Top 15 Fitness Angel Investors in Canada (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Arlene Dickinson
Angel
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2 | Canada, United States | Pre-Seed, Angel | Food and Beverage, Health Care, Wellness | $150k–$420k |
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Ndamukong Suh
Angel
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2 | United States, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Marketplace, Real Estate, Consumer Goods | $717k–$20M |
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Jean-François Grenon
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Computer, Machine Learning | $717k–$4.7M |
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Jacky Chen
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States, China | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $362k–$3.1M |
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Greg Malpass
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | Fitness, Wellness, Health Care | |
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Marc Altshuller
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed, Angel | Mobile, Apps, Health Care | |
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Jim Estill
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed, Angel | Apps, Beauty, Mobile | |
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Hans Knapp
Angel
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1 | Canada | Series A, Seed, Angel | Software, Health Care, Industrial Automation | $603k–$16M |
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David Grutman
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada | Series A, Seed, Series B | Food and Beverage, Nutrition, Snack Food | $2M–$87M |
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Paul Geyer
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Fitness, Wellness | $1.1M–$6M |
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Ray Muzyka
Angel
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1 | Canada, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Software, Information Technology | $320k–$2.5M |
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Connor McDavid
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | Sports, Fitness, Software | |
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Jayson Tatum
Angel
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1 | Canada, Portugal, United States | Seed, Series B | Sports, Information Technology, Fitness | |
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Mitch Marner
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | Sports, Fitness, Software | |
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Darrell Kopke
Angel
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1 | Canada | Seed | Fitness, Wellness, Health Care | |
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Dickinson, owner and CEO of Venture Communications, a company she grew from a small, local firm to one of the largest independent agencies in Canada, is also the CEO of District Ventures and Youinc.com. Companies all aimed at helping market, fund and grow entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial companies. She is a two times best-selling author,accomplished speaker and is best known to Canadians as one of the venture capitalists on the award-winning CBC series’ Dragons’ Den.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Health Care, Wellness
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Angel $200k–$420k; Pre-Seed $150k–$225k
- Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aku Spike — Aku delivers a high-end self acupressure experience anywhere, anytime. Stress relief, relaxation, and treatment for sore back, neck aches, joint pain and more.
- Vertiball — The precision massager that makes your back accessible in a way like never before. Our patent pending suction mounting system to mount onto walls and other flat surfaces. The technology allows you to place the device at specific heights giving you complete control over your sore, tense muscles.
- PilotsFriend West — Precision crafted by bio-scientists and nutritionists, originally made for active duty jet pilots, PilotsFriend is a vitalizing energy tonic that promotes optimal concentration, performance, and health.
Ndamukong Ngwa Suh is an engineer, entrepreneur, investor, and all-pro defensive lineman for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Suh strives to inspire the next generation of young athletes and “unexpected” investors to create generational wealth through continued smart investment decisions.
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- Industry: Marketplace, Real Estate, Consumer Goods
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $717k–$7.7M; Series A $5.8M–$15M; Series B $6M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- XSET — XSET is the world's most diverse, innovative, socially conscious Esports "SET" ever assembled. Style, Substance and Victory! The Future is Set. #RepTheSet
- Looped — Looped is the ultimate virtual venue for interactive live streaming and virtual video call meet & greet experiences. Our platform connects creators and fans on a global level.
- Momentous — Momentous is a human performance company dedicated creating no-compromise products and tools that support the endless improvement of personal performance.
Jean François Grenon brings more than 25 years of expertise in the telecom and wireless space. Prior to forming Vectrad Networks and then NTF-Capital in 2003, Jean-François was Chairman and CEO of Innova Corporation, a company he led folllowing its listing on the NASDAQ.Jean-François graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal andholds a Harvard Business School MBA.He sits on the board of several innovation driven corporations including Inter-Mobile S.A.S, a NexTFund portfolio company.
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- Industry: Software, Computer, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Series A $717k–$4.7M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PlayFitt — PlayFitt is a fitness platform using experience in Sports Analytics, Machine Learning, Video Games.
- IntelliSports — IntelliSports is a Montreal based technology company that is combining real world sports with a digitally engaging experience and A.I. to create real world gaming.At IntelliSports they firmly believe that getting healthy should be as much fun as Levelling Up in your favourite video game. They are using their experience in Sports Analytics, MachineLearning, Video Games and mass market consumer technology to create a fitness platform where users can train, group up, compete and enjoy many of the most engaging elements of modern video games.
