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Top 50 Fashion Angel Investors in Canada in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Fashion startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Fashion companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Fashion Angel Investors in Canada in May 2025

Investor	Fashion Canada investments
Diplo (Thomas Pentz)	3
Gemini Waghmare	2
Ted Rheingold	2
Jay Deen	2
Jeff B. Smith	2
Harley Finkelstein	2
Roham Gharegozlou	2
Benjamin Moore	1
Allen Shim	1
Jeremy Lai	1
Joseph Roos	1
Deborah Liu	1
Jay Brown	1
Mona Patel	1
Carla Matheson	1
Hilary Duff	1
Anna Sinclair	1
Jonathan Becker	1
Sarah Kunst	1
Rasool Rayani	1
Jason Warner	1
Tobyn Sowden	1
Reetu Gupta	1
Shu Duan	1
John Robinson	1
Suraj Gupta	1
Felix Ruiz Hernandez	1
Paul Kedrosky	1
Ion Tiriac	1
Anthony Clark	1
Kevin Liles	1
Chelsea Handler	1
Larry Marcus	1
Daniel Patricio	1
Dejana Dua	1
Mike Edwards	1
Hugo Arevalo	1
Marc Morin	1
Lev Ekster	1
Álvaro Morata	1
Caroline Somers	1
Shane Parrish	1
Ryan Holmes	1
Max Teitelbaum	1
Matt Bellamy	1
Janene Scordo	1
Anarghya Vardhana	1
Tina Swinton	1
Manny Bahia	1
Ben Narasin	1

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Diplo is an investor of Thomas Wesley Pentz, born November 10, 1978, better known by his stage name Diplo, is a Grammy-nominated American DJ, music producer, rapper and songwriter based in Los Angeles, California. He founded and manages record company Mad Decent, as well as co-founding the non-profit organization Heaps Decent. Amongother jobs, he has worked as a school teacher in Philadelphia. He is also the co-creator and lead member of the electronic dancehall music project, Major Lazer. His 2013 EP Revolution debuted at number 68 on the US Billboard 200.During his rise to fame, Diplo worked with British musician M.I.A., an artist who is credited with giving him exposure in his early career. Later, he and fellow M.I.A. producer Switch created a Jamaican dancehall project titled Major Lazer. Since then, Diplo has worked on production and mixtape projects with many other notable pop artists, such as Britney Spears, Beyoncé, No Doubt, Justin Bieber, Usher, Snoop Dogg, CL and G-Dragon. His alias, short for Diplodocus, derives from his childhood fascination with dinosaurs. He is the co-producer of several tracks on Madonna's 2015 album Rebel Heart (2015) and he collaborated with Skrillex to create the group Jack Ü.Source:

Investment focus

Apps, Media and Entertainment, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Angel
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
CXIP Labs — Welcome to CXIP Labs, makers of Holograph, a multichain digital asset protocol.
Stationhead — Stationhead is the place for music fans around the world to connect, listen live, and stream together.

Gemini Waghmare is the Co-Founder at Openscreen, Inc.

Investment focus

Fashion, Software, E-Commerce
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

loopt — loopt is a platform that powers brands rental subscription programs. Increasing sustainability, customer loyalty and revenue.

Ted Rheingold was an experienced owner/operator that realigned his Internet, startup and business experience to grow cause-oriented for-profit businesses. He was Strategic Advisor for delivering services traditionally provided by non-profit. He recently wrote about his InVenture provides financial identity and credit scoring services to the previously unbanked in South Asia and Africa. It offers free SMS, Voice and Android money-management tools for small business owners and head of households and licenses it's credit scoring services and algorithms to finance institutions, NGOs, governments, and credit providers. Ted is perhaps best know for founding and serving as CEO of Dogster, Inc. makers of Ted sold Dogster & Catster to Ted's first business Previously Ted served as Engineering Production Leads at Voquette and Preview TravelHe has served as a Mentor with 500 Startups and i/o Ventures. And has Investor and Advised at Lumatic, Colingo, Visually, TastemakerX, Petsana, DogVacay, StoryPanda, Reclip.it, Colloquy, Ad Hoc Labs & Cir.caTed Rheingold died from kidney cancer on September 4, 2017.

