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Top 50 Financial Services Angel Investors in Canada in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Financial services startups based in Canada. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Financial services companies from Canada. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Financial Services Angel Investors in Canada in December 2024

Investor	Financial Services Canada investments
Tom Williams	8
Meltem Demirors	5
Zaeem Shaukat Mirza	4
Balaji Srinivasan	4
Satish Kanwar	3
Dimeji Sofowora	3
Adegoke Olubusi	3
Olugbenga Agboola	3
Alex Norman	3
Ray Muzyka	3
Tobias Lütke	3
Arjun Sethi	3
Markus Frind	3
Joseph Canavan	3
Prosper Otemuyiwa	2
Lance Tracey	2
Adam Felesky	2
Jane Wang	2
Mike Murchison	2
Nadav Ben-Chanoch	2
Anatoly Yakovenko	2
Lachy Groom	2
Roger Martin	2
Raj Gokal	2
Olugbenga Agboola	2
Bryan Rosenblatt	2
Kirk Simpson	2
Hanif Joshaghani	2
Michael Katchen	2
Kevin Sandhu	2
Dennis Bennie	2
Tinie Tempah	2
Mai Fujimoto	2
Paul Hill	2
Neil Mitchell	2
Nicolas Bouchard	2
Neil Mitchell	2
Joe Canavan	2
Don Fox	2
Marcos Lopez	2
Michael Dunworth	2
Wes Hall	2
Phil Gibson	2
Mike Broadfoot	2
Ryan Holmes	2
Roham Gharegozlou	2
James Lochrie	2
Anatoly Yakovenko	2
Evan Ferguson	2
Kain Warwick	2

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Tom Williams

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Unito — Discover 2-way integrations to empower your digital organization to sync securely in under 12 minutes with a no-code solution.
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.

Meltem Demirors is Chief Strategy Officer of CoinShares, an investment firm that manages $750M in assets, and is a trusted partner to investors and entrepreneurs navigating the digital asset ecosystem. Meltem oversees the firm’s managed strategies group and its New York office, and leads corporate development as a board director. Previously, shewas part of the founding team of Digital Currency Group. She teaches at MIT and Oxford, and serves on the WEF Blockchain Council. Meltem leads CoinShares' venture strategy and is an active angel investor, having invested in over 150 companies in the digital currency ecosystem since 2015.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
Magma — Magma is a decentralized liquid staking protocol built on the Monad Network, an Ethereum-compatible Layer 1 blockchain.
Fluid Protocol — Fluid Protocol is a decentralized, over-collateralized lending mechanism designed especially for Fuel Network. In order to maximize capital efficiency, Fluid offers users a safe and effective method of releasing liquidity from their collateral without having to liquidate their underlying assets.

Zaeem is a dynamic professional with a passion for launching, building, and managing global brands and companies. He has a proven track record of creating substantial revenue impact through precision marketing, demand generation, scaled customer acquisition, digital strategies, and e-commerce initiatives.With experience spanning over 90 countriesand 175 cities, Zaeem has honed his expertise in global marketing, marketing operations, growth marketing, user acquisition, digital transformation, e-commerce, online sales, customer relationship management, and demand generation at scale. He has had the privilege of working with industry-leading companies such as Rewaa, Dentsu iProspect, AmoebaCom, Qatar Airways, and Google, where he has driven scale and efficiency in global business and marketing operations.Zaeem has successfully managed diverse teams and portfolios across 24 languages, with marketing budgets exceeding $100 million, contributing to revenues in the billions. His commitment to social impact is evident through his consultancy work with various organizations in management, fundraising, and non-profit marketing.An alumnus of INSEAD, Singapore, where he graduated from the Marketing Academy, Zaeem aspires to pursue a Ph.D. in Marketing Technology. His academic credentials include being a University of Mumbai ranker, a mass communication graduate from St. Xavier’s College (Mumbai, IN), and a post-graduate in advertising management from MICA (IN).Zaeem is also a dedicated mentor and investor, driven by a desire to nurture entrepreneurs who are passionate about technology, product innovation, or social impact. His enthusiasm for continual learning sees him facilitating media and business school programs, conducting corporate workshops, and speaking at industry conferences on topics such as marketing strategy, e-commerce, brand management, and non-profit marketing.Outside of work, Zaeem enjoys slow traveling, reading, painting, exploring new business opportunities, and spending quality time with family and friends.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Equity Crowdfunding, Secondary Market, Seed
United States, Canada, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Caary — CAARY is a digital credit, lending and payments platform, offering a corporate credit card for SMEs, including start-ups. It enables these businesses to better access credit and manage their spending, through provision of virtual and physical credit or payment cards to employees, utilizing a digital dashboard for receipt management, cardmanagement, and integration to the accounting system, eliminating time-consuming reconciliation. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Toronto, Canada.
UMMAH1.com — UMMAH1.com is a journey with the goal of connecting the community for collective progress! Among the many planned initiatives, we are starting with a digital-first marketing and technology solutions initiative for growth-focused social impact organizations.
UMMAH1.org — UMMAH1.org is a journey with the goal of connecting the community for collective progress! Among the many planned initiatives, we are starting with a digital-first marketing and technology solutions initiative for growth-focused social impact organizations.