- Sollum Technologies — Sollum Technologies is offers greenhouse producers the only smart LED lighting solution which dynamically reproduces the full spectrum of the sun’s natural light. It is based in Montréal (Québec, Canada), where its design, development and manufacturing activities are concentrated. It works closely with its clients to modulate and create recipesadapted to the growth cycle of each product, regardless of its native climate in the world and the location of the greenhouse. Sollum’s lighting solutions thereby provide unparalleled value in terms of energy savings, productivity and superior produce quality through a flexible, adaptive and easy-to-use application, with great respect for the environment.
Jacky is dedicated to angel investment and has built up a portfolio of more than thirty startup companies in Canada and the US. His target investments are the early-stage B2B companies with disruptive technologies and business potential in enterprise software, information technologies, MedTech, and Advanced Manufacturing.Jacky has acquiredconcrete business experiences as a successful founder in the startup ecosystem and an executive of Fortune 500 companies over two decades. His remarkable accomplishments range from building startups from scratch to leading a billion-dollar business with the leverage of 14,000 enterprise channel partners. The unique journey has shaped Jacky's outstanding of investing in early startups.Jacky holds the degrees of Mater's E.E. and MBA, and he graduated from CEIBS and The Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $362k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Workwolf — Workwolf is a Toronto-based start-up with a management team who has led 7 start-ups, had 2 successful exits, and has taken a company public with a $1.8B IPO. Workwolf CEO Erik Simins is an SME in HR who previously founded MAGNUS HRS, a staffing company now servicing over 150 enterprise customers. The technology at Workwolf solves two of the biggestpain points in employment: applicant filtration and verification, and does so by empowering users to identify better candidates faster. Winner of global awards in both 2020 and 2021 for innovation and market potential, Workwolf is ramping up for its multi-national roll-out with ManpowerGroup in September that will coincide with a $4.5M Seed financing round.
- Agile Devices — Agile Devices offer catheter-based interventional procedures helping patients during a stroke. It helps medical practitioners reduce the procedure time to respond to time bound emergencies.
- Traction Technology Partners — Traction is a powerful SaaS collaboration platform for evaluating, adopting and managing new technologies across the enterprise. The platform includes Project Management and CRM tools designed specifically for enterprise teams tasked with discovering and evaluating new technologies. Traction is used by IT, Innovation and Corp Dev teams toaccelerate their digital transformation projects, and to speed up the way they find, manage, and adopt new technologies. Traction also offers On-Demand Research services delivered through its platform.
Greg founded Traction on Demand, a Burnaby-based cloud technology consultancy and software development firm, in 2006. His original intention was to serve a small number of clients by helping them unite their sales and marketing teams; however, Traction has since grown into a nationally-recognized brand with offices and 250+ employees across NorthAmerica. It is now ranked as one of the continent’s fastest growing technology companies. Greg’s commitment to workplace culture and community has landed Traction on Demand on Canada’s Top 10 Best Places to Work list for the past three years. Additionally, Traction is a current finalist for Deloitte’s Best Managed Companies in Canada. Individually, Greg has been recognized for both his unconventional leadership style and expertise in cloud computing and data. In 2013, Business in Vancouver named him one of the Top Forty Under 40, awarding him once again with CEO of the Year in 2016.
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- Industry: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Stoko design — Get the same level of joint support as a rigid knee brace in the form of a compression tight. Covered by insurance. Fast & free shipping. Hassle-free returns. Backed by orthopedic surgeons. Recommended by Olympians.
Marc Altshuller is the President and CEO at Varicent. He attended Schulich School of Business - York University.
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- Industry: Mobile, Apps, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ritual — Delivery & takeout from the best local restaurants. Providing over 15,000 restaurants globally with digital solutions to help them serve up their best.
- Plasticity Labs — Plasticity offers predictive workforce analytics and reporting on the health, happiness and productivity of people and teams. Based on the findings of the Workforce Analytics, customers can turn on the complete platform which includes personal behavioral training to optimize people and build better habits aimed at improving the predictedperformance scoring and helping people to better handle the realities of work and life. Plasticity is the only workforce analytics engine that combines explicit employee data, company performance data, and open data to understand and predict the full range of effects on the employee's ability to perform at their best. Connect your HRIS, HCM, or CRM and start actually measuring the ROI of people and culture, health and wellness, and learn how the weather might effect your next quarters results.
- Tacit Innovations — Digital ordering done right. With Tacit Corporation, you can get more orders by offering a seamless digital ordering experience.