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile, Finance
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Colingo — Colingo was founded in 2011 to break down barriers to personal, social, and economic opportunities by teaching people around the world to speak English.Colingo offers a live, online English school with teacher-led group conversation classes, personalized skills-training and private tutoring.Through its live video classes, Colingo provides apersonalized path to English fluency for global professionals who have a basic understanding of English, but lack the confidence and skills to speak in conversational settings. Offered 24 hours a day, Colingo's classes blend authentic conversation about contemporary topics with structured skills training and assessment of over 70 core grammar and pronunciation skills. An average class size of three to five provides an intimate, low-pressure environment where students can gain comfort and confidence while improving core skills and receive feedback.
Digit — Get the all-in-one money app that budgets, saves, and invests for you. Try Digit free for 30 days.
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.

Jay brings more than 20 years of experience in software development to organizations he works, most recently focusing on social networking services in Mobility & Telco markets. Jay was a founding employee and CTO of UXP Systems that was acquired by Amdocs in 2018. He is currently the CTO of Amdocs Media and is directly responsible for R&Dfor the Identity and Commerce division. He was a technical advisor to Social Deck (acquired by Google), Rubikloud (acquired by Kinaxis) and is an advisor to Deveron a public Agricultural Data Science company.Jay maintained roles in development at Delrina, Symantec, Solect Technology Group, AudienceView Ticketing and was Vice President of Technology and founding employee at Casero Inc (acquired by Radialpoint)

Investment focus

Fashion, Software, E-Commerce
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

loopt — loopt is a platform that powers brands rental subscription programs. Increasing sustainability, customer loyalty and revenue.

Jeff B. Smith is the Co-founder and Partner at Ignite Growth Brands.

Investment focus

Fashion, Software, E-Commerce
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

loopt — loopt is a platform that powers brands rental subscription programs. Increasing sustainability, customer loyalty and revenue.

Harley Finkelstein is the Co-Founder of Firebelly Tea and the President of Shopify. He previously worked at C100 as a Board Member. Harley Finkelstein attended the University of Ottawa and Concordia University.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Apps
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Foraged — 13K Followers, 701 Following, 195 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Foraged Market (@foraged.market)
Fleek — Fleek is a B2B Wholesale Marketplace for second-hand fashion. Our buyers are vintage stores and online resellers; our suppliers are used clothing wholesalers, rag-houses, and donation centres.
Super.com — Through rich rewards and everyday savings, Super helps you access more of what you want at better prices, escape overspending, and level up life.

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 — Code is a Canadian payment platform provider that makes it simple for web developers to collect modest payments from consumers worldwide.
Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
Open Social — A multi-chain, modular and open-source protocol providing the tools for developers to create the next generation of social apps.

Benjamin Moore is the Founder and CEO of Bubble Paper. Benjamin Moore attended Clemson University.

Investment focus

Fashion, Manufacturing, Product Design
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Outway — Inspiring personal bests.

Allen Shim is a Board Member of MSD Acquisition Corp. He attended The Wharton School.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Scheduling
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, Canada, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Vartana — Close more deals and increase cash flow with Vartana
Calico — The smartest way to manage production. Calico saves product companies thousands of hours every year with intelligent workflows, easy to use tools and an elite factory network.
Super.com — Through rich rewards and everyday savings, Super helps you access more of what you want at better prices, escape overspending, and level up life.

Jeremy Lai, CEO of Italic.

Investment focus

Fashion, Software, Textiles
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Calico — The smartest way to manage production. Calico saves product companies thousands of hours every year with intelligent workflows, easy to use tools and an elite factory network.

Joseph Roos - Principal @ Marc Bell Ventures

Investment focus

Fashion, Consumer, Lifestyle
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Inkbox — Here to help you express you. Our tattoos last 1-2 weeks and fade as your skin naturally regenerates. Painless and easy to apply. Delivered to your doorstep.

Deborah Liu is the CEO at Ancestry. She is also a board memebr of Intuit.