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the co-founder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ZAR — Enjoy borderless banking with a USD Visa card powered by stablecoins. Available in 180+ countries. Sign up for your account today!
The Arena — Arena. social is a cutting-edge SocialFi platform that is revolutionizing how content producers interact, network, and make money from their work.
OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.

Satish Kanwar is a VP of Product at Shopify, where he oversees strategic product initiatives for over 1 million merchants globally. Satish led Shopify’s formative expansion from online stores to multi-channel commerce, accelerating merchants' sales across eCommerce, brick-and-mortar, and new sales channels. Satish previously co-founded userexperience studio Jet Cooper, which was acquired by Shopify in order to establish its product development footprint in Toronto. Satish is an active angel investor, public speaker, and advisor.He attended the University of Toronto Scarborough.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, FinTech, Art
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
Disco — One platform to build, market, and sell live courses, workshops, and learning communities.
Stadium Live Studios — Stadium Live is a unique digital world for sports & esports fans - create, connect and play with fans around the world to shape your own stadium.

Dimeji Sofowora is a co-founder at Helium Health.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Payments
Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Payday — Send and receive money globally. Create virtual Mastercards that work anywhere online.
Payday Global — Send & Receive money globally

Goke is one of Africa's finest entrepreneurs at the forefront of technology disruptions across Africa. A Johns Hopkins University alumni and previously an engineer at eBay, PayPal and Goldman Sachs in the U.S., Goke has a penchant for solving tough problems. He served on the founding team of Africa's leading social network with 30m+ usersand received multiple honours/awards from Forbes, Chevron, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, etc.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Payments
Pre-Seed
Canada, Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

Panda Salud — Singapore pools merupakan layanan live draw sgp yang sudah bisa anda saksikan melalui live draw sgp prize. Result sgp pools diadakan setiap jam 17.45 wib.
Payday — Send and receive money globally. Create virtual Mastercards that work anywhere online.
Payday Global — Send & Receive money globally

Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
Pre-Seed, Seed
Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

tushop — Tushop is a community group buying platform where members can sell groceries to those in their social networks and communities.
Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Raycast — A collection of powerful productivity tools all within an extendable launcher.
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.

Arjun Sethi is the Co-CEO of Kraken Digital Asset Exchange. He attended the University of Maryland.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Nibiru Chain — Nibiru is a smart contract ecosystem with a high-performance, EVM-equivalent execution layer. Nibiru is engineered to meet the growing demand for versatile, scalable, and easy-to-use Web3 applications.
DAOLens — Tasks, Proposals, Bounties, and Payouts in one place
Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees

Markus Frind

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 helps top enterprises deliver digital experiences that are hyper-personalized based on the science behind consumer behaviour.
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.

