Top 15 Fitness Angel Investors in Canada in May 2026
Top 15 Fitness Angel Investors in Canada in May 2026
| Investor | Fitness Canada investments |
|---|---|
| Arlene Dickinson | 2 |
| Ndamukong Suh | 2 |
| Mark Mastrov | 1 |
| Jean-François Grenon | 1 |
| Connor McDavid | 1 |
| Jacky Chen | 1 |
| Jayson Tatum | 1 |
| Mitch Marner | 1 |
| Greg Malpass | 1 |
| Darrell Kopke | 1 |
| Marc Altshuller | 1 |
| Aditya Bali | 1 |
| Jim Estill | 1 |
| Hans Knapp | 1 |
| David Grutman | 1 |
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Find investors — It's Free!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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- Food and Beverage, Health Care, Wellness
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Cyder — Cyder is an end-to-end loyalty platform that allows credit unions to seamlessly issue, redeem, and integrate white-labeled rewards into everyday banking.
- 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.
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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- Marketplace, Real Estate, Consumer Goods
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada
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.
Mr. Mark S. Mastrov serves as the Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer at Fitness Holdings Worldwide, Inc. Mr. Mastrov serves as a Founding Partner at Steve Nash Fitness World, Inc. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of 24 Hour Fitness USA, Inc. until October 2006. He is considered an innovator and visionary within the health andfitness industry. Mr. Mastrov started 24 Fitness in 1983. From there, he built a fitness empire of more than 420 clubs located in 16 U.S. States, Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore. Recently, he founded the New Evolution Fitness Company (NEFC). Mr. Mastrov is the Chairman of New Evolution Ventures, which he co-founded. He serves as the Chairman of the Board of 24 Hour Fitness USA, Inc. He has been a Director of Netpulse, Inc. since March, 2011.
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- Fitness, Health Care, Apps
- Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Aviron — Aviron Ltd engages in the research and development of specific antiviral agents against chronic Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infection. The company has strategic alliances with CHEMRAR Hi-Tech Center, Chemical Diversity Research Institute, and DRUGS TECHNOLOGY, Ltd. Aviron Ltd was founded in 2010 and is based in Moscow, Russian Federation.
- Fitplan — Fitplan partners with an ever-growing team of world-class fitness icons, athletes, and professional trainers. They create exclusive training programs & meal plans that you can access through Fitplan.
- Sequoia Games — Sequoia Games is a team of all-stars working together to bring to life your favorite games. We combine professional sports with the latest technology and leadership with passion. What you get is greatness.
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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- Software, Computer, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Canada
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- 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.
Connor McDavid
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- Sports, Fitness, Software
- Seed
- Canada
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- 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
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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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, United States, China
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- 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.
Jayson Tatum
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- Sports, Information Technology, Fitness
- Funding Round, Seed, Series B
- Canada, Portugal, United States
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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- Sports, Fitness, Software
- Seed
- Canada
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
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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- Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
- Seed
- Canada
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- 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.
Darrell Kopke is a Director, CDL-Vancouver at Creative Destruction Lab. He attended The University of British Columbia.
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- Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
- Seed
- Canada
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- 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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- Mobile, Apps, Health Care
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Canada
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- 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.
I build products and companies that impact daily lives and want to bring these ideas to life as fast as possible. I also advise, mentor and invest in startups to help others makes this a reality. Currently COO of KitchenMate, where we're on a mission to enable access of nutritious meals for everyone (Techstars Toronto 2018).Formerly theco-founder of BufferBox (uWaterloo Velocity, Y Combinator S'12, acquired by Google) and PM @ Google X - Robotics.
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- Sports, Fitness, Big Data
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Canada
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- Lumotune — We are creating a platform to transform the world’s glass into digital displays.
- TritonWear — TritonWear builds the world’s most accurate sports wearable and the only one that provides personalized, AI-based auto-coaching driven by an individual's data. By addressing the largest problem plaguing the projected $15B fitness and sports wearables market - inaccurate data and no actionable feedback - TritonWear has taken a unique positionin the market.
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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- Apps, Beauty, Mobile
- Seed, Angel
- Canada
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- 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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- Software, Health Care, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- Canada
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- 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.
- Nanoprecise Sci Corp — Predictive Maintenance, Automated Ai Based Predictive Maintenance, Machine Doctor, Wireless Industrial Iot Sensors, Artificial Intelligence in Maintenance, Scaling Iot Solutions
David Grutman
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- Food and Beverage, Nutrition, Snack Food
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada
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- 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.
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