Investment focus

Software, E-Learning, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Australia

Portfolio highlights

ReciMe — The #1 app to save recipes from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook & more!
teachme.to — Discover the easiest way to learn something new with private lessons tailored for all ages and skills
Keebler Health — Keebler Health is an AI-first risk adjustment platform for providers and payers that are at risk for Medicare & Medicaid lives.

Jay Brown has served as a member of our Board since January 2014. Jay Brown, a 20-year music industry executive veteran, fostered the careers and discovered countless superstars including Rihanna and Ne-Yo and worked with artists such as NAS. Jay Brown is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Roc Nation, a full-service entertainment companystarted in 2008. Mr. Brown currently overseas the careers of a diverse Roc Nation roster comprised of Grammy award winning and critically acclaimed recording artists, writers and producers including Rihanna, Shakira, Timbaland, Kylie Minogue and Santigold. Prior to Roc Nation, Mr. Brown served as Executive Vice President for Def Jam Recordings from 2005 to 2008 and as Senior Vice President of Elektra Records from 1999 to 2004. Our Board has concluded that Mr. Brown should serve on the Board based upon his experience as an entrepreneur and senior executive and his broad knowledge of the music and entertainment industries.

Investment focus

Beauty, Retail, Fashion
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Pela — World's First 100% Compostable, Eco-Friendly iPhone and Android phone cases working towards plastic free oceans!
Right Rice — RightRice is a tasty new rice grain that's made from vegetables. It's what they all love about rice, but made even right-er. RightRice is a complete, plant-based protein that's delicious, nutritious, and easy to cook. Every bowl of RightRice has more than double the protein, five times the fiber, and almost 40 percent fewer net carbsthan a bowl of white rice. Just like rice, RightRice soaks up your favorite flavors and sauces. Original RightRice is ready to season your own way, or you can try one of their delicious, already seasoned varieties like Lemon Pepper, Spanish or Garlic Herb—all using real herbs and spices, nothing artificial, non-GMO, vegan, and a complete source of protein, all with a low glycemic index.
Alchemy — Whether you're a beginner, working on a side project, or one of the largest teams in the blockchain space, Alchemy makes Ethereum development easy with enhanced APIs, node infrastructure, and developer tooling. Get started for free!

Mona Patel, Founder, Vasant Cosmetics.

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion, Marketplace
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

THE LNK — Our mission: to empower independent brands to chase their dreams. By simplifying the buying process and bringing together fashion shoppers & artisans.

Carla Matheson

Investment focus

Fashion, Manufacturing, Product Design
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Outway — Inspiring personal bests.

Hilary Duff

Investment focus

Fashion, Beauty, Cosmetics
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Cubcoats — 2-in-1 wearable & playable transforming friends. A take everywhere that kids and parents equally adore.
NUDESTIX — NUDESTIX provides cruelty-free, vegan makeup products that enhance natural beauty for a fresh-faced, nude look. Shop lip and cheek pencils, face highlighters and more.
Kopari Beauty — At Kopari, we believe everything you put onto your body matters. Each one of our products is made with luxurious skin-loving ingredients for all of your beauty needs. From skin to hair to personal care, Kopari makes clean coconut products for your everywhere.

Anna Sinclair is an award-winning entrepreneur, early-stage investor and CEO of Total Mom Inc. She produced Canada’s largest holistic festival for moms called “The Total Mom Show” in partnership with some of North America’s largest brands. Recognized as one of the Top 100 Most Powerful Women In Canada, top 50 influential women leaders, and Womenof Influence, Anna has been featured in Forbes as a contributor and Business Council member.She grew a massive community network of moms juggling motherhood and business. This online e-learning education community platform helps women grow, start, and grow their businesses with a focus on growing social and financial capital through a profitable and sustainable business model.Today, Total Mom has an annual reach of 24M + in Canada & US. She supports ambitious founders through a community of 20k+ moms, making it known as one of the fastest-growing online professional networks of mom entrepreneurs. Her experience working with over 350+ brands gives her the knowledge and experience to touch any aspect of a project from top to bottom. She secured over 3 million in sponsorship dollars to date through her firm Sinclair Creative Agency Inc., where she advises both individuals and consumer lifestyle brands on branding and business strategy, content marketing, and asset development.