Joseph C. Canavan was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Assante Wealth Management and United Financial Corporation, an affiliated asset management firm until November 2009. Assante is a national wealth management company with $27 billion in assets under administration, for over 300,000 clients across Canada.Prior to joining Assante, Mr.Canavan was the President and CEO of Synergy Asset Management, a wealth management company he founded in December 1997 – an organization which quickly became known as one of Canada’s most innovative mutual fund companies. Synergy was acquired by CI Financial in October 2003.In 1994, he launched GT Global (Canada), which became the fastest-growing mutual fund company in Canadian history. Under Mr. Canavan’s leadership, the company gained $2.4 billion in assets in less than 30 months. GT Global is now part of AIM Trimark. In 1989, he joined Fidelity Investments. As Vice President and Director of National Sales, he helped grow assets from $60 million to $6 billion in four years. He began his career as a financial advisor with Burns Fry Ltd.Mr. Canavan was awarded “Person of Influence of the Decade” at the Canadian Investment Awards in 2004. In 2006, he was honoured as Concordia University’s “Alumnus of the Year.”

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Personal Finance
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Signal 1 — Our platform provides doctors and nurses with real-time patient insights, conveniently integrated into clinical workflows.
Savvyy Studio — Savvyy provides modern technology to help banks and other lenders underwriter and service mortagage.
KOHO Financial — Open an everyday spending account online with instant cash back & premium rewards. Join over 1.5M Canadians using KOHO's prepaid Mastercard to spend, save, build and borrow. Sign up in minutes!

Prosper Otemuyiwa is a Co-founder of forLoop Africa. He attended Babcock University.

Investment focus

FinTech, CRM, Telecommunications
Pre-Seed, Angel
Nigeria, Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Frain technologies — We're passionate about the product delivery value chain.
Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.
Sendchamp — Messagebird For Africa: Sendchamp provides Communication APIs & CRM for developers & businesses to reach their customers via different messaging channels such as SMS, Email, Voice, Whatsapp, and other digital messaging channels. Our APIs and No code tools help businesses in Africa from the stage of Customer Onboarding, CustomerEngagement, Customer Service & Customer Retention.

Lance Tracey - Founding Partner @ Full Stack

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!

Adam Felesky - CEO @ Portage Ventures

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Series A, Series B, Series C
Canada, United States, Cyprus

Portfolio highlights

Borrowell — Get your credit report and credit score for free. No credit card, SIN number or bank account required. It will take less than 3 minutes to check your credit and free monthly tracking forever.
CoverTree — Finally, a better kind of manufactured home insurance. Buy online and save up to 40% in less than 3 minutes. Powered by Three steps. Three minutes.
KOHO Financial — Open an everyday spending account online with instant cash back & premium rewards. Join over 1.5M Canadians using KOHO's prepaid Mastercard to spend, save, build and borrow. Sign up in minutes!

Founder and CEO of Optimity. Proactive Health Evangelist; Data Science Nerd; Authentic Leader #Anomaly #WonderWoman #Pioneer

Investment focus

Sales, Wellness, Insurance
Seed, Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Optimity — We apply behavioral science through gamification, incentives, and the power of communities to nudge consumers in making better, healthier choices.As a B2B platform, our large health community becomes a cost-effective lead-gen funnel. Our first set of clients are life insurance companies: Acquisition economics in life insurance are painfullywasteful: 70% of their total cost is spent on acquiring new policyholders. Our products help them acquire high-quality leads at the lowest cost, dramatically improving their acquisition economics.

Mike Murchison is the CEO and Co-Founder of Ada, the leading provider of AI customer support chatbots. Ada provides a simple and powerful authoring environment, cutting edge machine learning, and lightning-fast deployment, automating millions of chat conversations per month for clients such as TELUS, Coinbase, and Shopify. In partnership withGenesys, Ada is helping companies improve their customer experience, dramatically reduce costs, and increase support team productivity.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Art
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Lancey — Lancey is an interactive demo builder designed for sales and marketing teams to grow pipeline and close deals.
Shakepay — Shakepay allows Canadians to buy/sell bitcoin and pay their friends. We're on a mission to create open access to building wealth.
Garnet Labs — CI/CD security monitoring for modern development teams

Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Swaap — We we build & operate onchain trading systems.
micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.

Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
Blockcast — Blockcast is a next-generation content delivery network that utilizes one-to-many distribution to save costs. It is an open content delivery network (CDN) with a distinct caching architecture that offers large, flexible capacity.
Fragmetric — Fragmetric is a native liquid restaking mechanism for Solana that improve the Solana ecosystem's security and economic potential.

Lachy Groom is the Co-Founder of Physical Intelligence. He previously worked at Stripe as the Head of Stripe Issuing.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Even — Even is a health tech company and healthcare provider that partners directly with the top hospitals in the country to offer you unlimited diagnostics, consultations, and 50 lakh worth of hospitalisations all with one monthly subscription cost.
Nooks — Working with your team should be enjoyable & energizing. Nooks is the virtual office for your team to skip the fatiguing meetings and bring back impromptu collaboration & casual conversations.
Pacific Fusion — Pacific Fusion was founded in 2023 with the mission to power the world with abundant, affordable, clean energy.

Roger Martin is Premier’s Chair in Productivity & Competitiveness and Academic Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management. From 1998 to 2013, he served as Dean. Previously, he spent 13 years as a Director of Monitor Company, a global strategy consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where heserved as co-head of the firm for two years.

Investment focus

SaaS, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Borrowell — Get your credit report and credit score for free. No credit card, SIN number or bank account required. It will take less than 3 minutes to check your credit and free monthly tracking forever.
Taplytics — Taplytics provides zero bloat, cross-platform AB Testing solutions that power the experiences within today's leading apps and websites. Learn more.
Kira Talent — Make your admissions process more human. Kira transforms your admissions process with on-demand, timed video and timed written assessments. Kira works with more than 300 programs worldwide to build applicant-first assessments that identify and select their best-fit students.

Raj leads operations, product, and finance. He has spent 10 years in product management and finance.He was a venture investor at General Catalyst, started the consumer medical device company Sano which attracted over $20m in investment, and led product management at Omada Health as it grew tenfold.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
MeshMap — MeshMap is a decentralized 3D map developer focused on creating a decentralized 3D globe map and augmented reality (AR) content network.
IDA — IDA is the leading provider of digital asset solutions, allowing trust, transparency, and speed in payments and commerce. By leveraging blockchain technology, IDA opens up a more connected and inclusive global economy.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Pre-Seed, Seed
Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

SiPay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.

Bryan Rosenblatt (born July 4, 1989 in New York, New York, United States) is an American Venture Capitalist and entrepreneur. He is a Partner at Craft Ventures, a venture firm with over $2 billion AUM started by David Sacks. He is also a founder of Riverside Ventures, which he started in 2017, and a former executive at Reddit and Twitter. Hepreviously worked at Reddit as the Head of Sales. Bryan Rosenblatt attended the University of Connecticut School of Business and Charles University.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Dapper Labs — Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences that are made for you and ready for the real world.
Jomboy Media — A creator-led media company that breaks down sports at the expense of no one (except ourselves). Click to read Jomboy Media, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
Underdog Fantasy — Fantasy sports for real money

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Finance, Software
Seed, Angel, 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!
Ten Key Labs — Mantle is a next generation ownership and equity management platform for modern founders, powered by AI.
Float — All-in-one corporate cards, fast bill payments, reimbursements, and expense management software. Get started today for free.

