Top 10 ESports Angel Investors in Canada in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Esports startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Esports companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 ESports Angel Investors in Canada in January 2026

Investor	eSports Canada investments
Lance Priebe	3
Omi Velasco	1
Deepak Jain	1
Antoine Martin	1
Jarl Mohn	1
Jeff Chang	1
Nolan Bushnell	1
Jez San	1
Roham Gharegozlou	1
R Stewart Thompson	1

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Lance Priebe

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 — Fun, science-backed learning games that build future-proof life skills like critical thinking, money smarts, healthy habits, and more. Free for now!

Omi Velasco is the Co-founder & Partner at Aventrock Ventures. Omi Velasco attended University of Calgary.

Investment focus

Software, Grocery, eSports
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Canada

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.

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

Investment focus

Art, Gaming, eSports
Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Anime Universe — 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.

Antoine Martin - Co-founder & CEO @ Zenly

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bleen — Building a new outdoor home brand, starting with lawn care. It’s simple, easy to use, and personalized to your home.
Cycle App — Cycle is a horizontal platform made of flexible building blocks that you can use in customizable workflows. Your way of working shouldn't depend on your tools, they built Cycle so that product teams could ship the way that works for them.
Daze — Daze is a software development company that reinvents the calendar to be more fun, expressive, and social.Daze is the social calendar for friends to plan events and use creative tools to more vividly capture their time spent together. It’s a social calendar with powerful creative tools for scheduling your future and documenting your past withfriends. They hope to unlock creativity, foster intimacy, and inspire self-reflection by reimagining the format of time. Founded by Willem Simons in 2021 and is located in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

Jarl Mohn is the President and Chief Executive Officer at NPR, one of the country's most iconic news and cultural content organizations. In this capacity, Jarl oversees NPR's strategy to continue NPR's mission to create a more informed public by working in partnership with Member stations across the country. Today NPR contentreaches: 32 million people who visit npr.org every month, 26 million people who listen to NPR programming every week, and listeners who download NPR podcasts 72 million times each month. Jarl's deep media experience has spanned all media platforms as well as rapid changes in audience trends. Jarl spent almost 20 years in radio, many as a disc jockey at stations including WNBC in New York. In addition to his on-air work in radio, Jarl served as a programmer, general manager, and owner of a group of radio stations. Jarl created E! Entertainment Television and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer for almost a decade. Jarl is the former Executive Vice President and General Manager of MTV and VH1 where he architected the strategy of long-form programming at the heart of the network today and diversified the networks' audiences by developing innovative programming around alternative music formats. Jarl was also founding President and Chief Executive Officer at Liberty Digital, a public company that invested in cable networks, the Internet and online businesses. Prior to joining NPR in July of 2014, Jarl served the as a Member of the Board of Trustees at Southern California Public Radio (SCPR) for more than a decade, including two years as Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Jarl also spent over 12 years on the board of The Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, including six years as its Chairman of the Board of Directors. Jarl has also been a Corporate Director and Advisor to a number of media companies, making direct early stage angel and seed investments in digital media/technology ventures. Since 2008 he has served as a Member of the Board of Directors at Scripps Networks Interactive. Jarl and his wife Pamela created The Mohn Family Foundation in 2000. Jarl attended Temple University, where he studied Mathematics and Philosophy.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Series B, Series A
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Dack — DACK is the smartest and most complete software solution for optimizing guest experience.
Lantern — Lantern is a public benefit corporation that provides a single source of guidance for navigating life before and after a death. It offers free, custom roadmaps to make sure you or a loved one have everything in order. Whether you're pre-planning or have recently lost someone, Lantern has all of the tools, resources, and services you need toconfidently manage the process while coping with the loss of a loved one.
Abstract — Abstract is a software-as-a-service company that is developing a next-generation tool for experts to influence politics and policy.

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

Investment focus

Software, Developer Tools, Sports
Seed
United States, Canada

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.

Nolan Bushnell is the Founder and CEO of X2 Games. He previously worked at modalVR as a CoFounder and Chairman. Nolan attended the University of Utah.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, eSports
Seed, Angel, Debt Financing
United States, 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.
Wonder — Introducing a new kind of home dining experience. Currently available in areas of New Jersey.
Wonder — Introducing a new kind of home dining experience. Currently available in areas of New Jersey.

Jez San - CEO & founder @ FunFair Technologies

Investment focus

eSports, Ethereum, Blockchain
Seed
Malta, Canada

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.

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Code — This is Digital Cash
Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
Edgen — A multi-chain, modular and open-source protocol providing the tools for developers to create the next generation of social apps.

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.