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion, Shopping
Angel
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Apricotton — Comfy bras made for tween, pre-teen, and teen girls that are adjustable to a girl's body as she goes through puberty. The best bras, sports bras, bralettes, and scrunchies for girls in middle school and high school. Designed in Canada.

Jonathan Becker is a partner at Headline. Jonathan was a software engineer at the Otto Group and studied computer science.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, Denmark, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Outway — Inspiring personal bests.
Zive — All your company's knowledge, universally accessible to all employees.
Gorilla — We empower Energy Retailers in pricing, forecasting and reporting with data-driven solutions in boosting speed and flexibility.

Sarah Kunst is the managing director of Cleo Capital & a contributing editor at Marie Claire Magazine. She has served as a senior advisor at Bumble where she focused on their corporate VC arm Bumble Fund and on the board of the Michigan State University Foundation endowment. Kunst has been named a Future Innovator by Vanity Fair, Forbes 30Under 30 and a top 25 innovator in tech by Cool Hunting. She has been recognized for her work in Business Insider as a 30 under 30 Women in Tech and Top African-American in Tech & Pitchbook Top Black VC To Watch and honored as a top woman in VC by the Wall St. Journal and named a top DealmakeHer by the National Retail Federation. She was also named a coach for the Cartier Women’s Initiative.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Women's
Seed, Series B, Angel
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Avochato — Avochato is a mobile messaging platform designed for customer relationship management. It enables business teams to connect with customers and deliver a seamless and efficient messaging experience every step of the way, from lead capture and nurturing to post-sale support.
Littlefund — Send a gift that can grow with them.
HiNOTE — HiNOTE: modern messaging for any occasion. Customize & send your best text, card, invite, social post with individuality, high-touch humor & style.

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.

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.

Jason Warner is the Co-founder, CEO of poolside. He previously worked at Redpoint Ventures as a Managing Director. Jason Warner attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Spain

Portfolio highlights

c/side — Third-party scripts are a key part of the supply chain, giving 3rd party access to sensitive data or allowing malicious actions in the browser of your user. c/side helps you regain control over your website.
Series — Series provides full-stack enterprise financial services designed for institutions & enterprises.
Patronus AI — The industry-first automated evaluation platform that detects Large Language Model (LLM) mistakes at scale and use generative AI with confidence.

Tobyn Sowden is the CEO at Redbrick.He attended University of Victoria.

Investment focus

iOS, Music, Android
Seed, Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Outway — Inspiring personal bests.
Hidden Bands — We put bands on the map. Our free music discovery app brings users into the real world to find exclusive music and engage with artists. Users download our free app, and similar to Pokémon GO they follow a map to capture exclusive free music. We then link the song to the artist's streaming (Spotify, Apple Music) and social platforms (YouTube,IG,Bandcamp) to consume more of the artist's content.Users are rewarded to re-hiding songs in new locations and artists receive full analytics into song plays at a hyper geographic level. Artists use this info to plan tours. Unlike Spotify and YouTube we also allow artists to email users directly inside our app.The app is free for both users and artists and complements existing streaming and social platforms by solving the problem of discoverability in a fun gamified way.
Cognito Health — Canada's only integrated online mental health solution. Accessible and affordable treatment for your mental health. Book a free initial assessment today.

Reetu Gupta is the Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer at Rogue Insight Capital Ltd. Reetu attended the Schulich School of Business.

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion, Marketplace
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

THE LNK — Our mission: to empower independent brands to chase their dreams. By simplifying the buying process and bringing together fashion shoppers & artisans.