Hanif is a serial entrepreneur who has raised $150M USD across the 4 companies he has founded and invested in over a dozen startups.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Pre-Seed, Angel, Series A
Canada

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.
Flahmingo — Saving and investing are not intuitive financial skills for the majority of Canadians. Many Canadians believe investing is only for the rich or that it requires significant capital to start. However, the 'next generation' of investors is changing this narrative by learning by doing and investing early. These new investors are being morethan just conscious of their financial return by also seeking a social return, by investing in brands they know and love, trust, and whose vision they support.Flahmingo is a native mobile application that allows DIY investors to begin investing with as little as $5. Using our proprietary Pies and Slices technology, Flahmingo enables users to build a portfolio of their favourite companies and exchange traded funds (ETFs). Using scheduled deposits and automagic round ups (both investment automation strategies), users seamlessly grow and maintain a diversified portfolio through the purchase and sale of fractional shares'. These fractional shares allow Flahmingo users to own as little as $1 in companies like Tesla, Alphabet, Amazon and even Berkshire Hathaway.
Littlebird — Littlebird's Toddler CareTracker tells you where your child is, who they are with, and how they are doing. Littlebird has an expanding suite of features including cellular connection, GPS, heart rate, temperature, activity and mode trends and dynamic activity feed connecting you with your little one's caregivers.

Founder & CEO. Entrepreneur, passionate about transforming investment management.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

KEEP Labs — The Modern medicine Cabinet and Data Platform. We partner with healthcare organizations to improve patient adherence by integrating and augmenting their programs, not displacing them.
Exact Technology — Discover innovative solutions to measure, monitor, and control concrete curing with EXACT Technology, ensuring efficiency, safety, and sustainability.
Float — All-in-one corporate cards, fast bill payments, reimbursements, and expense management software. Get started today for free.

Kevin Sandhu is the Co-Founder and CEO at Otter (www.otter.ca).

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series A, Pre-Seed
Canada

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.
Showbie — From assignments to collaboration, Showbie helps you bring your classroom together in one simple, easy to use app.
Flahmingo — Saving and investing are not intuitive financial skills for the majority of Canadians. Many Canadians believe investing is only for the rich or that it requires significant capital to start. However, the 'next generation' of investors is changing this narrative by learning by doing and investing early. These new investors are being morethan just conscious of their financial return by also seeking a social return, by investing in brands they know and love, trust, and whose vision they support.Flahmingo is a native mobile application that allows DIY investors to begin investing with as little as $5. Using our proprietary Pies and Slices technology, Flahmingo enables users to build a portfolio of their favourite companies and exchange traded funds (ETFs). Using scheduled deposits and automagic round ups (both investment automation strategies), users seamlessly grow and maintain a diversified portfolio through the purchase and sale of fractional shares'. These fractional shares allow Flahmingo users to own as little as $1 in companies like Tesla, Alphabet, Amazon and even Berkshire Hathaway.

Dennis Bennie is a pioneer, entrepreneur and innovator in the Canadian technology industry. Over the past 20 years, Bennie's entrepreneurial management has powered Mission Electronics, Ingram Canada and Delrina. In 1997, he founded the XDL Venture Capital Fund, focusing on information technology opportunities. The $25 million fund hasyielded exceptional returns to date. One of its most noteworthy investments was a 1997 start-up, Delano Technology Corporation (NASD:DTEC). XDL Intervest, a $150 million fund was started in 1999 and is now fully invested. Bennie currently manages an experienced team investing in private equity opportunities as the XDL Capital Group. From 1988 to 1996, Mr. Bennie was CEO of Delrina Corporation, an independent software developer and publisher, which forged the new software categories of electronic forms and PC fax communications. Under Mr. Bennie's leadership, Delrina pioneered the development of PC fax software called WinFax and became a world leader in the communication software market with annual sales revenue exceeding $130 million. Listed on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, Delrina cultivated a reputation for leadership, growth and profitability, and completed several public offerings. In November 1995, the company was successfully sold to Symantec Corporation for share consideration valued at $560 million. Mr. Bennie entered the world of technology in 1979, when he co-founded Mission Electronics. He drove the expansion of this leading British audio equipment manufacturer to become a dominant force in the high-end stereo market. In 1982 he sold his interest in Mission Electronics and founded Aviva Software, an independent, mass-market software developer. Under his direction, the company expanded its scope to include software distribution and merged with Ingram Micro Inc. in 1986 to become Canada's largest software distributor. Residing in Toronto, Canada, with his wife Laura and three daughters, Dennis is an avid golfer and runner. A member of the World President's Organization, he also regularly serves on various charitable boards including the Toronto Hospital Board.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Delphia — Invest with your data, not your money.
Tread — Tread's construction fleet management software makes the business of moving construction materials easier and more profitable. Request a demo today!
Thriver — Discover, book, and manage workplace culture services and employee experiences all in one place. Empower your team with effective employee engagement activities.

