed to share queries and visualize data. The company's software stores SQL queries and runs regularly, grouping them into folders that can be kept private or shared among the team, track changes so it can be reverted if or when something breaks, enabling users to workcollaboratively on queries and then distribute among the team.
  • Skio — We help Shopify merchants sell subscriptions without ripping their hair out.
  • Offsight — Factory ready project management software for the modular and offsite construction industry. We solve the delivery, quality, traceability and communication challenges of modular, offsite and project based manufacturing.
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eSports Angel investor funding in Canada at a glance

Stats across 17 deals from 23 investors.

23
investors
in Canada eSports startups
17
deals
in Canada eSports startups
$825k
median round
in Canada eSports startups
17%
lead investors
lead at least one round
35%
Angel
most common funding stage

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