Shu Duan - Director @ Credit Suisse

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
Seed, Funding Round, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Tara AI — Software should work for you, not the other way around. Yet, most software for product development is difficult to use and needs a lot of time to configure; it was not purpose-built for modern, cross-functional teams building rapidly.At Tara, we’re designing simple yet powerful software to solve these complex problems. We've built a smartplatform that's helping thousands of engineers and teams deliver on planned releases, with improved predictability.Launched in public beta in April, 2020.
Pathmind — Pathmind helps simulation modelers optimize decisions in industrial operations and supply chains using deep reinforcement learning with an intuitive Web app. Use cases include manufacturing automation, supply chain, warehouse control, machine scheduling, and fleet routing. Pathmind integrates with AnyLogic and other simulation software, and allowssimulations modelers to discover better decision paths through complex scenarios with state of the art AI. Pathmind is a Y Combinator company.
Adarza BioSystems — Adarza BioSystems is an early-stage medical diagnostics company developing a rapid and label-free biological assay platform for measuring clinical and point-of-care (POC) samples. In addition to performing sophisticated clinical tests within minutes, this technology potentially allowing hundreds of tests to be run simultaneously on a single chip.It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in St Louis, Missouri.

John Robinson

Investment focus

Fashion, Product Design, Media and Entertainment
Funding Round
Canada

Portfolio highlights

JIGSAW — Shop Jigsaw women's clothing online, including dresses, tops, occasionwear, workwear, skirts, shoes, boots and accessories.

Suraj K. Gupta is the Co-Founder, President & CEO at Rogue Insight Capital Ltd. Suraj attended Columbia Business School.

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion, Marketplace
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

THE LNK — Our mission: to empower independent brands to chase their dreams. By simplifying the buying process and bringing together fashion shoppers & artisans.

Félix Ruiz, founder of Tuenti and president of Jobandtalent. He has invested in startups Jobandtalent, Syltek, Vitcord, Fudeat, Glovo or Deporvillage. As a business angel does not follow any pattern, invest for the team. Bet on internationally scalable projects that do not depend on a single market. Personal investments are made as entertainmentwithout being involved in day to day. When it involves investors, it decides to be part of the company's operations, such as Jobandtalent. He is considered an architect and accelerator of companies, invests in the technology and restoration sectors. His two exits are Tuenti and Buytheface.

Investment focus

Software, Logistics, Mobile Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Spain, Canada

Portfolio highlights

GuruCall — Next step on knowledge sharing and content platform.
Playtomic — Playtomic operates an online sports court booking platform intended to become a social network for sports players. It provides a platform to reserve courts, find other players with similar skill levels, and join a social sports community dedicated to learning that helps sports clubs to optimize the use of their facilities and step into the digitalage.Playtomic was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
CoverManager — CoverManager is a tool for creating, sell and managing reservations of a restaurant.

Dr. Kedrosky is a co-founder and managing partner at SK Ventures, an early-stage venture firm. He has more than two dozen investments in drones, mobile, software as a service, and other areas. He has sold companies to Cisco, Twitter, and many others.He is currently a contributing editor at Bloomberg, where he comments regularly on early-stagetechnology & startups. He has been an advisor to the Kauffman Foundation, and remains an advisor to OMERS Ventures, a large Canadian venture investor. He was previously a venture partner with Venture West, a $500m venture capital firm. Dr Kedrosky began his career in technology sales & marketing, before becoming a technology equity research analyst at various major investment banks. He has an undergraduate degree in engineering, a master's in finance, and PhD in information technology.

Investment focus

Software, Events, Product Search
Seed, Series C
United States, Canada

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.
Wealthfront — Diversify your investing with an automated portfolio that can help maximize your returns and minimize your taxes. Control your risk, investments, and allocations by customizing your portfolio with the things you care about most.
ONtheGO Platforms — ONtheGO Platforms is a developer of software applications for smart glasses. It offers a gesture recognition software that turns any mobile device with a standard camera into a gesture interface, for runners, and endurance athletes. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

Ion Tiriac

Investment focus

Fashion, Lingerie, Textiles
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Black Limba — Black Limba is lingerie startup

Anthony Clark is the Development Manager at Shopify.

Investment focus

Fashion, Software, Textiles
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Calico — The smartest way to manage production. Calico saves product companies thousands of hours every year with intelligent workflows, easy to use tools and an elite factory network.

Kevin Liles, CEO, and Co-Founder at 300 Entertainment. He attended Morgan State University.