Tinie shot to prominence with his chart-topping album 'Disc-Overy' which featured the #1s 'Pass Out' & 'Written In the Stars'. 2 x BRITs, a MOBO and an Ivor Novello followed. His 2nd album 'Demonstration' featured collaborators such as Dizzee Rascal, Emeli Sandé & Laura Mvula. In 2015, Tinie returnedwith 'Not Letting Go' and a feature on KDA's 'Turn The Music Louder'. Both topped the charts to give him 7 UK #1s - the most by any artist this decade.

Investment focus

FinTech, Art, Apps
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Peggy — Peggy is a social marketplace that allows you to discover, buy, and sell investment-worthy art. A place for the art-curious and the art-expert, for the art gallery and artist. A new way forward for the art world.
Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
Gener8 — We believe that the advertising industry needs more transparency and that people should be able to control their own data. Our technology gives people the control that is currently missing. And if people choose to share their data with advertisers, we reward them for it. Consequently, people trust us and 83% of them share their data with us.Meaning that we have an incredible understanding about these people and their online behaviour. We work with companies (and their media agencies) in the capacity of a media owner to do three things: 1. Provide premium media for you to reach this highly defined audience.2. Use our proprietary first party data to unveil actionable insights about your customers, eg. their purchase habits.3. To promote your brand and drive an action from your audience.

Mai Fujimoto is known domestically and internationally as Miss Bitcoin. She has been promoting the spread of Bitcoin around the world since 2011.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Marketplace, Art
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Canada, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

RSS3 — RSS3 structures open information for the next Twitter, Google, and OpenAI.
GCR DAO — Global Coin Research is a Community-led DAO for Web3 Research & Investing. We source, vet & fund Pre-Seed to Series A opportunities. Join to Invest Together!
Brand New Vision — Brand New Vision uses smart contracts to help creators sell digital fashion and other accessories.

Paul Hill

Investment focus

Apps, SaaS, Insurance
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

QuickFacts — Insurance software for brokers. The first website they open in the morning. We save them up to 2 hours every day. Built by brokers for brokers.

Neil Mitchell is the Early-Stage and Series A Investor at Players Health. Neil Mitchell attended Global Risk Management Institute, Inc.

Investment focus

Apps, SaaS, Insurance
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

QuickFacts — Insurance software for brokers. The first website they open in the morning. We save them up to 2 hours every day. Built by brokers for brokers.

Nicolas Bouchard, founder of DuProprio.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, InsurTech
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

YouSet — YouSet's online platform helps you find the best insurance coverage instantly. Get an insurance quote in 4 minutes and save up with YouSet.

Neil Mitchell, former managing director at Marsh

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, InsurTech
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

YouSet — YouSet's online platform helps you find the best insurance coverage instantly. Get an insurance quote in 4 minutes and save up with YouSet.

Joe Canavan, principal of Canavan Capital

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, InsurTech
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

YouSet — YouSet's online platform helps you find the best insurance coverage instantly. Get an insurance quote in 4 minutes and save up with YouSet.

Don Fox, former executive vice president at Intact.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, InsurTech
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

YouSet — YouSet's online platform helps you find the best insurance coverage instantly. Get an insurance quote in 4 minutes and save up with YouSet.

Marcos Lopez is the Executive In Residence.Marcos Lopez attended University of Calgary.

Investment focus

Credit, FinTech, Software
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Credit App — Credit App is a fintech company that operates a credit application platform. The platform is designed to manage billions of applications, ranging from automotive to residential rentals. It provides a secure and efficient way for consumers to apply for credit. The company also offers tools and capabilities that enable lenders of all sizes to processapplications. In addition to serving online lenders and automotive dealerships, Credit App also caters to residential landlords, providing a comprehensive solution for credit application management.