Jim Estill founded EMJ Data in 1979 and grew the company to $350,000,000 in sales. Jim sold EMJ to SYNNEX in September 2004 and became CEO of SYNNEX Canada growing sales from $800,000,000 to $2 Billion in May 2009. Jim was one of the founding board members of RIM where he served for 13 years.
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- Industry: Apps, Beauty, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PumpUp — Pump Up turns messy workflows into governed AI agents with rules, approvals, audit trails, and human review built in.
- Well.ca — Well.ca is Canada's online destination for health, beauty and baby products and offers over 40,000 products with free shipping on all orders over $29. They also boast Canada's largest online assortment of Green & Natural products. With offices and a warehouse located in Guelph, Ontario, and an office in downtown Toronto, Well.ca is aproudly Canadian company that focuses on giving customers a simple and hassle-free shopping experience.
Hans co-founded Yaletown Venture Partners and brings over 15 years of legal counsel, corporate governance, turn-around, and investing experience to the Yaletown team. Hans manages Yaletown's investment in Redlen Technologies, Equicare Health, Genologics, Thetus, and Mixpo. In addition, as Yaletown's General Counselhe directs ourfirm's investment transactions, operations and legal affairs. Prior to Yaletown, Hans was Vice President of Investments and Corporate Counsel for Brigill Investments, a private Vancouver-based venture capital firm. Earlier in his career he practiced law in the commercial litigation group of Borden Ladner Gervais and held a judicial clerkship at British Columbia's highest court, the BC Court of Appeal. A recipient of Business in Vancouver's "Top 40 Under 40" award, Hans has B.A. and LLB degrees from the University of British Columbia and is called to the Bar of British Columbia.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Industrial Automation
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $603k–$1M; Series A $4.5M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow
Portfolio highlights
- VitaminLab — Looking for personalized vitamins based on your health goals, DNA or blood? Choose how you want to formulate and get an all-in-one formula just for you.
- ePACT Network — ePACT will improve emergency preparedness across North America. By connecting every home and organization with shared information and resources, ePACT will have a positive impact on the safety of our communities. Its benefits will encourage users to adopt and share the system, while its tools help North Americans manage unexpected situations.
- Circle Cardiovascular Imaging — Explore advanced cardiovascular imaging software. Enhance diagnosis & clinical workflows with our AI-driven solutions. Contact us today!
David Grutman
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Nutrition, Snack Food
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $2M–$3M; Series A $7M–$87M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Immi — Rich, satisfying ramen with bold flavor. Packed with protein and fiber, with fewer carbs.
- Skinny Dipped Almonds — We don't Sugar Coat. We SkinnyDip.
- Rob’s Backstage Popcorn — Rob's Backstage Popcorn was born backstage with the Jonas Brothers and now they are sharing it with the world. Made with a secret recipe, we guarantee you've never tasted popcorn like this before. Available for sale on eatrobs.com and at select Live Nation venues on the 2021 Remember This Tour.
Paul Geyer, a successful Medtech Entrepreneur and experienced Board member. Over the past 20 years Paul founded and led two companies through their growth phase, in one case to a successful private exit and in the other case through growth as a public company with numerous acquisitions. Both companies have grown to be anchor medical devicecompanies in the Vancouver area, employing more than 350 people.In 1991 he founded Mitroflow International Inc., a tissue heart valve company. Paul grew the company from 9 employees to more than 125 employees in 1999. In 1999 Paul sold Mitroflow to Sulzer Medica, for more than $50 mil. Paul's leadership resulted in Mitroflow growing to more than 200 employees, making it one of the largest medical devices companies in the Vancouver area. In 2001 Paul started Medical Ventures, a new specialty vascular device company where he is currently Chairman of the Board. From its inception to June 2008, Geyer held the position of CEO at Medical Ventures (now Neovasc) and was responsible for raising over $40 million in Equity financing and growing the company’s product portfolio through internal development and the acquisition of 3 other companies. In 2008 Paul began focusing on sharing is expertise to assist other Entrepreneurs to build successful businesses, through his involvement as a mentor or Board member. He also focused on building the local community through his involvement as a Board member of BC technology industry association, along with a number of non-profit community based organizations. Paul is actively engaged as a Philanthropist, as Chairman of the Board of Social Venture Partners Vancouver, involved with Science World, Entrepreneurship at UBC, Project Somos Children’s Village and other organizations.Paul is currently the CEO of LightIntegra Technology Inc., a spin-off from Canadian Blood Services which has developed the ThromboLux technology, used to determine platelet quality for blood transfusions.