Investment focus

Music, Retail, Fashion
Series A, Seed
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Burb — Burb is a cannabis culture brand with retail stores serving the Greater Vancouver Area. Shop Burb's latest ready-to-wear and accessories online. Secure & Easy Checkout with fast worldwide shipping.
Stationhead — Stationhead is the place for music fans around the world to connect, listen live, and stream together.
Creative Intell — Real education for the real music business

Chelsea Joy Handler is an American comedian, actress, writer, television host, and producer.

Investment focus

Fashion, News, Beauty
Series A, Angel, Series B
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

NUDESTIX — NUDESTIX provides cruelty-free, vegan makeup products that enhance natural beauty for a fresh-faced, nude look. Shop lip and cheek pencils, face highlighters and more.
theSkimm — theSkimm makes it easier to live smarter. You're welcome. Join the millions who wake up with us every morning.
League One Volleyball — The largest community of youth volleyball clubs with its professional league launching in January 2025, League One Volleyball (LOVB) is re-imagining the future of volleyball.

Actively making new investments in consumer and culture with Marcy Venture Partners, a VC firm co-founded with JAY-Z and Jay Brown. Managing Director at Walden Venture CapitalInvestments include: Savage X Fenty, Pela, Hungry, Wheels, Hipcamp, Partake Foods, Pandora (founding investor - IPO, exit to Sirius XM) , SoundHound, Aarki, goTenna, HatchBaby, TouchBistro (exit), Robust Wealth (acquired by Principal Financial Group), Terayon (acquired by Motorola). Angel investments: include Netflix (IPO), BandPage (acquired by Google), Maestro, Jukely, LyricFind. Prior to Walden, Larry was a digital media sell-side Equity Research Analyst at Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown. Led IPOs of Terayon, CBS MarketWatch, Netflix (initial S-1 IPO filing), Maxis (acquired by Electronic Arts), Edmark (acquired by IBM) and among other equity and debt financings (Broderbund, Sierra On-line, Excite@Home, Spectrum Holobyte, CBS Sportsline). Prior experience includes Robertson Stephens & Company, Education: Larry received a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley. See the music he loves at www.pandora.com/people/larry. He was named to the Billboard Power 100 in music and the Twitter 140 to follow.

Investment focus

Mobile, E-Commerce, Music
Series B, Seed, Series A
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Pela — World's First 100% Compostable, Eco-Friendly iPhone and Android phone cases working towards plastic free oceans!
Maestro Interactive Inc — Maestro provides a white-label platform for enterprise live streamers to own, engage, and monetize their audiences. We focus on engagement tools that drive actions at key moments while capturing user data to be used in analytics and marketing campaigns. Customers include Microsoft, PlayStation, E3, ESL, Capcom, WB Games, ELEAGUE, and more.
Fetch Delivery — With Fetch, you can get free gift cards simply for shopping, snapping all your receipts and playing games on your phone! Try our rewards app today.

Daniel Patricio

Investment focus

Fashion, Software, Textiles
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Calico — The smartest way to manage production. Calico saves product companies thousands of hours every year with intelligent workflows, easy to use tools and an elite factory network.

Partner

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion, Shopping
Angel
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Apricotton — Comfy bras made for tween, pre-teen, and teen girls that are adjustable to a girl's body as she goes through puberty. The best bras, sports bras, bralettes, and scrunchies for girls in middle school and high school. Designed in Canada.

Mike has a wealth of experience in building and scaling consumer technology companies in private and public markets

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.

Hugo Arévalo is co-founder of Buytheface , Bright & Sharp , and Albau Ventures . In addition, he has invested in: Jobandtalent , Cabify , Ontruck and Deporvillage : and has led the 50M € round of Hawkers . One of its criteria is the qualification of management. Lately, it is focused on investing in marketplace, fintech and ecommerce, althoughit is open to any sector. Among his exits, Tuenti and Buytheface stand out .

Investment focus

Software, Mobile Apps, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Spain, Canada, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Chift — Offer native integrations within your software. Your clients connect your software to their tools in one click. Connect easily to Accounting, POS, Invoicing, e-commerce, etc.
Embat — Keep your cash flows, cash accounts, debt positions and forecasts monitored and automated real time.
Imperia — Boost your supply chain with Imperia. A SaaS tool uniting demand, production, and procurement

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Uvaro — Start your career in tech! Learn from experienced instructors, practice new skills and get feedback in a supportive community. Sign up today!
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.