Michael Dunworth Formerly CRM Manager and Analyst at Midwinter Financial. Co-Founded FullSociety.com in 2011 and merged with TimeOut.com in 2012.

Investment focus

FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Wyre — Wyre is a developer of a blockchain-based payment platform designed to change the future of how international payments are done. The company's platform provides real-time payouts, same-day transfers, and direct-to-bank transfers, enabling businesses to move money across borders from country-to-country at a competitive foreign exchange rate.Wyre's business owners can easily create an account and send money to any person or business without worrying about high foreign exchange rates, hidden fees, complicated payout timing, and high payment fees. It also provides onramps and off-ramps, foreign exchange, and crypto liquidity to users of various crypto projects including decentralized exchanges.Wyre was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.
XMTP — 2M+ web3 identities trust XMTP for secure & private messaging
Zapper — Your home to web3. Explore wallets, NFTs, DeFi, Daos and more...

Wes Hall

Investment focus

FinTech, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Angel
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Hutsy — Hutsy is your go-to financial app, offering personalized financial guidance based on your unique situation. Our mission is to help you improve your financial health through tailored advice on spending, savings, credit building, investing, debt management, and more.
Easy Platter — Easy Platter Personal chefs prepare healthy, delicious custom cuisines in your kitchen for $7.75/Meal. Top-Rated Local Personal chefs prepare incredible meals per your dietary preferences. Sit back, relax while your affordable personal chefs prepare meals for you and your family in your kitchen or

Phil Gibson

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, InsurTech
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

YouSet — YouSet's online platform helps you find the best insurance coverage instantly. Get an insurance quote in 4 minutes and save up with YouSet.
QuickFacts — Insurance software for brokers. The first website they open in the morning. We save them up to 2 hours every day. Built by brokers for brokers.

Mike Broadfoot is the Founding Partner and Fellow at Creative Destruction Labs.

Investment focus

Credit, FinTech, Software
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Credit App — Credit App is a fintech company that operates a credit application platform. The platform is designed to manage billions of applications, ranging from automotive to residential rentals. It provides a secure and efficient way for consumers to apply for credit. The company also offers tools and capabilities that enable lenders of all sizes to processapplications. In addition to serving online lenders and automotive dealerships, Credit App also caters to residential landlords, providing a comprehensive solution for credit application management.

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.

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, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Code — Code is a Canadian payment platform provider that makes it simple for web developers to collect modest payments from consumers worldwide.
Bastion — Bastion blends the best of web2 and web3 technologies to broaden opportunities for organizations and their customers.
Story Protocol — Powering web3 narrative universes via story legos

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.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
Time.fun — Time.fun enables creators to tokenize and sell their time and allows creators to monetize direct interactions such as messages or calls.
SOON — SOON is building the highest throughput stack that allows for any SVM L2 to be deployed on any L1.

Evan Ferguson is the Chief Executive Officer of Quantifi. Evan Ferguson attended Western University.

Investment focus

Credit, FinTech, Software
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Credit App — Credit App is a fintech company that operates a credit application platform. The platform is designed to manage billions of applications, ranging from automotive to residential rentals. It provides a secure and efficient way for consumers to apply for credit. The company also offers tools and capabilities that enable lenders of all sizes to processapplications. In addition to serving online lenders and automotive dealerships, Credit App also caters to residential landlords, providing a comprehensive solution for credit application management.

Kain Warwick is the Co-Founder and CEO at blueshyft

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Australia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ammalgam — Ammalgam is a new primitive that integrates lending and trading into a single protocol known as a Decentralized Lending Exchange (DLEX).
EarthFast — EarthFast provides cryptocurrency front-end hosting solutions. It enables projects to build and deploy decentralized apps, providing a secure alternative to traditional cloud platforms.
Firewall — Firewall is building a security layer for Web3, including the Safe Sequencer and its modular components that mitigate smart contract hacks before they impact users. Backed by NIV, Breyer Capital and Hack VC.

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