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- Industry: Health Care, Fitness, Wellness
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Stoko design — Get the same level of joint support as a rigid knee brace in the form of a compression tight. Covered by insurance. Fast & free shipping. Hassle-free returns. Backed by orthopedic surgeons. Recommended by Olympians.
- Arbutus Medical — Arbutus Medical manufactures medical devices that simplifies orthopedic surgery and reduce the cost of healthcare to help treat patients worldwide.
- HeadCheck Health — HEADCHECK HEALTH simplifies the process of executing and monitoring concussion protocols. Learn more!
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Originally trained as a medical doctor, Dr. Ray Muzyka cofounded BioWare, a video game development studio focusing on story and character, in the early 1990s. He practiced emergency/family medicine for two years full time, with medicine transitioning to part-time over the following decade as he focused on his role as BioWare’s CEO. BioWare wasacquired by Electronic Arts in 2007, and Dr. Muzyka took on the roles of Senior Vice President at Electronic Arts and General Manager of EA’s BioWare division, which grew over the next five years to span eight development locations worldwide with about 2000 staff (1400 full time). He retired from video games in October 2012, with his third “career chapter” at ThresholdImpact, where he focused on sustainable, profitable impact investing: mentoring and angel investing in information technology, new media, and medical innovations with social entrepreneurs. An active angel investor and entrepreneurial mentor, Dr. Muzyka is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization, the A100, the Ashoka Support Network, and the Board of Governors of the University of Alberta (serving as Chair of the Human Resources Committee and on the Learning and Discovery Committee and as a member of the University of Alberta Advancement Council). He is Chair of the University of Alberta’s entrepreneur Venture Mentoring Service, a venture advisor at iNovia Venture Capital, and a member of the Alberta Research and Innovation Advisory Committee and the Alberta Premier’s Advisory Committee on the Economy. He also serves on a number of private company boards. He previously served on the board of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences from 2001-2008 and was on the Board of Trustees of the Stollery Children’s Health Foundation from 2012-2015. He was inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences’ Hall of Fame in 2011 and received the International Game Developers’ Choice Awards 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Muzyka received the inaugural Alumni Innovation Award in 2015 from the University of Alberta. He additionally was named as the 2017 Allard Chair in Business at the MacEwan University’s School of Business and as an Honorary Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary Club International in 2016, in recognition for his philanthropic efforts. Other awards include entry into Canada’s Top 40 under 40 and Ernst and Young’s 2001 Entrepreneur of the Year (IT, Prairies).He obtained his Bachelor of Medical Science from the University of Alberta in 1990, his Doctorate of Medicine from there in 1992, and his MBA from the University of Western Ontario (Ivey School of Business) in 2001.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $320k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $320k–$1.9M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
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.
Connor McDavid
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- Industry: Sports, Fitness, Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- TheProgram.ai — Gamifying Wellness For Your Community Engage your community with Wellnify.ai, the all-in-one white-label wellness solution that uses the power of gamification and the science of behaviour change to foster healthier, happier communities. Engage your workforce, students, fans, athletes, or the general public effortlessly. Request Demo View Pricing (Coming Soon) Drag Why Choose Wellnify? Wellnify leverages
Jayson Tatum
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- Industry: Sports, Information Technology, Fitness
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Canada, Portugal, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- TMRW Sports — TMRW Sports is harnessing technology to build modern approaches to sports, media, and entertainment.
- TheProgram.ai — Gamifying Wellness For Your Community Engage your community with Wellnify.ai, the all-in-one white-label wellness solution that uses the power of gamification and the science of behaviour change to foster healthier, happier communities. Engage your workforce, students, fans, athletes, or the general public effortlessly. Request Demo View Pricing (Coming Soon) Drag Why Choose Wellnify? Wellnify leverages
- 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.
Mitch Marner
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- Industry: Sports, Fitness, Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- TheProgram.ai — Gamifying Wellness For Your Community Engage your community with Wellnify.ai, the all-in-one white-label wellness solution that uses the power of gamification and the science of behaviour change to foster healthier, happier communities. Engage your workforce, students, fans, athletes, or the general public effortlessly. Request Demo View Pricing (Coming Soon) Drag Why Choose Wellnify? Wellnify leverages
Darrell Kopke is a Director, CDL-Vancouver at Creative Destruction Lab. He attended The University of British Columbia.
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- Industry: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Stoko design — Get the same level of joint support as a rigid knee brace in the form of a compression tight. Covered by insurance. Fast & free shipping. Hassle-free returns. Backed by orthopedic surgeons. Recommended by Olympians.
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