Lev Ekster is the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at Bowlero Corporation . Lev Ekster attended New York Law School.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Consumer Goods, Lifestyle
Seed, Series A, Series D
United States, Canada, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Tributi — Tributi is a Colombian fintech start-up backed by Y Combinator. It is drastically reducing tax compliance friction for individuals in Latin America by automating tax filing preparation.
Elroy Air — Expanding the reach of express logistics via aerial cargo systems - safely, efficiently and autonomously.
cadence — The next generation of refillable travel containers for your personal care and toiletries. Patent-pending, leakproof and highly durable capsules made from recycled ocean-bound plastic. Sustainable and easy to use.

Álvaro Morata

Investment focus

Fashion, Lingerie, Textiles
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Black Limba — Black Limba is lingerie startup
Golf GameBook — Track scores for 20+ game formats with Golf GameBook, the #1 golf scorecard. Connect with friends and follow every game with live leaderboards.

Caroline Somers - Chair @ Capital Angel Network

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion, Shopping
Seed, Angel
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Granite Networks — Granite Networks is committed to respecting the privacy of individuals and recognizes the need of people with whom we do business, clients, customers, and employees for the appropriate management and protection of any Personal Information that you agree to provide to us.
Rent frock Repeat — Get $25 off your subscription clothing box by using my unique discount code: refebcf51bbb1db3

Shane Parrish is the Chief Executive Officer of Syrus Partner.

Investment focus

Fashion, Fitness, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Outway — Inspiring personal bests.
Primer — Primer is the world's first community built for curious and ambitious kids to find and explore their interests together.
AG1 — Athletic Greens is proudly manufactured in New Zealand, using a TGA-registered facility with standards far in excess of cGMP and FDA guidelines. It is made clean and green. Athletic Greens was formulated by research doctorates and nutritionists with a 60 years' combined experimental and clinical experience.

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.

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.

Max Teitelbaum is Founder & COO at WhatRunsWhere.

Investment focus

Fashion, E-Commerce, Advertising
Seed
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.

Matthew James "Matt" Bellamy (born 9 June 1978) is an English musician best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, pianist, and principal songwriter of rock band Muse. He is often recognized for his eccentric stage persona, wide tenor vocal range, and piano and guitar abilities.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MindPortal — The future of personal computing.
Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
Nobell Foods — Farm fresh animal-free cheese that melts, stretches, tastes, goozes, oozes, bubbles, pops, tingles, and everything else to make your brain explode.

Janene Scordo

Investment focus

Fashion, Manufacturing, Product Design
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Outway — Inspiring personal bests.

Anarghya Vardhana currently works as the Partner for Maveron. She previously worked at Rothenberg Ventures as an Investor.

Investment focus

Consumer, Health Care, Apps
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Inkbox — Here to help you express you. Our tattoos last 1-2 weeks and fade as your skin naturally regenerates. Painless and easy to apply. Delivered to your doorstep.
Goodbill — Goodbill helps people fight hospital bills. It's the fastest and simplest way to save money without weeks of research and hours of phone calls.
Career Karma — Learn about bootcamps, ask questions and read reviews to find the best job training program for you. Connect with peers, coaches and mentors to accelerate your technology career.

Tina Swinton

Investment focus

Fashion, Manufacturing, Product Design
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Outway — Inspiring personal bests.

Manny Bahia - CRO @ Daily Hive

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion, Marketplace
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

THE LNK — Our mission: to empower independent brands to chase their dreams. By simplifying the buying process and bringing together fashion shoppers & artisans.

Ben Narasin is the Founder and General Partner at Tenacity Venture Capital. He attended International Christian University, Babson College, and Harvard University.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

SoleSavy — SoleSavy memberships provides you the tools and resources you need to successfully purchase the product you want for retail.
Vendelux — AI-Powered Event Intelligence Platform with speaker, sponsor and attendee data covering over 250,000 trade shows and conferences.
ProductWind — ProductWind is the only retail influencer marketing platform that helps enterprise brands drive social content, SEO and reviews to ramp online retail sales faster.

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